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Definition: Boot |
BootNoun1. Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg. 2. Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools (`boot' is British usage). 3. The swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a rush!"; "he does it for kicks". 4. Protective casing for something that resembles a leg. 5. An instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and leg. 6. The act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent". Verb1. Kick; give a boot to. 2. Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Boot \Boot\ (b[=oo]t), noun. [Old English bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, Anglo-Saxon b[=o]t; akin to Icelandic b[=o]t, Swedish bot, Danish bod, Gothic b[=o]ta, Dutch boete, German busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of English better, adjective]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine. This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon. The derivative `reboot' implies that the machine hasn't been down for long, or that the boot is a bounce (sense 4) intended to clear some state of wedgitude. This is sometimes used of human thought processes, as in the following exchange: "You've lost me." "OK, reboot. Here's the theory...." This term is also found in the variants `cold boot' (from power-off condition) and `warm boot' (with the CPU and all devices already powered up, as after a hardware reset or software crash). Another variant: `soft boot', reinitialization of only part of a system, under control of other software still running: "If you're running the mess-dos emulator, control-alt-insert will cause a soft-boot of the emulator, while leaving the rest of the system running." Opposed to this there is `hard boot', which connotes hostility towards or frustration with the machine being booted: "I'll have to hard-boot this losing Sun." "I recommend booting it hard." One often hard-boots by performing a power cycle. Historical note: this term derives from `bootstrap loader', a short program that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in from the front panel switches. This program was always very short (great efforts were expended on making it short in order to minimize the labor and chance of error involved in toggling it in), but was just smart enough to read in a slightly more complex program (usually from a card or paper tape reader), to which it handed control; this program in turn was smart enough to read the application or operating system from a magnetic tape drive or disk drive. Thus, in successive steps, the computer `pulled itself up by its bootstraps' to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstrap is usually found in ROM or EPROM, and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the disk, called the `boot block'. When this program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it. Source: Jargon File. |
Electrical Engineering | A form placed around wire termination of a multiple-contact connector to contain the liquid potting compound before it hardens. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A protective covering over any portion of a cable, wire, or connector in addition to the normal jacketing or insulation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An accessory, usually of a flexible material, designed to be placed around the terminations of a component as a protective housing. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | In heating and cooling system distribution ductwork, the transformation pieces connecting horizontal round leaders to vertical rectangular stacks. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | In a plough, the group of the parts associated with cutting, lifting and turning the furrow slice. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Refractory shape introduced into the furnace and partly immersed in glass to protect the gathering point from the furnace gases and the surface scum. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Boot I will give you that to boot, i.e. in addition. The Anglo-Saxon boot or bot means "compensation." (Gothic, bôta, profit.) "As anyone shall be more powerful ... or higher in degree, shall he the more deeply make boot for sin, and pay for every misdeed."- Laws of King Ethelred. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A projecting portion of a reinforced concrete beam, acting as a corbel to support the facing material, such as brick or stone; the lower end of a bucket elevator b. A leather or tin joint connecting the blast main with the tuyere or nozzle in a bloomery. c. A suspended enclosure in the nose of a tank protecting a portion of the surface and serving as a gathering opening d. The bottom of a bucket elevator, which receives feed for delivery intoan elevating bucket. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A boot is:Boots (Boots The Chemists) founded by John Boot is the dominant high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kngdom. The range of products now sold by Boots far exceeds the normal stock of a pharmacutical retailer and it now more akin to a department store.
- a type of footwear such as
- a Wellington boot
- football boot
- kinky boots
- tabi boots (split-toed boot)
- the sequence by which a computer is started (short for bootstrap). See booting.
- the compartment at the back of car in which luggage is stored (this is called the trunk in the USA).
A boots was a (usually very junior) servant whose particular task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes.
Boot can also be used as a verb, meaning "to kick", or as part of the phrase "to give somebody the boot", meaning to forcibly eject somebody from a room or institution.
In computing, booting is the process of starting up a computer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boot."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Boots (an instrument of torture). They were made of four pieces of narrow board nailed together, of a competent length to fit the leg. The leg being placed therein, wedges were inserted and hammered in, causing horrible lacerations and shattering the bones. This continued until the sufferer confessed or fainted.There was also another variant, a metal boot where the leg was inserted. Then the boot could be heated over hot coals or boiling tar or liquid metals could be poured in. In the medieval times, the boot was one of the most feared methods of torture.
From E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
- All your empirics could never do the like cure upon the gout as the rack in England or your Scotch boots. —Marston: The Malcontent.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boot (torture)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system.
Most computer systems can only execute code found in the memory (ROM or RAM); modern operating systems are mostly stored on hard disk drives. Just after a computer has been turned on, it doesn't have an operating system in memory. The computer's hardware alone cannot perform complicated actions of the operating system, such as loading a program from disk on its own; so a seemingly irresolvable paradox is created: to load the operating system into memory, one appears to need to have an operating system already installed.
The solution to the paradox involves using a special small program, called a bootstrap loader or boot loader. This program doesn't have the full functionality of an operating system, but is tailor-made specifically so that it is capable of loading enough other software for the operating system to start. Often, multiple-stage boot loaders are used, in which several small programs summon each other, until the last of them loads the operating system. The name bootstrap loader comes from the image of one pulling themselves up by one's bootstraps (see boot).
Early programmable computers had toggle switches on the front panel to allow the operator to place the bootloader into the program store before starting the CPU. This would then read the operating system in from an outside storage medium such as paper tape.
Pseudo-assembly code for the bootloader might be as simple as the following eight instructions:
0: set the P register to 8 1: check paper tape reader ready 2: if not ready, jump to 1 3: read a byte from paper tape reader to accumulator 4: if end of tape, jump to 8 5: store accumulator to address in P register 6: increment the P register 7: jump to 1In modern computers the bootstrapping process begins with the CPU executing software contained in ROM at a predefined address (the CPU is programmed to execute this software after reset without outside help). This software contains rudimentary functionality to search for devices eligible to participate in booting, and load a small program from a special section of the most promising device. The small program is most often not itself an operating system, but only a second-stage boot loader, such as Lilo or Grub. It will then be able to load the operating system proper, and finally transfer execution to it. The system will initialize itself, and may load device drivers and other programs that are needed for the normal operation of the OS.
The boot process is considered complete when the computer is ready to answer queries from the outside. Typical modern PCs boot in about a minute (of which about 15 seconds are taken by the preliminary boot loaders, and the rest - by the one loading the operating system), while large servers may take several minutes to boot and to start all services; to ensure high availability, they bring up some services before others.
Most embedded systems must boot almost instantly -- for instance, waiting a minute for the television to come up is not acceptable. Therefore they have their whole operating system in ROM or flash memory, so it can be executed directly.
In computing, a boot sequence is the operations the computer performs when it is switched on, which load an operating system.
Boot sequence on standard PC (IBM-PC compatible)
Upon starting, a personal computer's CPU runs the instruction located at the memory register FFFF0h of the BIOS. This memory register location is at the end of system memory. It contains a jump instruction that moves execution to the location of the BIOS start-up program. This program runs a Power-On Self Test (POST) and initializes devices. Then, the BIOS goes through a preconfigured list of devices until it finds one that is bootable. If it finds no such device, an error is given and the boot process stops. If the BIOS finds a bootable device, it loads and executes its master boot record (MBR). In most cases, the MBR checks the partition table for an active partition. If one is found, the MBR loads the partition's boot sector and runs it. This boot sector is operating system specific, however in most operating systems its main function is to load and execute a kernel, which continues startup.
Some other procesor have another kind of boot modes, most DSP include :
- Serial mode boot
- Parallel mode boot
- HPI boot
- Warm boot / Soft boot (as opposed to hard reboot) refer to an abridged start up routine which does not require that power be removed then reapplied.
Windows boot loader
In Windows XP the initializing file includes :
- [boot loader]
- timeout = 30
- default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINDOWS
- [operating systems]
- multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional" /fastdetect
See Also
- Boot disk and LiveCD
- Linux Loader (Lilo)
- GRUB
- NT Loader
External links
- Linux Boot Process.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Booting."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bootstrapping is the problem of starting a certain system without the system already functioning. It seems equally impossible as "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps" as Baron Münchhausen according to stories could. However, solutions, accordingly called bootstrapping exist; they are processes whereby a complex system emerges by starting simply and, bit by bit, developing more complex capabilities on top of the simpler ones.Bootstrapping describes different things in several domains.
Computing
Bootstrapping is generally a longer term for booting, or the process of starting up any computer.Bootstrapping can also refer to the development of successively more complex programming environments. The simplest environment will be, perhaps, a very basic text editor (e.g. ed) and an assembler program. Using these tools, one can write a more complex text editor, and a simple compiler for a higher-level language. and so on, until one can have a graphical IDE and an extremely high-level programming language.
Linguistics
Syntactic bootstrapping is the idea that children use syntactic knowledge they have developed to help learn what words mean -- semantics builds on top of syntax.
Biology
The idea of bootstrapping is significant in a number of fields in the biological scienes. The process by which a fertilised ovum develops into an embryo, particularly the way in which the nuclear genome is expressed differently in its various cells as these differentiate, is one example of bootstrapping. The evolution of progressively better adapted organs through natural selection in a lineage of organisms is another. Some biologists, including Alec Cairns-Smith, believe that the origin of life itself may have been a bootstrap process as one or more systems of biological information storage formed the foundation for successor systems that ultimately supplanted them culminating in the emergence of our current DNA-based system. For more details see the articles on embryology, ontogeny and phylogeny and RNA World.
Electronics
The term bootstrap has a number of meanings in electronics. In classical analog designs, a bootstrap circuit was an arrangement of components used to boost the input impedance of a circuit by using a small amount of positive feedback. This was often necessary in the early days of bipolar transistors, which inherently have quite a low input impedance. The need for such arrangements has largely been alleviated by the use of modern FET designs, except when ultra-high input impedances are required.Another meaning is in connection with the booting process of a computer or other complex system, where the underlying electronics must arrange for the orderly startup of the actval CPU and related electronics components. This is done long before the CPU is in a state where it can begin to execute software. Nowadays the bootstrap is coordinated by special integrated circuits that monitor the raw power supply and provide the relevant signals to enable the CPU and other chips accordingly.
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See also booting
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bootstrapping."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BOOT | English | Build,Own,Operate,Transfer | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BootSynonyms: automobile trunk (n), bang (n), charge (n), flush (n), iron boot (n), iron heel (n), kick (n), kicking (n), luggage compartment (n), rush (n), thrill (n), trunk (n), bring up (v), reboot (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Addition | Adverb: au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot, et cetera and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover. |
Clothing | Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery. |
Good | Noun: good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest. |
Importance | Verb: be important; Adjective:, be somebody, be something; import, signify, matter, boot, be an object; carry weight; (influence); make a figure; (repute); be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way, take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of regard, be worthy of consideration. |
Receptacle | Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack. |
Scourge | Triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The bloody glass came out, my bloody boot got stuck and I fell down the bloody ladder (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) I'm a dead man and buggered to boot! (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) All I ask is that you keep up with me. If you can't, then that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass (Crimson Tide; writing credit: Michael Schiffer. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revised portions of the dialogue) He got the boot! (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) I am a citizen of the universe - and a gentleman to boot! (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) | |
Lyrics | Stand up, round out, boot up and frown (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal) | |
Tongue Twisters | The boot black bought the black boot back. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kiss the Boot (1966) Das Boot von Torreira (1965) Drei Mann in einem Boot (1961) Showdown at Boot Hill (1958) Boot Polish (1954) | |
Song Titles | Talk About It (performing artist: Javelin Boot) History (performing artist: Javelin Boot) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dave Meyer tries to navigate a marsh using a "marsh boot". Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Prince Sultan Air Base's Boot Hill Cemetery is the final resting-place of more than 200 pairs of boots and other 4404th Wing Fuels Management Flight memorabilia. Boot Hill cemetery moved with the 4404th Wing from Dhahran Air Base to PSAB after the Khobar. |
 | Probably at Noumea, New Caledonia, as seen from USS Wasp (CV-7) on the eve of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion. Photo is dated 4 August 1942. Note red lead primer showing through the boot topping along her waterline and large crowd of men on her decks. Credit: NAVY. |  | In Dry Dock Number 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii, circa 1935. Note men painting her boot topping from stages rigged over the side, and outline of her anti-torpedo "blister" where it merges with her forward hull. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Another marker on Political Boot Hill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nazi boot stomping on world. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miss Beatrice Hudson in jousting boot, worn by King Henry IV of France, holding two shoes at the annual convention of the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Association at the Hotel Commodore, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ladies' button boot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tombstone in Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Calipering inner sole of boot to see if it matches pattern, Boot shop, Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Boot in the Morning" by Karl-Erik Bennion Commentary: "This is a child's boot in the neighbor's driveway. It's been there for a few days now. Looked interesting in the sun this morning as I left for work." | "Walking boot" by C.H. So Commentary: "A walking boot. ." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Football; punt; kicker; field goal; boot; kick; thud; . |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A great drinker to boot. |
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Health | Wearing long-sleeved shirts and tucking pants into socks or boot tops may help keep ticks from reaching the skin. Ticks are usually located close to the ground, so wearing high rubber boots may provide additional protection. (references) | |
Business | Several new road infrastructure projects are underway to utilize Egypt’s strategic location in the Middle East. Specifically, several boot highways with combined length of more than 2100 kilometers are to be established. (references) | |
CADAFE is also to release a tender for a BOOT (build-own-operate-transfer) arrangement for La Vueltosa, the last 514 MW phase of the 1,284 MW, four-dam Uribante-Caparo complex, located in Tachira, Merida and Barinas states in southwestern Venezuela. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Foreign companies also have won some major BOOT tenders. (references) |
Syria | The Ministry is considering the establishment of future power plants on the basis of BOOT (build, own, operate, and transfer). (references) | |
Egypt | Three BOOT power generation awards have been made to date, with one going to a joint venture with InterGen as the U.S. partner. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. 'Twas a pair of boots that the lady bought, And the salesman laced them tight To a very remarkable height -- Higher, indeed, than I think he ought -- Higher than can be right. For the Bible declares -- but never mind: It is hardly fit To censure freely and fault to find With others for sins that I'm not inclined Myself to commit. Each has his weakness, and though my own Is freedom from every sin, It still were unfair to pitch in, Discharging the first censorious stone. Besides, the truth compels me to say, The boots in question were made that way. As he drew the lace she made a grimace, And blushingly said to him: "This boot, I'm sure, is too high to endure, It hurts my -- hurts my -- limb." The salesman smiled in a manner mild, Like an artless, undesigning child; Then, checking himself, to his face he gave A look as sorrowful as the grave, Though he didn't care two figs For her paints and throes, As he stroked her toes, Remarking with speech and manner just Befitting his calling: "Madam, I trust That it doesn't hurt your twigs." B. Percival Dike |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Jones | Well, of course individuals at home do. When a young person comes to Bob Jones University he's coming, as it were, to a boot camp. We're training servants of Christ for his army, if you will. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The crime bill contains more money for drug treatment for criminal addicts and boot camps for youthful offenders. |
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| "Boot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.02% of the time. "Boot" is used about 1,446 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.02% | 1,288 | 6,132 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.84% | 128 | 28,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.8% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.28% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,446 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "boot" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Boot | Last name | 300 | 29,283 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Henry Boot PLC |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "boot": ankle boot ♦ army boot ♦ boot block ♦ boot camp ♦ Boot catcher ♦ Boot closer ♦ boot cover ♦ Boot crimp ♦ boot disk ♦ Boot hook ♦ boot it ♦ boot lace ♦ boot maker ♦ boot out ♦ boot polish ♦ boot round ♦ boot smb. ♦ boot smb. out ♦ boot sole ♦ boot top ♦ boot training ♦ boot tree ♦ boot up ♦ boot virus ♦ car boot sale ♦ chukka boot ♦ cold boot ♦ combat boot ♦ Congress boot ♦ cowboy boot ♦ denver boot ♦ desert boot ♦ die with one's boot on ♦ dual boot ♦ dust boot ♦ Elevator boot ♦ feeder boot ♦ football boot ♦ Fore boot ♦ galosh boot ♦ get the boot ♦ get the order of the boot ♦ give smb. the boot ♦ give smb. the order of the boot ♦ give the boot ♦ gum boot ♦ half boot ♦ hard boot ♦ hessian boot ♦ high boot ♦ hip boot ♦ in order of the boot ♦ iron boot ♦ jack boot ♦ jodhpur boot ♦ knee boot ♦ leather boot ♦ like old boot ♦ riding boot ♦ rubber boot ♦ ruffle of a boot ♦ sea boot ♦ ski boot ♦ soft boot ♦ the boot is on the other leg ♦ the leg of a boot ♦ thigh boot ♦ to boot ♦ top boot ♦ top of the boot ♦ warm boot ♦ Wellington boot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "boot": boot-and-brushing, boot-bindings, boot-black, boot-blacking, boot-blacks, boot-boy, boot-boys, boot-button, boot-clad, boot-cleaning, boot-closer, boot-crusher, boot-deep, boot-faced, boot-full, boot-heel, boot-iful, boot-in, boot-jack, boot-lace, boot-last, boot-leather, boot-leg, boot-legs, boot-licker, boot-licking, boot-maker, boot-makers, boot-marks, boot-polished, boot-prints, boot-repairers, boot-sales, boot-scraper, boot-shaped, boot-sprigs, boot-strap, boot-studs, boot-tapping, boot-time, boot-toe, boot-top, boot-up, boot-worn. | |
Ending with "boot": car-boot, flying-boot, re-boot. | |
Containing "boot": car-boot-sale. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hiking boot | 10,478 | window 98 boot disk | 414 |
boot | 4,853 | snow boot | 399 |
boot disk | 2,094 | military boot | 398 |
cowboy boot | 1,885 | danner boot | 389 |
boot camp | 1,622 | harley davidson boot | 389 |
motorcycle boot | 920 | puss in boot | 380 |
work boot | 916 | boot manager | 371 |
snowboard boot | 802 | high heel boot | 357 |
timberland boot | 760 | waterproof boot | 355 |
thigh high boot | 702 | girl boot | 335 |
wolverine boot | 535 | teen boot camp | 325 |
justin boot | 513 | barbecue boot camp | 323 |
western boot | 483 | black boot | 313 |
womens boot | 471 | rocky boot | 310 |
platform boot | 454 | ps2 boot disk | 300 |
red wing boot | 454 | man boot | 292 |
rubber boot | 445 | leather boot | 291 |
sexy boot | 435 | boot disk xp | 287 |
ski boot | 419 | boot yahoo | 284 |
window xp boot disk | 418 | boot disc ps2 | 281 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "boot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vend bagazhesh në karrocat, shoshone (flip-flops), shkelmoj (kick, lash, spurn), shkelm (kick, spurn), portbagazh (trunk), mbath çizme, kam dobi, këpucë me qafa, dobi (advantage, avail, benefit, expedience, expediency, gain, good, instrumentality, interest, use, utility, value), çizme (footgear, knee boot). (various references) | |
Arabic | مئزر (apron, brat, duster), غطاء واق (cocoon, panoply), حذاء طويل, حذاء (footgear, footwear, shoe), صندوق السيارة (trunk), صبي يعمل في الفندق, أطاح (bowl over, overthrow, sink, topple, tumble down), ركل (kick, stamp). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | isttsikítsikin. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уволнявам (cast, discard, discharge, dismiss, dispense, drop, fire, grass, lay off, muster out, release, relieve, remove, retire, sack, send away, separate, shelve, turn away), ритам (balk, fling, kick, lash, recoil, toe), от полза съм (advantage, bring the grist to the mill, profit), обувам обуща, новобранец (inductee, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, yard bird, zombie), ботуш, багажник (luggage carrier, rack, trunk), полза (account, advantage, avail, behoof, expedience, expediency, favour, good, interest, profit, use, utility, value, velvet), изритвам (kick out, spurn). (various references) | |
Chinese | 長靴 , 皮靴 (Boots). (various references) | |
Czech | zavazadlový prostor. (various references) | |
Danish | støvle. (various references) | |
Dutch | laars (high boot, hood, potette). (various references) | |
Esperanto | boto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | stivli. (various references) | |
Farsi | پوتین یاچکمه , چاره یافایده , لگدزدن (Hoof, Kick, Kickback, Poach), اخراج (Deport, Ejection, Eviction, Exclusion, Expultion, Ouster), باسرچکمه وپوتین زدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | saapas (hood, potette). (various references) | |
French | botte (high boot), coffre (box). (various references) | |
Frisian | lears. (various references) | |
German | Stiefel (boondockers, boot black, boots), urladen, Start (activation, blastoff, departure, kickoff, launch, lift off, liftoff, opening, runway, shot, start, starting, starting grid, starting line, starting post, take off, takeoff), kofferraum (luggage space, trunk). (various references) | |
Greek | μπότα (buskin). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | çizme. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגף (high boot, jackboot), לבעוט (despise, kick, trample), נדן עור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csizma (boots, high boots), bakancs (ankle boot, brogue), torok (gorge, jugular, pharynx, throat, throttle), tengerészújonc, spanyolcsizma (torture of the boot), puttony (dorsal, scoop), magas szárú cipő (high shoes, water boot), lábbeli (foot-gear, footwear), jégképződést gátló berendezés, garat (gorge, gullet, hopper, pharynx), csomagtartó (carrier rack, dickey, dicky, luggage rack, luggage-rack, trunk), újonc (apprentice, conscript, conscriptee, dog-face, draftee, freshman, freshmen, greener, inductee, neophyte, new comer, novice, noviciate, recruit, rookie, rooky, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro). (various references) | |
Icelandic | stígvél. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bot, sepatu bot, pemecatan (dismissal), menyalakan (enkindle, ignite), lars (especially military boots). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kamik. (various references) | |
Italian | stivale (high boot), portabagagli (boots, porter, rack, roof rack, trunk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブースター局 (booster station, boots). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブート . (various references) | |
Korean | 부트 (Boots). (various references) | |
Manx | bootys (buskin). (various references) | |
Maori | puutu. (various references) | |
Papago | chew shuhshk. (various references) | |
Papiamen | bota (vote), lars. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ootbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bota (high boot). (various references) | |
Romanian | bocanc (brogue), pune cizmele cuiva, profit (account, advantage, bargain, behoof, benefit, convenience, Favor, favour, gain, good, grist, hand, interest, job, profit, return, use, velvet, yield), gheatã (brogue, gaiter, galosh, shoe), folosi (affect, anticipate, apply, avail, benefit, dispose, employ, impress, make use of, occupy, practise, put forth, seize, stand smb. in good stead, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), folos (account, advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, catch, efficaciousness, emolument, gain, profit, service, stead, use, utility), fi concediat (get one's books, get the boot, get the mitten, get the sack), concedia (discard, discharge, dismiss, drum out, fire, give notice, pay off, put out, retire, sack, shelve, suspend, turn off), cizmã (bootee, jackboot, knee boot, thick), ciubotã, câştig (advantage, bargain, benefit, catch, draw, earnings, gain, godsend, hand, income, increment, lucre, penny, prize, proceeds, profit, return, revenue, share, use, velvet, windfall). (various references) | |
Russian | сапог (high boot, riding boot), надевать ботинки, ботинок (brogan, high shoe, shoe), багажник (carrier), пинок ногой. (various references) | |
Scottish | bòtuinn (a boot), bòt (a boot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udariti nogom (kick), čizma (wellington). (various references) | |
Spanish | bota (bootee), patada (kick, punt, stamp), maletero (porter, trunk), caña (bootleg, cane, fishing rod, glass, leg, marram-grass, noggin, pint, Reed, rod, shaft, shank, shin, stem). (various references) | |
Sranan | buta (shoe). (various references) | |
Swedish | stövel (knee boot, Wellington, welly), tjut (howl, roar, scream, screech, shriek, ululation, whoop, yawp, yowl), känga (balmoral). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bota. (various references) | |
Thai | รองเท้าบู๊ตกันน้ำสูงถึงสะโพก (นักตกปลามักจะสวม) (hip boot). (various references) | |
Turkish | bot (boat, buskin, rubber boat, rubber dinghi), bagaj (baggage, luggage, trunk, well), tepmek (chuck away, foot it, kick, scout, spurn, tuck), tekmelemek (give a kick, kick), tekme atmak (give a kick, hack, kick, kick in, spurn, toe), kovmak (ax, axe, banish, bounce, can, cashier, cast out, chuck out, dislodge, dismiss, drive away, drive out, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, exclude, exile, expel, fend off, fire, get rid of, give smb. the bag, give smb. the chuck, give smb. the gate, give smb. the push, give the sack, kick out, make a clean sweep of, order away, order out, out, pack off, repulse, sack, send away, shoo, shoo away, show out, show smb. the door, show the door, turf out, turn away, turn out), koruyucu tabaka (cocoon), çizme (buskin, drawing, top boot, wellingtons). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ьstesine (in addition), ьste (in addition), mesi, дdik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | увільняти, чобіт, черевик (Oxford, shoe), штурхнути чоботом, шкіряний чохол, колодки, вигода (accommodation, account, advantage, avail, behoof, capital, emolument, profit, spoil), новобранець (conscript, freshman, recruit, rookie, zombie), надівати черевики, бутси, допомагати (abet, accommodate, advantage, assist, avail, beet, benefit, bestead, boot out, cater, forward, lend a hand, oblige, promote, see through). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bị tống cổ ra, nữa (longer), mạnh mẽ (energetic, furious, fury, impetuous, lusty, manly, mightily, pithily, pretty, rousing, sinewy, sturdy, vibrant, violent, vivid), dữ dội (formidable, heavy, high, impetuous, keen, ravenous, rude, severse, thundering, towering, vehement, violent), đuổi ai, $to boot$ thêm vào đó. (various references) | |
Welsh | botas, llesa/u (advantage, avail, benefit), lles (advancement, advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, good, profit), esgid (shoe), elw (behoof, benefit, gain, possession, profit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calceus, caligae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai embantwn autwn eiV to ploion ekopasen o anemoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum ascendissent in naviculam cessavit ventus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & þa hy wæren on scype ge-swac sewind. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hadde stied in to the boot, the wynd ceessid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And assone as they were come in to ye shippe ye wynde ceassed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when they had come into the boat, the wind ceased. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when they had got into the boat, the wind went down. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 32 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakasakay na sila sa sakayan, ang hangin milurang. |
| Croatian | Kad uðoše u laðu, utihnu vjetar. |
| Danish | Og da de stege op i Skibet, lagde Vinden sig. |
| Dutch | En als zij in het schip geklommen waren, stilde de wind. |
| Finnish | Ja kun he olivat astuneet venheeseen, asettui tuuli. |
| French | Et ils montèrent dans la barque, et le vent cessa. |
| German | Und sie traten in das Schiff, und der Wind legte sich. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu keduanya naik ke perahu itu, dan angin pun reda. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah keduanya naik ke dalam perahu, maka berhentilah angin itu. |
| Manx Gaelic | As tra v'ad er n'gholl er-board y lhong, huitt yn gheay. |
| Maori | Ano ka eke raua ki te kaipuke, mutu pu te hau. |
| Norwegian | Og da de steg i båten, la vinden sig. |
| Portuguese | E logo que subiram para o barco, o vento cessou. |
| Rumanian | Wi dupq ce au intrat kn corabie, a stat vkntul. |
| Shuar | Tura kanunam Enkemáwarmatai nasesha menkakamiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, wakapanda mashuani, na upepo ukatulia. |
| Swedish | När de sedan hade kommit upp i båten, lade sig vinden. |
| Uma | Kangkahe' -ra hi rala sakaya, ncaliu ora-mi ngolu' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boot": bootable, bootblack, bootblacks, booted, bootee, bootees, booteries, bootery, booth, booths, bootie, booties, booting, bootjack, bootjacks, bootlace, bootlaces, bootleg, bootlegged, bootlegger, bootleggers, bootlegging, bootlegs, bootless, bootlessly, bootlessness, bootlessnesses, bootlick, bootlicked, bootlicker, bootlickers, bootlicking, bootlicks, boots, bootstrap, bootstrapped, bootstrapping, bootstraps, booty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boot": freeboot, gumboot, hardboot, jackboot, reboot, seaboot. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boot": freebooted, freebooter, freebooters, freebooting, freeboots, gumboots, hardboots, jackbooted, jackboots, rebooted, rebooting, reboots, seaboots, slyboots, tolbooth, tolbooths, tollbooth, tollbooths. (additional references) | |
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"Boot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bahot, baotou, bcot, beot, bicot, Binot, Biosoft, biot, Biott, Bitoo, Bitot, bivot, bloot, boet, Boeti, boft, bogt, boit, bojo, bont, booc, Booch, bood, boof, boog, booh, booj, boop, Boosh, boota, Boote, booti, boov, boowt, bopt, boqt, bort, Botb, botg, bott, Bouet, boutu, bouwt, bowt, Boxout, Boyt, broot, brot, Broto, bujt, bulot, buto, eboot, Obod, voot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boot" (pronounced buw"t) |
| 2 | -uw" t | acute, astute, Brut, brute, Bute, Butte, cahoot, chute, commute, compute, coot, cute, impute, dilute, dispute, disrepute, flute, fruit, hoot, jute, loot, lute, moot, mute, newt, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, reroute, root, salute, scoot, shoot, Shute, subacute, suit, toot, uproot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: boo, bot, oot, too. | |
-2 letters: bo, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: bhoot, boost, booth, boots, booty, robot, taboo. | |
+2 letters: betook, bhoots, blotto, bonito, boosts, booted, bootee, booths, bootie, boston, bottom, bouton, bowpot, hotbox, oboist, outbox, potboy, reboot, robots, taboos, tomboy. | |
+3 letters: bigfoot, biotope, biotron, blowout, bonitos, booklet, boomlet, boosted, booster, bootees, bootery, booties, booting, bootleg, bostons, botonee, bottoms, boutons, bowknot, bowpots, bowshot, boycott, eobiont, footboy, gumboot, oboists, obovate, postbox, postboy, potboil, potboys, reboots, robotic, robotry, rowboat, seaboot, tabooed, theorbo, tobacco, tombola, tombolo, tomboys, toolbox, towboat, webfoot. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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