boom
The English word “boom” has 32 meanings listed here.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make (something) boom.
- To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- To cause a sonic boom.
- To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- To publicly praise, to rally behind.
- 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.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To cause to advance rapidly in price.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- An instance of booming.
- Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.
- The sound of a bass drum beating.
- The sound of a cannon firing.
- 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 specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae 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 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.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
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