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boom

1  [boom]
Use booming in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to make a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
2. to move with a resounding rush or great impetus.
3. 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)
4. to give forth with a booming sound (often fol. by out): The clock boomed out nine.
5. to boost; campaign for vigorously: His followers are booming George for mayor.
–noun
6. a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
7. the resonant cry of a bird or animal.
8. a buzzing, humming, or droning, as of a bee or beetle.
9. 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.
11. a rise in popularity, as of a political candidate.
–adjective
12. caused by or characteristic of a boom: boom prices.
Origin:
1400–50; 1910–15 for def. 10; late ME bombon, bummyn to buzz; c. D bommen, G bummen, orig. imit.

Related forms:
boom⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
3. prosper, thrive, develop.

boom

2  [boom]
–noun
1. Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, esp. fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
2. Aeronautics.
a. an outrigger used on certain aircraft for connecting the tail surfaces to the fuselage.
b. a maneuverable and retractable pipe on a tanker aircraft for refueling another aircraft in flight.
c. chord 1 (def. 4).
3. a chain, cable, series of connected floating timbers, or the like, serving to obstruct navigation, confine floating timber, etc.
4. the area thus shut off.
5. Machinery. a spar or beam projecting from the mast of a derrick for supporting or guiding the weights to be lifted.
6. (on a motion-picture or television stage) a spar or beam on a mobile crane for holding or manipulating a microphone or camera.
–verb (used with object)
7. to extend or position, as a sail (usually fol. by out or off).
8. to manipulate (an object) by or as by means of a crane or derrick.
–verb (used without object)
9. 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; < D: tree, pole, beam

Related forms:
boomless, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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boom 1   (bōōm)   
v.   boomed, boom·ing, booms

v.   intr.

  1. To make a deep, resonant sound.

  2. To grow, develop, or progress rapidly; flourish: Business is booming.

v.   tr.

  1. To utter or give forth with a deep, resonant sound: a field commander booming out orders.

  2. To cause to grow or flourish; boost.

n.  

  1. A deep resonant sound, as of an explosion.

  2. A time of economic prosperity.

  3. A sudden increase, as in popularity.


[Middle English bomben, imitative of a loud noise.]
boom 2   (bōōm)   
n.  

  1. Nautical A long spar extending from a mast to hold or extend the foot of a sail.

  2. A long pole extending upward at an angle from the mast of a derrick to support or guide objects being lifted or suspended.

    1. A barrier composed of a chain of floating logs enclosing other free-floating logs, typically used to catch floating debris or to obstruct passage.

    2. A floating barrier serving to contain an oil spill.

    3. A spar that connects the tail surfaces and the main structure of an airplane.

    4. A long hollow tube attached to a tanker aircraft, through which fuel flows to another aircraft being refueled in flight.

  4. A long movable arm used to maneuver and support a microphone.

    1. A spar that connects the tail surfaces and the main structure of an airplane.

    2. A long hollow tube attached to a tanker aircraft, through which fuel flows to another aircraft being refueled in flight.

tr.v.   boomed, boom·ing, booms
To move or position using a crane: "The renegade logs somehow escaped while . . . the logs were boomed up into the mile-long rafts that ply these channels" (Jack Weatherford).

[Dutch, tree, pole, from Middle Dutch; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
boom

  1. 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?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

boom  (v.)
c.1440, earliest use was for bees and wasps, probably echoic of humming. The meaning "make a loud noise" is 15c. Boom box first attested 1978.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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