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boom
1[ 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.
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.
- a period of rapid economic growth, prosperity, high wages and prices, and relatively full employment.
- a rise in popularity, as of a political candidate.
adjective
- caused by or characteristic of a boom:
boom prices.
boom
2[ boom ]
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.
- 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.
- (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)
- 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.
boom
1/ buːm /
verb
- to make a deep prolonged resonant sound, as of thunder or artillery fire
- to prosper or cause to prosper vigorously and rapidly
business boomed
noun
- a deep prolonged resonant sound
the boom of the sea
- the cry of certain animals, esp the bittern
- 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 Compare depression
- any similar period of high activity
- the activity itself
a baby boom
boom
2/ buːm /
noun
- nautical a spar to which a sail is fastened to control its position relative to the wind
- 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
- a pole, usually extensible, carrying an overhead microphone and projected over a film or television set
- 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
- the area so barred off
Other Words From
- booming·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of boom1
Word History and Origins
Origin of boom1
Origin of boom2
Idioms and Phrases
- lower the boom, to take decisive punitive action:
The government has lowered the boom on tax evaders.
More idioms and phrases containing boom
see lower the boom .Example Sentences
Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.
“I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.
But the dress was its own unapologetic sonic boom—and was immediately much-copied.
Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.
The current energy and industrial boom, according to Siemens President Joe Kaeser, “is a once-in-a-lifetime moment.”
There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.
“Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.
A church clock struck the hour of seven, its clangor intruding upon the silence only as a muffled boom.
It is a generally accepted axiom that a public man cannot afford to be modest in these go-ahead days of "boom."
And as I watched the canvas shake and heard it boom and flap I heartily welcomed it.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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