boom
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: boo͞m
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- Rhymes: -uːm
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German bummen, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”).
Verb
boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)
- 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?
- (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.”
- (transitive) To make something boom.
- Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
- (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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
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- She comes booming down before it.
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Descendants
- → German: boomen
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Noun
boom (plural booms)
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- The boom of the surf.
- 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.
- 1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
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Interjection
boom
- used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- 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.
- 1993, Vibe (volume 1, number 2)
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.
Noun
boom (plural booms)
- (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.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- 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.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
- 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.
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Verb
boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)
- 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)
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
Antonyms
- (period of prosperity): recession
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Verb
boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- The population boomed in recent years.
- Business was booming.
- (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
- to boom railroad or mining shares
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch boom, from Old Dutch bōm, boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
boom (plural bome, diminutive boompie)
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch bōm, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
boom m (plural bomen, diminutive boompje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
boom m (plural booms, diminutive boompje n)
- 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
boom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation
French
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Pronunciation
Noun
boom m (plural booms)
- boom (dramatically fast increase)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English boom, from Dutch boom - see above.
Noun
boom m (uncountable)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch bōm, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.
Noun
bôom m
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “boom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “boom (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Portuguese
Etymology
Noun
boom m (plural s)
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
boom m (plural booms)
- boom (period of prosperity or high market activity)
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