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Definition: Boom |
BoomNoun1. A deep prolonged loud noise. 2. A state of economic prosperity. 3. A sudden happening that brings very good fortune. 4. A pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set. 5. 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. Verb1. Make a resonant sound; as of artillery: "His deep voice boomed through the hall.". 2. Hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer". 3. Be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed.". 4. Make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song". 5. Grow stronger; "The economy was booming". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A chain of logs, drums or pontoons secured end to end and floating on the surface of a reservoir so as to divert floating debris, trash and logs. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A floating barrier across a river or harbour mouth, or to encircle an oil slick to limit the spread of pollution ; nonsubmersible length of cushion stretched on the surface of the sea or body of water to surround and circumscribe an oil slick or similar pollutant ; a floating device that is used to contain oil on a body of water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A long beam or spar projecting from near to the derrick or hinge casting of a power crane or shovel, and guiding and sustaining the load that is raised from its outer end. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | Either the microphone will be worn by the announcer or it will be on a --. . . . He will trust. . . the -- operator who positions the mike above his head. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | 1. A floating device used to contain oil on a body of water. 2. A piece of equipment used to apply pesticides from a tractor or truck. (references) |
Finance | Rise of prices, favouring bulls. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Of a crane, the arm, fixed or moveable, that handles the load. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A body of round timber, loose(i. e. not in bundles or rafts), in the process of being floated down a waterway from forest to mill or shipping point. Source: European Union. (references) | |
General | Adjustable support for positioning microphones or lighting fixtures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Boom A sudden and great demand of a thing, with a corresponding rise in its price. The rush of a ship under press of sail. The word arises from the sound of booming or rushing water. "The boom was something wonderful. Everybody bought, everybody sold."- Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi, chap. 57. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A spar or beam projecting out over the drill floor from the tripod or derrick, by means of which heavy drill tools and equipment may be moved and safely handled b. A long, adjustable steel arm on a drill jumbo on which drifter or other types of pneumatic drills are mounted c. A cantilevered or overhanging member or structure that supports or contains the component parts of a conveyor. It may be fixed, hinged, or pivoted. d. A pipe fixed across the last supports in a tunnel face to anchor the tail sheave of a scraper loader installation e. In a revolving shovel, a beam hinged to the deck front, supported by cables f. Any beam attached to lifting or excavating equipment. See also:dragline g. Any heavy beam that is hinged at one end and carries a weight-liftingdevice at the other. (references) |
Post & Telecom | In the ERMES measurement arrangement:horizontal device on which the substitution antenna is mounted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | A general name given to a projecting spar or pole that provides an outreach for extending the foot of sails, or mooring boats, handling cargo. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Spar used to extend the foot of a sail. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A \baby boomer is someone born in a period of increased birth rates following World War II. In the United States, demographers have put the generation's birth years at 1946 to 1964; William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations include those conceived by soldiers on leave during the war, putting the generation's birth years at 1943 to 1960. In Canada the Baby Boom is usually defined as the generation born from 1947 to 1964 – Canadian servicemen were repatriated later than American servicemen, and Canada's birth rate did not start to rise till 1947. Whatever year they were born, Boomers were coming of age at the same time across the world, so that Britain was undergoing Beatlemania while people in America were driving over to Woodstock, organizing against the Vietnam War, or fighting and dying in the same war, Boomers in Italy were dressing in mod clothes and "buying the world a Coke", Boomers in India were seeking new philosophical discoveries, American Boomers in Canada had just found a new home after escaping the draft south of the border, Canadian Boomers were organizing support for Pierre Trudeau, and Boomers in Mexico were discovering new hallucinogenic drugs and rediscovering old ones. Although the term "Boomer" has fallen into global use, the generation is also known in Europe as the Generation of 1968.The term is derived from a historically significant rise in the birth rate following the Second World War. Several factors have been credited with this rise, among them a general sense of relief at the war's end, and the resurgent economic conditions of the period. At the time this spike in the birthrate was named the "baby boom."
Boomers' typical grandparents were of the Lost Generation; their parents were of the G.I. Generation and Silent Generation. Their children are of Generation X and the Generation Y and their typical grandchildren will be of the generation that follows the Millenials (born circa 2004-2025).
Unlike the previous generation (the Silent), Boomers lack any childhood recollection of World War II. Unlike the next generation (Generation X), many American Boomers fought in Vietnam or organized opposition to it, or were reaching adolescence or lingering in "post-adolescence" (a term coined for them) as the Vietnam War drew to a close. See also Generation gap.
Celebrities born during the years 1943-1960 include:
Two U.S. Presidents were born during the years 1943-1960: Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It is estimated that the Boom Generation will hold a plurality in Congress until 2015, the White House until 2021, and will have a majority in the Supreme Court from 2010 to 2030.
- 1943 Oliver North
- 1943 Janis Joplin (died 1970)
- 1943 Joe Namath
- 1944 Angela Davis
- 1945 Steve Martin
- 1946 David Stockman
- 1946 Donald Trump
- 1946 Gilda Radner (died 1989)
- 1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- 1947 Mark Rudd
- 1947 David Letterman
- 1948 Al Gore
- 1948 Samuel L. Jackson
- 1948 Jerry Mathers "The Beaver"
- 1950 Jane Pauley
- 1951 Lee Atwater (died 1991)
- 1954 Oprah Winfrey
- 1954 Patty Hearst
- 1955 Steve Jobs
- 1955 William H. Gates III
- 1957 Spike Lee
- 1959 John McEnroe
Foreign-born peers of the Boomers include Lech Walesa, Mick Jagger, Daniel Ortega, Charles, Prince of Wales, and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Their cultural endowments have included the following:
- Doonesbury (comic, Garry Trudeau)
- All the President's Men (book, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, later a movie)
- The Fate of the Earth (Jonathan Schell)
- The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
- Cathy (comic, Cathy Guisewite)
- "American Pie" (song, Don McLean)
- Saturday Night Live (television show)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film, Steven Spielberg)
- Strawberry Statement (James Kunen)
- Green Rage (Christopher Manes)
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Maya Lin)
- Do the Right Thing (film, Spike Lee)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baby boomer."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Boom is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Boom proper. On January 1st, 2000 Boom had a total population of 15,057 (7,309 males and 7,748 females). The total area is 7.42 km² which gives a population density of 2,029.25 inhabitants per km².
Official website
www.boom.be (Dutch only)Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boom."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BOOM | English | Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BoomSynonyms: bonanza (n), manna from heaven (n), microphone boom (n), roar (n), roaring (n), blast (v), boom out (v), din (v), expand (v), flourish (v), get ahead (v), nail (v), prosper (v), smash (v), thrive (v), thunder (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: drive-in (food & agriculture, transportation). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
Hindrance | Beaver dam; trocha; barricade; (defense); wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper; boom, dam, weir, burrock. |
Impulse | Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug. |
Navigation | Navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate. |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bada bing, bada bing, bang, boom. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Will it appear again this Friday? The entire Channel 6 News Team will be there, except for Bill, the boom mike operator, who's getting fired tomorrow (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Sis boom bah (The Band Wagon; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Boom, baby (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) You know how easy it is to get a gun in the country? In 5 minutes, Boom, gunshow (John Q; writing credit: James Kearns) | |
Lyrics | The fuse is lit and I'm about to go boom (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) To you, ah yeah and your other crew, if it is a dream, boom see boom (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) 4 15's didnt see no wire's, and then i heard boom (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) Could I say it when you play it try boom bye bye. (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Boom (2003) Bing Bang Boom (1969) Boom (1969) Baby in de boom (1969) Daniel Boom (1967) | |
Song Titles | Hot Diggety (Dog Ziggety Boom) (performing artist: Perry Como) Boom! Shake The Room (performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Image of Voyager with the magnetometer boom deployed. Credit: NASA. |  | Oil containment boom placed in Swanson Creek, tributary to the Patuxent River, after oil spill at power generating plant. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Gust probe mounted on forward boom of P-3. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | A boom is deployed to contain oil at the spill site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Geotubes being filled at Barren Island. A crane holds the boom that is filling the bag. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The bow of the ALBATROSS, showing the location of the dredging boom and sounding machine. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate XLII, p.111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship DISCOVERER with a number of sensors attached to bow during BOMEX, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment. The tethered balloon is carrying upper-air meteorological sensors, the boom project ing from the bow has meteorological instruments, and the line leading down has sea-temperature sensors attached. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A KC-10A Extender, with its boom extended. |
 | Air refueling boom operator. |  | Under spray from the rotating boom rainfall simulator he operates, hydraulic engineer Gary Frasier gathers information on soil infiltration and water runoff. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Dead Cat! 1" by Matt Williams Commentary: "A furry boom mic used for filming. Otherwise known as a "dead cat"." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Here a cannon would go boom, and thunder would go puff |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | You may often detect a yet smoother and darker water, separated from the rest as if by an invisible cobweb, boom of the water nymphs, resting on it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Terms from years ago, such as pot, herb, grass, weed, Mary Jane, and reefer, are still used. You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif, or ganja. (references) | |
Business | The economic boom is also raising airfreight volumes. (references) | |
Mexico is not an exception to the global boom of the Value Added Services (VAS). (references) | ||
In the economic boom period before 1997, there were many port expansion projects. (references) | ||
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia's insurance market is heading for a boom. (references) |
Zimbabwe | In the early 1970s, the economy experienced a modest boom. (references) | |
Ireland | The EU role in the Irish economic boom cannot be underestimated. (references) | |
Political Economy | PORTUGAL | The broader economy has been stimulated by a boom in consumer spending brought on by lower interest rates and greater availability of credit. (references) |
Poland | The ongoing process of restructuring and increasing numbers of youths entering the labor force as a result of the postmartial law baby boom have increased unemployment. (references) | |
Ireland | The April 2000 Partnership Program outlines a series of government, business and labor actions that aim to ensure a broader geographic and social sharing of benefits from the Irish economic boom. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | Major cities have also seen a boom in the opening of mini-hotels oriented toward the business client and long-term guest. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Scott Thorson | I was in foster homes. And then all of a sudden, boom, all this wealth, all this fame, you know. So I did whatever I had to do. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Your former colleague, my first Secretary of the Treasury, led that effort and sparked our long boom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Boom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.55% of the time. "Boom" is used about 1,395 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.55% | 1,291 | 6,120 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.72% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.08% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.01% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (common) | 0.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,395 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "boom" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Boom | Last name | 300 | 27,963 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "boom": baby boom ♦ boat boom ♦ boom attachment ♦ boom box ♦ Boom iron ♦ boom microphone ♦ boom operator ♦ boom out ♦ boom preventer ♦ boom times ♦ boom town ♦ boom years ♦ construction boom ♦ economic boom ♦ flying boom ♦ focused boom ♦ fore boom ♦ Gib boom ♦ guest warp boom ♦ investment boom ♦ jib boom ♦ kaffir boom ♦ Main boom ♦ microphone boom ♦ mike boom ♦ muffled boom ♦ outrigger boom ♦ riding boom ♦ Ringtail boom ♦ sheer boom ♦ sonic boom ♦ sonic boom ray ♦ spanker boom ♦ supersonic boom ♦ Torpedo boom. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "boom": boom-and-bust, boom-and-slump, boom-ba-di-boom, boom-bang-a-bang-booooooom, boom-boom, boom-bust, boom-chi, boom-chi-boom, boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi, boom-hoom, Boom-hoom-hoom, boom-induced, boom-led, boom-like, boom-slump, boom-slump cycle, boom-time, boom-to-bust, boom-town, boom-type. | |
Ending with "boom": baby-boom, boom-boom, mini-boom. | |
Containing "boom": bust-boom-bust, Hoom-zoom-boom-foom. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
boom box | 1,280 | sony boom box | 87 |
boom | 1,209 | tick tick boom | 86 |
boom mic | 1,049 | boom boom boom | 79 |
boom boom volleyball | 543 | boom click click | 75 |
boom town | 434 | boom town rat | 72 |
boom rhythm | 284 | boom lift | 66 |
boom red white | 253 | chicka chicka boom boom | 64 |
boom boom password volleyball | 243 | boom toki toki | 60 |
boom town casino | 224 | boom boom room | 58 |
boom mango | 218 | boom boom boom boom | 51 |
baby boom | 209 | cd boom box | 50 |
boom boom code volleyball | 202 | boom madison rhythm | 50 |
boom boom cheat volleyball | 165 | boom hot red | 48 |
corrie ten boom | 132 | boom job | 47 |
sonic boom | 131 | boom rythem | 44 |
boom truck | 128 | la boom | 42 |
mp3 boom box | 124 | jvc boom box | 42 |
boom boom | 119 | boom columbus ohio red white | 41 |
boom boom kennedy | 98 | benny boom | 40 |
bird boom boom | 89 | boom chuck | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "boom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bum, buçitje, buçet (zoom), ulërimë (howl, roar, roaring, scream, screech, ululation, wow), pritë (ambuscade, ambush, barrage, blind, sluice, wait), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), lulëzoj (bloom, blossom, blow, effloresce, flourish, flower, prosper, thrive), lulëzim i përkohshëm, krah (arm, bay, beam, bundle, cantilever, console, fin, flank, hand, outhouse, outrigger, pinion, Pinna, shoulder, side, wing, winger), kam sukses (arrive, be a success, bring off, click, come across, come along, do well, get on with, make a hit, succeed), gjallërim (animation, invigoration, spirit, tittup, vivification, vivifying), gjëmim (blare, clap, grumble, peal, roar, roaring, rumble, thunder, whang). (various references) | |
Arabic | ذراع المرفاع (jib), روج لقضية, أعلن بدوى, أز (buzz, fizz, ping, roar, sing, sizzle, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), إزدهر (blossom, flourish, grow up, prosper, thrive), إزدهار (flower, growth, health, prosperity, swell), إتساع (ampleness, breadth, enlargement, expansion, fullness, fulness, generosity, immenseness, immensity, liberality, propagation, reach, roominess, size, span, stretch), دوى (blare, peal, reecho, resound, reverberate, roll, shrill, thunder), ذراع التطويل, ميكروفون (microphone, mike), طن (buzz, midriff, ring, whine, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), سلسلة حديدية, تعاظم (accession, accretion, build up, increase, intension, mount, swank, wax), هدر (brawl, growl, plash, roar, squandering, thud, thunder, waste, yell), هدير (brawler, plash, ripple, roar, thunder), مرشد الطائرة, إندفع بدوى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надлъжник, плаващ бараж, подем (progress, revival, upgrade, uplift, upsurge, upswing), бръмча (burr, buzz, drone, drum, ha, hum, ping, purr, ring, sing, whir, whirr), бръмчене (burr, buzz, hum, humming, ping, purr, whir, whirr, zoom), бумтеж (thunder), добивам широка известност, бързо покачване на цените, стрела (arrow, bolt, dart, jibe, lead, outrigger, shaft), гръм (bark, bolt, clap, crack, peal, reverberation, shaft, thunder, thunder peal, thunderbolt, thunderclap), гърмя (bang, bellow, fulminate, peal, pop off, roll, speak, thunder), шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, buzz, clam, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), рекламирам (advertise, advertize, boost, headline, promote, publicize, puff, push, quack, sell), сензация (hit, sensation, shine, splash, stir), утлегар (jib boom), бумтя (thunder). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轟 (bang, explosion, rumble, strike), 鼕 , 景氣 (prosperity), 景气, 檣 (mast), 咚 . (various references) | |
Czech | burácet (bluster, rage, roll, rumble, thunder), vzkvétat (flourish, thrive), vratipeò, výložník, třesk (clash, crash, smash), plovoucí přehrada, mikrofonová tyè, konjunktura (upturn), dunìt (boom out, clang, roll, rumble, throb, thunder). (various references) | |
Danish | boom, bom (balancing beam, beam, crossbeam, jib-boom, logboom, post, roller), bjælk, spredebom (breaker bar, spray boom, spraybar), spærre (ace, inhibit, lead, lead out, logboom, space, white out), løsflåde (drive), kranarm (flying bar, jib-boom), hausse (bull market), højkonjunktur, flydespærring (floating barrier), flydende spærring (floating barrier), flydende dæmning (floating barrier), arm (arm). (various references) | |
Dutch | balk (beam, girder), boom (tree), kraanarm (jib-boom), drijfbalken (logboom), drijvend oliescherm (floating barrier), drijvend scherm (floating barrier), flexibel aan elkaar gebonden drijvende boomstammen (drive), giek (jib-boom, outrigger, outrigger boom, spanker boom), arm (arm, crank, miserable, poor), hausse (bull market, increase in prices, rising prices, tendency for prices to rise, tendency to rise, upward trend in prices, upward trend of prices), zwenkarm, kraangiek (jib-boom), oliescherm (floating barrier), spriet (aerial, antenna, blade, stalk, wit), spuitboom (breaker bar, spray boom, spraybar), statief (stand, tripod), stijging (bull market, lead, rise, rising period), vlottende versperringsgordel (floating barrier), grootboom (spanker boom). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشرفت یاجنبش سریع وعظیم , غریو (Outcry, Uproar), غریدن (Peal, Roar, Root, Rumble, Snort), تیرکوچک , توسعه یافتن , صدای غرش , بسرعت درقیمت ترقی کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | puomi (bar, barrier, beam). (various references) | |
French | boom. (various references) | |
German | brausen (bluster, boil, buzz, foam, howl, hum, humming, make a noise, pound, race, ring, roar, roll, shower, storm, swoosh, thunder), Baum (tree), aufschwung (lift, prosperity, recovery, swing up, uplift, upswing, upturn), sperre (ban, barrier, barring, blackout, blockade, detent, elimination, embargo, fence, gate, interlock, lock, lock out, locking device, lockout, mental block, obstacle, roadblock), hochkonjunktur, dröhnen (clang, din, drone, echo, peal, pound away, pounding, resound, roar, rumble, sing, singing, sound, throb, thunder, to boom, to din, to drone, whir), boom (mandorla, mandrake), ausleger (interpreter, jib, jig, outrigger, rowlock), Andrang (access, crowd, crush, impetus, impulse, inflow, insistence, onrush, press, pressure, rush, urgency). (various references) | |
Greek | κεραία (aerial, antenna, arial). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיקרופון (microphone), מוט (bar, gad, pole, rod, roost, shaft, staff, stake, yoke), מנור (loom), לשגשג (flourish, get ahead, prosper, thrive), להרעים (enrage, thunder), תקופת שגשוג, שגשוג (flourishing, growth, heyday, proliferation, prosperity, success, well being), קול רעם (roll, rumble), גאות (boon, flood tide, flow, flux, glory, high tide, majesty, pride, swell, swelling, tide), בום, נושא (motif, subject, theme, thesis, topic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fellendülés (boost, prosperity, recovery, uplift, upsurge, upswing), dörgés (bellow, clap, fulmination, roar, roaring, rolling, rumble, rumbling, thunder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berdentum (boom out), batangan (bar, barrier, by the bar, cross beam, trunk), menderum (kneel), membumbung (soaring). (various references) | |
Italian | giraffa (camelopard, giraffe), braccio (arm, brace, bracket, Ell, fathom, hand, jib, reach, wing), boom, boma (spanker boom). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 暴騰 (sharp rise, skyrocketing, sudden rise). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブーム , ぼうとう (beginning, outset, sharp rise, skyrocketing, start, sudden rise), ほんとう (main island, price jump, reality, stealing home, this island, truth, turning upside-down), ほげた (yard), こうけいき (good times, prosperity), じょうけいき (prosperity). (various references) | |
Korean | 붐. (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo tharmaneys jeh, jannoo tharmane (crash), foghraghey er ard, foghraghey dy ard, cronnaney (croon, drone, hum, purr, sing), croanscoidey, croan drommey, croan derrick, croan (flag pole, mast), buirrooghey (bellowing, burst, burst of sound, growl, growling, low, roar, roaring, rumble, thundering, thundering of sea, vociferate), bisheydys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oombay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barragem (barrier, dam, weir), barragem flutuante (floater, floating barrier), barreira flutuante (floating barrier), braço de grua (jib-boom), lança de engate (beam, pole), dique flutuante (floating barrier), estampido (cracking, crash, din), estrondo (bang, clap, clash, crack, din, flaw, peal, rattle, rumble, smash, thunder), flutuantes de proteçao (logboom), aumento de negócios, lança da pá (jib-boom), viga (balk, cantilever, girder, joist, pole, rafter, rib, stringer, stud, tree), lança de guindaste (cross-bar, cross-piece, jib), lançar-se (leap, plunge, rush), longarina (stringer), propaganda política, rampa (acclivity, agger, ascent, bank, gradient, hillside, incline, ramp, rise, runway, slope, talus, uprise), ressoar (clang, clash, echo, peal, rebound, reecho, resonate, resound, reverberate, rumble, sound, whang), suporte (base, basis, brace, bracing, buttress, column, crutch, foot, girder, hanger, hold, holder, holdfast, lay-over, leg, mounting, pedestal, pillow, pillow-block, post, prop, ribbing, socket, stake, stanchion, stand, stay, stock, stool, supporter, tie-plate), vara (baton, cane, ell, fish rod, herd, pole, rod, staff, stake, stalk, stick, switch, wand, wattle), lança (javelin, lance, spear, steel, thill). (various references) | |
Romanian | bum (bang, slap bang), bubuit (peal, roar, rumble, thundering), bubui (bang, peal, roar, roll, rumble, thunder), boc (bang, slap bang), vui (hum, roar, rumble), vâlvã (agitation, fame, page-one, scandal, sensation, surprise), senzaţie (excitement, feeling, page-one, perception, sensation, splash, stir), reclamã zgomotoasã (ballyhoo, puff), prosperitate (bonanza, flourish, flourishing, glory, heyday, prosperity, thriving, weal, welfare, wellbeing), prospera (do well, flourish, make good, prosper, strike oil, thrive), perioadã de avânt, face reclamã pentru (boost), estacadã (elevated runway, scaffold, stockade, trestle), deveni cunoscut (come out, come to the fore, develop, take air), înflori (bloom, blossom, blow, break into blossom, effloresce, flourish, flower, thrive). (various references) | |
Russian | становиться известным (get about, get around), рокот, шумно рекламировать, шумная реклама, гул (clash), гудеть (beep, din, hoot, ping, tooted), гудение (ping), внезапный успех в делах, ажиотаж (agio, agiotage, stock-jobbing), бум (bam). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bučati (roar), brzo rasti, brz porast, uspon (ascent, grade, rise, up, upgrade), tutnjiti, procvetati (blossom, effloresce), gruvati (roar). (various references) | |
Sotho | boom. (various references) | |
Spanish | estampido (bang, bark, crash, detonation, report, thunder), botalón (breaker bar, outrigger, outrigger boom, spray boom, spraybar), aguilón (arm, gable, jib, large eagle). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppsving (upsurge, upswing), dåna (din, faint, rumble, thunder), dån (ado, brattle, din, hemp nettle, noise, roar, rumble, thunder), bom (bar, barrier, beam, bolt, Derrick, fence, level-crossing gate, Miss, spar). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม้ค้ำที่ยื่นออกจากหัวเรือสำหรับผูกเชือกรั้งเสา (jib boom). (various references) | |
Turkish | bumba (Derrick), gürlemek (din, growl, grumble, peal, roar, rumble, rumble out, thunder), çıkış yapmak (check out), ani artış, artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), canlanma (coming to life, rebirth, refreshment, renaissance, renascense, resurgence, revival), derinden gelen ses, fırlamak (bolt, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), güm (bang, flump, pop, slam, thud, whang), çıkış (ascent, check out, egress, exit, hit, issue, out, outlet, outrun, power output, rising, sortie, start, starting, up, way out), gümlemek (plonk, plunk), yüzer kütüklerden oluşan engel, gelişmek (advance, ameliorate, blossom, blossom out, branch out, develop, evolve, expand, flourish, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, improve, make headway, progress, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, evolve, improve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up, work up), kamera kolu, patlama (bang, blow out, blowup, burst, burst up, crack, detonating, detonation, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fulminating, fulmination, outburst, plosion, puncture, simmer), patlama sesi (clap, pop, report), seren (spar, sprit, yard), uğuldamak (buzz, howl, hum, murmur, ping, roar, scream, sing, sough, whistle), uğultu (buzzing, clatter, howl, hum, humming, ping, roar, roaring, singing, sough), vinç kolu (gib arm, jib), gümbürdemek (clash, grumble, rumble, thump, thunder). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рокіт (booming), рокотати (hum), рекламувати (advertise, advertize, blurb, boost, glamorize, glamourize, publicize, puff, push, sell, write up), гуркотіти (clatter), гул (booming, clash, hubbub), гудіти (beep, buzz, hoot, zoom), гудіння (booming, buzz, hum, whir, whirr, zoom), галасувати (clamor, clamour, clutter, noise, rollick, sound off, whoop), галас (ado, affray, ballyhoo, breeze, broil, bustle, clamor, clamour, clang, hullabaloo, noise, outcry, ruckus), бум, дзижчати (buzz, chirrup, hum, ping, whir, whirr, zoom), дзижчання (booming, buzz, hum, humming, ping, whir, whirr). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng oang oang tiếng kêu vo vo. (various references) | |
Welsh | bw+m, utganu (sound a trumpet), trystio (bluster, bruit, make a noise), trwst (din, noise, tumult), swae. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | boom. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boom": boombox, boomboxes, boomed, boomer, boomerang, boomeranged, boomeranging, boomerangs, boomers, boomier, boomiest, booming, boomkin, boomkins, boomlet, boomlets, booms, boomtown, boomtowns, boomy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boom": foreboom, jibboom, preboom. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boom": forebooms, jibbooms, schussboomer, schussboomers. (additional references) | |
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"Boom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bamo, baom, bemo, beon, Bhoma, biem, bimo, Biofoam, Biolm, biom, Boam, Bocoum, boem, Boima, bojo, bolm, bom, boma, Bomi, Bomm, bomr, booc, boof, booh, booj, booma, Boomla, boomn, boomy, Boomz, boop, boov, Boroma, bosm, botom, Botomba, Bouma, boym, bozom, brom, buam, bui, buim, bumf, buum, ebom, noom, Obami, oboh, oom, voom, yoom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boom" (pronounced buw"m) |
| 2 | -uw" m | abloom, assume, bloom, Blume, broom, perfume, plume, presume, consume, costume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, fume, gloom, groom, legroom, loom, reassume, resume, room, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-m-o-o" | |
-1 letter: boo, mob, moo. | |
-2 letters: bo, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-m-o-o" | |
+1 letter: bloom, booms, boomy, bosom, bromo, broom, combo, coomb, gombo. | |
+2 letters: abloom, bamboo, blooms, bloomy, boomed, boomer, bosoms, bosomy, bottom, bromos, brooms, broomy, combos, coombe, coombs, gombos, tomboy. | |
+3 letters: bamboos, barroom, bazooms, bedroom, begloom, bionomy, bloomed, bloomer, blossom, bookman, bookmen, boombox, boomers, boomier, booming, boomkin, boomlet, boredom, bosomed, bossdom, bottoms, broomed, coombes, coulomb, coxcomb, embosom, goombah, goombay, gumboot, hoboism, homeboy, imbosom, jibboom, lobworm, moonbow, preboom, rebloom, tombola, tombolo, tomboys, unbosom. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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