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Webster 1913 Edition

Boom

Boom

(boōm)
,
Noun.
[D.
boom
tree, pole, beam, bar. See
Beam
.]
1.
(Naut.)
A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail;
as, the jib
boom
, the studding-sail
boom
, etc.
2.
(Mech.)
A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
3.
A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.
[Obs.]
4.
(Mil. & Naval)
A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.
5.
(Lumbering)
A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.
Boom iron
,
one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse.
–
The booms
,
that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed.
Totten.

Boom

(boōm)
,
Verb.
T.
(Naut.)
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole;
as, to
boom
out a sail; to
boom
off a boat
.

Boom

(boōm)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Boomed
,
p. pr. & vb. n.
Booming
.]
[Of imitative origin; cf. OE.
bommen
to hum, D.
bommen
to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W.
bwmp
a hollow sound;
aderyn y bwmp
, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf.
Bum
,
Bump
,
Verb.
I.
,
Bomb
,
Verb.
I.
]
1.
To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
At eve the beetle
boometh

Athwart the thicket lone.
Tennyson.
2.
To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
Alarm guns
booming
through the night air.
W. Irving.
3.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
She comes
booming
down before it.
Totten.
4.
To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

Boom

,
Noun.
1.
A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
2.
A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; – applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office;
as, a
boom
in the stock market; a
boom
in coffee
.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Boom

,
Verb.
T.
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
.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Boom

BOOM

,
Noun.
A long pole or spar, run out from various parts of a ship, or other vessel, for the purpose of extending the bottom of particular sails; as the jib-boom, studding-sail boom, main-boom, square-sail boom. &c.
1.
A strong iron chain, fastened to spars, and extended across a river, or the mouth of a harbor, to prevent an enemy's ships from passing.
2.
A pole set up as a mark to direct seamen how to keep the channel, in shallow water.

Definition 2024

Boom

Boom

See also: boom and Bööm

Translingual

Proper noun

Boom

  1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Boudewijn Karel Boom (1903-1980).

English

Boom at the river Rupel

Proper noun

Boom

  1. A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.

Translations

Dutch

Boom at the river Rupel

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [boːm]

Proper noun

Boom ?

  1. A Belgian town and municipality in the Flemish province of Antwerp.

Related terms

German Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Low German bôm, from Old Saxon bōm, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz. Akin to Dutch boom, German Baum, West Frisian beam, English beam.

Noun

Boom m (plural Bööm or Bäum)

  1. tree

Hypernyms

  • Plant

Hyponyms

Derived terms

See also

References

  • Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, ISBN 978-3-529-03000-0, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German bôm, from Old Saxon bōm

Noun

Boom m ‎(plural Beem)

  1. tree

Derived terms

  • Boomstaum (tree trunk, bole)
  • Boomwoll (cotton)
  • Boomworscht (banana)
  • Hoafstboom (autumn tree)
  • Bäarenboom (pear tree)
  • Kjoaschenboom (cherry tree)
  • Wiedenboom (willow)
  • Wienachtsboom (Christmas tree)

See also

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bām.

Noun

Boom ?

  1. tree

boom

boom

See also: Boom and Bööm

English

Verb

boom ‎(third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

  1. To make a loud, resonant sound.
    Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
    The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.
    Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks.
    I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.
    • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
      Did you ever hear a bittern booming?
  2. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter I and XVII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      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.”
  3. (transitive) To make something boom.
    Men in grey robes slowly booming the drums of death.
  4. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
      If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
  5. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
    • Totten
      She comes booming down before it.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

boom ‎(plural booms)

  1. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
    The boom of the surf.
  2. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
    • 1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
      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.
Translations

Interjection

boom

  1. used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
  2. used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
    • 1993, Vibe (volume 1, number 2)
      So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!
    • 2013, Peter Westoby, ‎Gerard Dowling, Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development
      Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Dutch boom ‎(“tree; pole”). Cognate with English English beam.

Noun

boom ‎(plural booms)

  1. (nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
  2. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
  3. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  4. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
  5. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill.
  6. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  7. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
Related terms
Translations

Verb

boom ‎(third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

  1. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
    to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat

Etymology 3

Perhaps a figurative development of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

boom ‎(plural booms)

  1. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
Antonyms
Translations

Verb

boom ‎(third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

  1. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
    The population boomed in recent years.
    Business was booming.
  2. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
    to boom railroad or mining shares
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boom, from Old Dutch bōm, boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boəm/

Noun

boom ‎(plural bome)

  1. A tree

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch boom, from Old Dutch bōm, boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz. Cognate with English boom ‎(“horizontal member”), beam ‎(“wood”), German Low German Boom, German Baum ‎(“tree”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -oːm
  • IPA(key): /boːm/

Noun

boom m ‎(plural bomen, diminutive boompje n)

  1. tree
  2. any solid, pole-shaped, usually wooden object
Derived terms

Trees:

Solid pole-shaped object:

Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English boom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːm/

Noun

boom m ‎(plural booms, diminutive boompje n)

  1. boom, as in a market explosion

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

See also

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English boom.

Noun

boom m ‎(plural booms)

  1. boom (dramatically fast increase)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English boom, from Dutch boom - see above.

Noun

boom m ‎(invariable)

  1. A boom (sound)
  2. A boom, rapid expansion
  3. A boom (crane)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English boom.

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

  1. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English boom.

Noun

boom m ‎(plural booms)

  1. boom (period of prosperity or high market activity)

See also

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen ‎(“to hum, buzz”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: boo͞m
    • (UK) IPA(key): /buːm/
    • (US) IPA(key): /bum/
  • Rhymes: -uːm

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