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See also: Boom and Bööm

English

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Etymology 1

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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.

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

  1. To make a loud, hollow, 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, “I AND XVII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      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.
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      “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.”
  4. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
    Synonyms: flourish, prosper
    The population boomed in recent years.
    Business was booming.
    • 2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, quoting Ron DeSantis, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      “If you look at South Florida right now, this place is booming,” Mr. DeSantis said recently. “Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City isn’t booming.”
    • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 145:
      Over this period, as plants boomed, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dropped by 90 per cent, triggering a period of global cooling.
  5. (transitive) To make (something) boom.
    Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
  6. (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
  7. (aviation):
    1. (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
    2. (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
  8. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise, to rally behind.
    • 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge:
      If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
    • 1964, Jerry Maynard Anderson, Paul H. Douglas: Insurgent Senate Spokesman for Humane Causes, 1949-1963:
      This unexpected stand on the budget met with some displeasure from his Democratic colleagues and the Administration , particularly in light of the fact that Truman had not forgotten that Douglas boomed Eisenhower as the Democrat nominee for President in 1948.
    • 2019 October 22, Norman D. Brown, Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys: Texas Politics, 1929–1932, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:
      Field's ostensible reason for going to Texas was to attend the second annual Texas Roundup in Austin. He boomed Roosevelt there. “Governor Roosevelt has all the strength possessed by Al Smith and none of Smith's weaknesses,” he told reporters.
  9. (of a vehicle) 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.
    The ship was booming under the press of sail.
    • 1841, Benjamin Totten, Naval Text-book and Dictionary […] :
      She comes booming down before it.
  10. (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
    Antonym: moob
    • 2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium‎[2], archived from the original on 6 December 2022:
      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.
    • 2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC‎[3], archived from the original on 13 December 2022:
      In its White game Stockfish had various moments of booming during these long thinks, but these long thinks always ended disappointingly in a slightly lower evaluation than it started with.
  11. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
    to boom railroad or mining shares
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Noun

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boom (plural booms)

  1. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
    the boom of the surf
  2. A rapid expansion or increase.
    You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.
    • 1941 March, “Notes and News: The Demand for Slate”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:
      Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
  3. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
    Antonym: recession
  4. (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
  5. 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.
  6. (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
    Antonym: moob
    • 2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium‎[4], archived from the original on 6 December 2022:
      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.
    • 2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC‎[5], archived from the original on 13 December 2022:
      The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!
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Descendants
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  • → German: Boom
  • → Indonesian: bum
  • → Japanese: ブーム (būmu)
  • → Polish: boom
  • → Russian: бум (bum)
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Interjection

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boom

  1. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
    crash boom bang
    • 2020 January 12, Drachinifel, 47:06 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 076‎[6], archived from the original on 26 September 2022:
      In regards to what happened to Mutsu, well, it went BOOM. To be more prosaic about it, there were a number of theories put forward as to why Mutsu's magazine for its aft superfiring turret exploded, some of them more plausible than others.
  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.
    • 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.
  3. The sound of a bass drum beating.
  4. The sound of a cannon firing.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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boom (plural booms)

  2. (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
    Coordinate terms: buoy, cathead
    • (Can we date this quote?), “Pico Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento‎[7], page 1:
      Tighten the outhaul and place the appropriate line in the cam cleat located on the boom about two feet back from the mast.
  3. (videography)
    1. A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
    2. (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
  4. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  5. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
  6. 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.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
      I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
  8. (gymnastics) 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.
    • 1948, Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes:
      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.
  10. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  11. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
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Verb

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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
  2. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

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Etymology

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

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boom (plural bome, diminutive boompie)

  1. tree

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch bōm, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

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    boom m (plural bomen, diminutive boompje n or boomken n)

    1. tree
    2. any solid, pole-shaped, usually wooden object
      1. beam
      2. mast
        Synonym: mast
      3. boom
        Synonym: giek
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    general
    types and species of tree
    animal and plant taxa named after trees
    Descendants
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    • Afrikaans: boom
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: bom
    • Jersey Dutch: bôm
    • Negerhollands: bom, boom
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: bom (archaic)
    • Musi: bum (“dock”)
    • Polish: bom, bum
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: bom, boom
    • Sranan Tongo: bon
    • → English: boom
    • → Indonesian: bom (“tree, pole”), bum

    Etymology 2

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      Borrowed from English boom. Compare boem.

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      boom m (plural booms, diminutive boompje n)

      1. boom (rapid expansion or increase)
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      Etymology 3

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        From bodem with loss of intervocalic -d- (compare weder/weer, moeder/moer, and so forth); sometimes spelled boôm to indicate the lost consonant (as in Neêrland).

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        boom m (uncountable, no diminutive)

        1. obsolete form of bodem (“soil”)

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

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        French

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        Alternative forms

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from English boom.

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        boom m (plural booms)

        1. boom (rapid expansion or increase)

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        German

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        boom

        1. singular imperative of boomen

        Italian

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        Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing from English boom, from Dutch boom.

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        boom m (invariable)

        1. a boom (sound)
        2. a boom (crane)
        3. a boom (rapid expansion or increase)
        4. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)

        Middle Dutch

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        Etymology

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        From Old Dutch bōm, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.

        Noun

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        bôom m

        1. tree
        2. beam, pole
        3. boom barrier

        Inflection

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        Strong masculine noun
        singular plural
        nominative bôom bôme
        accusative bôom bôme
        genitive bôoms bôme
        dative bôme bômen

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        Polish

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        Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing from English boom.

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        boom m inan

        1. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)
        2. boom (rapid expansion or increase)

        Declension

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        Declension of boom
        singular plural
        nominative boom boomy
        genitive boomu boomów
        dative boomowi boomom
        accusative boom boomy
        instrumental boomem boomami
        locative boomie boomach
        vocative boomie boomy

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        • boom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
        • boom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

        Portuguese

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        Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing from English boom.

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        boom m (plural booms)

        1. a boom (sound)
        2. a boom (rapid expansion or increase)
        3. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)

        Romanian

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        Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing from English boom.

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        boom n (plural boomuri)

        1. (economics, business) boom

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        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative boom boomul boomuri boomurile
        genitive-dative boom boomului boomuri boomurilor
        vocative boomule boomurilor

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        Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing from English boom.

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        boom m (plural booms)

        1. a boom (sound)
        2. a boom (rapid expansion or increase)
        3. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)

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