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Boom

//bum// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.

    "crash boom bang"

  2. 2
    Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.

    "Add one cup of hot water, wait a minute, and boom — your cup of ramen is ready."

  3. 3
    The sound of a bass drum beating.
  4. 4
    The sound of a cannon firing.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.
Noun
  1. 1
    A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

    "the boom of the surf"

  2. 2
    A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.

    "Tighten the outhaul and place the appropriate line in the cam cleat located on the boom about two feet back from the mast."

  3. 3
    any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring wordnet
  4. 4
    A rapid expansion or increase.

    "You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry."

  5. 5
    A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
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  1. 6
    a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set wordnet
  2. 7
    A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
  3. 8
    Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole). abbreviation, alt-of, broadly, ellipsis
  4. 9
    a deep prolonged loud noise wordnet
  5. 10
    Ellipsis of sonic boom. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  6. 11
    A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  7. 12
    a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) wordnet
  8. 13
    One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.

    "Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation."

  9. 14
    The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
  10. 15
    a state of economic prosperity wordnet
  11. 16
    An instance of booming. slang

    "Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant."

  12. 17
    A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.

    "I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success."

  13. 18
    A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.

    "The wooden upright was now standing in the middle of the floor, and the two booms were fitted into its grooved side and hoisted as high as hands could reach. [...] Two by two, one at each end, the students proceeded along the boom, hanging by their hands, monkey-wise. [...] Two by two the students somersaulted upwards on to the high boom, turned to a sitting position sideways, and then slowly stood up on the narrow ledge."

  14. 19
    A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  15. 20
    The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

    "Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon."

  2. 2
    To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.

    "to boom out a sail"

  3. 3
    grow vigorously wordnet
  4. 4
    To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. figuratively, transitive

    "I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich – or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. [...] “I'd give a tenner to have Aubrey Upjohn here at this moment.” “You can get him for nothing. He's in Uncle Tom's study.” Her face lit up. “He is?” [Aunt Dahlia] threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.”"

  5. 5
    To raise or lower with a crane boom. usually
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  1. 6
    hit with great force wordnet
  2. 7
    To flourish, grow, or progress. intransitive

    "The population boomed in recent years."

  3. 8
    make a deep hollow sound wordnet
  4. 9
    To make (something) boom. transitive

    "Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death."

  5. 10
    make a resonant sound, like artillery wordnet
  6. 11
    To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.

    "Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly[.]"

  7. 12
    be the case that thunder is being heard wordnet
  8. 13
    To cause a sonic boom. intransitive
  9. 14
    To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom. slang, transitive
  10. 15
    To publicly praise, to rally behind. US, obsolete, slang

    "If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you."

  11. 16
    To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.

    "The train boomed through the station without stopping."

  12. 17
    To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss. slang

    "It can get fast enough that it's hard to see what flashed on your screen though, so it would be nice if chess engines had a feature of persistently showing you what move they planned to play before they boomed, even if it took less than a second for them to figure it out."

  13. 18
    To cause to advance rapidly in price. dated, transitive

    "to boom railroad or mining shares"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.

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