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boom

[boom]

verb (used without object)

to make a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.

to move with a resounding rush or great impetus.

to progress, grow, or flourish vigorously, as a business or a city: Her business is booming since she enlarged the store.

verb (used with object)

to give forth with a booming sound (often followed by out): The clock boomed out nine.

to boost; campaign for vigorously: His followers are booming George for mayor.

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noun

a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.

the resonant cry of a bird or animal.

a buzzing, humming, or droning, as of a bee or beetle.

a rapid increase in price, development, numbers, etc.: a boom in housing construction.

10.

a period of rapid economic growth, prosperity, high wages and prices, and relatively full employment.

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11.

a rise in popularity, as of a political candidate.

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adjective

12.

caused by or characteristic of a boom: boom prices.

Origin:
1400–50; 1910–15 for def. 10; late Middle English bombon, bummyn to buzz; cognate with Dutch bommen, German bummen, orig. imitative

Related forms

boom·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
3. prosper, thrive, develop.

Example Sentences

The publishing boom is two decades in progress, she says.

How the current housing boom ends could decide the course of the entire world economy over the next few years.

Learn about the giant panda baby boom that is happening across the world.

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The publishing boom is two decades in progress, she says.

How the current housing boom ends could decide the course of the entire world economy over the next few years.

Learn about the giant panda baby boom that is happening across the world.

Averting the disruptive extremes of boom and bust can help bring about long-term growth.

By that time, the weak peso had created a growing tourism boom that had infused the city with new energy.

Teams of workers sing along with a straining boom box.

The distance-education boom has triggered a rise in online diploma mills.

Today that figure is one in four, a staggering cultural transformation that is fueling a boom in.

But perhaps the boom is the result of neither a nesting instinct, nor a desire to save money.

The boom has been gold for the provincial as well as the national.

The intended launch load is out on the free end of the boom and reaches velocities adequate for space-going purposes.

One contributing factor is the increased use of fertility drugs, which has led to a boom in multiple births.

Not because of a boom in public transit, but because of car-sharing services, which make owning a vehicle akin to.

Africa has not enjoyed the boom of foreign education providers that has occurred in other parts of the world.

The biofuels boom is causing a spike in food prices worldwide, hitting developing countries particularly hard, experts say.

The article is correct in describing the boom in demand for financial mathematical talent.

Many of those built during the first frenzied decades of the logging boom were simply abandoned.

But could the boom in these inexpensive, tiny notebooks be a.

Frequent reports discuss the population's low fertility rate and the unsustainable boom in new universities.

He attributes the boom to the area's enormous prairie dog colony.

After all, the chemical engineer wanted to make fuel from plants for the hydrogen economy that was supposed to boom about now.

Scientists expect a boom in bald eagles, bear and other creatures that gorge on salmon.

Well before the dot-com swoon, blogging began to boom.

More importantly, undergraduates had better options for employment during the boom economy.

West still ride cycles of boom and bust, but decades of rising environmental standards now demand that.

Scientists warn that a boom in crops such as corn for biofuel will only make matters worse.

Jaisalmer's tourist boom has only made matters worse.

Next was the boom that accompanies such a tight fit, with every touch of the cable sending shockwaves deep into my cochlea.

Chapman has overseen a recent boom at the university.

However bird groups deny the buzzard boom is at the expense of other species.

The boom eventually generated a billion dollars in gold.

Ben decided to slip his logs past the boom in the dark.

Isfahan's history is an epic cycle of fabulous boom and calamitous bust.

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noun

Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.

Aeronautics.

an outrigger used on certain aircraft for connecting the tail surfaces to the fuselage.

a maneuverable and retractable pipe on a tanker aircraft for refueling another aircraft in flight.

chord¹ (def. 4).

a chain, cable, series of connected floating timbers, or the like, serving to obstruct navigation, confine floating timber, etc.

the area thus shut off.

Machinery. a spar or beam projecting from the mast of a derrick for supporting or guiding the weights to be lifted.

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(on a motion-picture or television stage) a spar or beam on a mobile crane for holding or manipulating a microphone or camera.

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verb (used with object)

to extend or position, as a sail (usually followed by out or off).

to manipulate (an object) by or as by means of a crane or derrick.

verb (used without object)

to sail at full speed.

Idiom

10.

lower the boom, to take decisive punitive action: The government has lowered the boom on tax evaders.

Origin:
1635–45; < Dutch: tree, pole, beam

Related forms

boom·less, adjective

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World English Dictionary

boom¹ (buːm)

—vb
1.	to make a deep prolonged resonant sound, as of thunder or artillery fire
2.	to prosper or cause to prosper vigorously and rapidly: business boomed

—n
3.	a deep prolonged resonant sound: the boom of the sea
4.	the cry of certain animals, esp the bittern
5.	Compare depression a period of high economic growth characterized by rising wages, profits, and prices, full employment, and high levels of investment, trade, and other economic activity
6.	any similar period of high activity
7.	the activity itself: a baby boom

[C15: perhaps from Dutch bommen, of imitative origin]

boom² (buːm)

—n
1.	nautical a spar to which a sail is fastened to control its position relative to the wind
2.	a beam or spar pivoting at the foot of the mast of a derrick, controlling the distance from the mast at which a load is lifted or lowered
3.	a pole, usually extensible, carrying an overhead microphone and projected over a film or television set
4.	a. a barrier across a waterway, usually consisting of a chain of connected floating logs, to confine free-floating logs, protect a harbour from attack, etc
	b. the area so barred off

[C16: from Dutch boom tree, beam]

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

boom

mid-15c., earliest use was for bees and wasps, probably echoic of humming. The meaning "make a loud noise" is 15c. Cf. bomb. Boom box first attested 1978.

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boom

"long pole," 1540s, from Scottish boun, borrowed from Du. boom "tree, pole, beam," from a M.Du. word analogous to O.E. beam (see beam). The business sense (1873) is sometimes said to be from this word, from the nautical meaning "a long spar run out to extend the foot of a

sail;" a ship "booming" being one in full sail. But it could just as well be from boom (v.), on the notion of "suddenness."

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Slang Dictionary

boom definition

in.
to listen to music, as with a boom box. : If you're going to boom all the time, why don't you get some headphones?

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

boom

see lower the boom.