| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Boom.[Websters]
2. To be barrelled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have roared or pealed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be armed or limbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have poled, beamed, staffed, sparred or barred. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be advanced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have thundered, crashed or banged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be flighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have staked, posted or strutted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have hummed or growled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb boom.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (boom) | 1. Make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall".[Wordnet]. 2. Hit hard.[Wordnet]. 3. Be the case that thunder is being heard.[Wordnet]. 4. Make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song".[Wordnet]. 5. Grow vigorously; "business is booming".[Wordnet]. 6. Grow stronger; "The economy was booming".[Wordnet]. 7. Hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer".[Wordnet]. 8. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.[Websters]. 9. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.[Websters]. 10. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.[Websters]. 11. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.[Websters]. 12. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.[Websters]. 13. To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.[Websters]. 14. Base verb from the following inflections: booming, boomed, booms, boomer, boomers, boomingly and boomedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BOOMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Specialty Definition: boom
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | 1: 1) A floating device used to contain oil on a body of water. 2) A piece of equipment used to apply pesticides from ground equipment such as a tractor or truck. (See: sonic boom.). (references) | 2: A floating device used to contain oil on a body of water. (references) | |
| Building & Civil Engineering | 1: A chain of logs, drums or pontoons secured end to end and floating on the surface of a reservoir so as to divert floating debris, trash and logs. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A floating barrier across a river or harbor mouth, or to encircle an oil slick to limit the spread of pollution; nonsubmersible length of cushion stretched on the surface of the sea or body of water to surround and circumscribe an oil slick or similar pollutant; a floating device that is used to contain oil on a body of water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Environment | 1. A floating device used to contain oil on a body of water. 2. A piece of equipment used to apply pesticides from a tractor or truck. (references) | ||
| Finance | 1: Rise of prices, favoring bulls. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Rise of prices, favouring bulls. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| General | Adjustable support for positioning microphones or lighting fixtures. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geology | A floating log or similar element designed to dampen surface waves or control the movement of drift. (references) | ||
| Health | Marijuana. (references) | ||
| Industry | A line of connected floating timbers across a river or enclosing an area of water to keep saw logs together. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Boom A sudden and great demand of a thing, with a corresponding rise in its price. The rush of a ship under press of sail. The word arises from the sound of booming or rushing water. 2: "The boom was something wonderful. Everybody bought, everybody sold."- Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi, chap. 57. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | 1: Of a crane, the arm, fixed or moveable, that handles the load. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A long beam or spar projecting from near to the derrick or hinge casting of a power crane or shovel, and guiding and sustaining the load that is raised from its outer end. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mining | 1: See irrigation, sprinkler irrigation systems, boom. (references) | 2: A. A spar or beam projecting out over the drill floor from the tripod or derrick, by means of which heavy drill tools and equipment may be moved and safely handled b. A long, adjustable steel arm on a drill jumbo on which drifter or other types of pneumatic drills are mounted c. A cantilevered or overhanging member or structure that supports or contains the component parts of a conveyor. It may be fixed, hinged, or pivoted. d. A pipe fixed across the last supports in a tunnel face to anchor the tail sheave of a scraper loader installation e. In a revolving shovel, a beam hinged to the deck front, supported by cables f. Any beam attached to lifting or excavating equipment. See also:dragline g. Any heavy beam that is hinged at one end and carries a weight-liftingdevice at the other. (references) | |
| Physics | Either the microphone will be worn by the announcer or it will be on a --. . . . He will trust. . . the -- operator who positions the mike above his head. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Post & Telecom | In the ERMES measurement arrangement: horizontal device on which the substitution antenna is mounted. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: A body of round timber, loose (i. e. not in bundles or rafts), in the process of being floated down a waterway from forest to mill or shipping point. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A general name given to a projecting spar or pole that provides an outreach for extending the foot of sails, or mooring boats, handling cargo. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: Spar used to extend the foot of a sail. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: boom
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Baby boom | The larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Baby boom | A baby boom is any period of greatly increased birth rate within temporal and usually geographical bounds. Many such instances have been recorded in human history and are often caused by uplifting factors such as good harvests, victories in sport or war, or just due to superstition. Persons born during this time of love are often called baby boomers. (references) | ||
| Boom (sailing) | 1. The outhaul runs along the boom and the back corner of the sail (the clew) aftward. Modern sails are cut so that the outhaul is also able to pull the clew downwards towards the boom. Hauling in on the outhaul increases foot tension in the main sail. (references) | ||
| Boom (source port) | Boom was a port of the Doom source code by TeamTNT (who also made the Evilution level set in Final Doom). Boom fixed numerous software glitches and added numerous other software enhancements into the engine to such a degree that its additions have been incorporated into most modern day Doom engines (such as ZDoom and Doom Legacy). (references) | ||
| Boom and bust | In economics, the term boom and bust refers to the movement of an economy through economic cycles due to changes in aggregate demand. (references) | ||
| Boom Boom (video games) | Boom Boom was the sub-boss of every fortress in Super Mario Bros. 3. This boss had a koopa-like physique. (references) | ||
| Boom box | A portable stereo. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Boom Chicago | Boom Chicago is an improvisational theater, founded in Amsterdam in 1993 by group of American tourists, who named it after their hometown. Although many visitors believe the theater to be European, it is purely American based; as a matter of fact for a long time city of Amsterdam was refusing to include it the venue into the official list of Dutch theaters, because Boom Chicago was considered "foreign". (references) | ||
| Boom Crash Opera | Boom Crash Opera formed in Melbourne (Australia) in 1985 around the songwriting partnership of Richard Pleasance (Guitar/Bass/Vocals 1985 - 1992) and Peter Farnan (Guitar/Bass/Keys/Vocals) Boom Crash Opera also includes Dale Ryder (Lead Vocals), Peter Maslen (Drums), Greg 'Spock' O'Conner (Keys/Guitar) and Ian Tilley (Bass/Vocals 1992 - Present). (references) | ||
| Boom gate | A boom gate is a bar, or pole pivoted in such a way as to allow the boom to block vehicular access through a controlled point. Typically the tip of a boom gate rises in a vertical arc to a near vertical position. Boom gates are often counterweighted, so the pole is easily tipped. Boomgates are often paired either end to end, or offset appropriately to block traffic in both directions. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: boom
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Baby boom | Health | The period from the end of World War II through the mid-1960s marked by unusually high birth rates. (references) | |
| Baby boom | Statistics | Is a dramatic increase in fertility rates and in absolute number of births. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Boat boom | Transportation | A general name given to a projecting spar or pole that provides an outreach for extending the foot of sails, or mooring boats, handling cargo. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Boom attachment | Mechanical Engineering | An attachment fitted to the lifting carriage at a fork truck to enable hollow objects to be carried. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Boom cat | Mining | See: stripping-shovel operator. (references) | |
| Boom center pivot | Mining | See irrigation, sprinkler irrigation systems, boom center pivot. (references) | |
| Boom conveyor | Mining | Any type of conveyor mounted on a boom. (references) | |
| Boom ditch | Mining | A. The ditch from the dam used in booming. b. A slight channel cut down a declivity into which is let a sudden head of water to cut to the bedrock and prospect from the apex of anyunderlying lode. (references) | |
| Boom it down | Energy | Tighten chains around freight. (references) | |
| Boom man | Mining | In bituminous coal mining, one who manipulates the controls of a loading boom (conveyor) to regulate the height of the loading end of a boom, thus controlling the flow of coal from shaking screens or picking tables into railroad cars at the tipple. Also called boom operator; loader headman. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: boom
| 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 | |
| BOOM | English | Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
