booster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbustɚ/
Forms: form: boosters
Etymology: From boost + -er.
Senses: examples: text: DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"...
 LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.
ref: 2021 January 13, Stephen Joseph Dubner, “How Much Do We Really Care about Children?”, in Freakonomics Radio, Episode 447:
glosses: Something that boosts.
glosses: Ellipsis of booster seat.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The first stage of a multistage rocket, providing primary or supplemental thrust for liftoff and early flight.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
examples: text: The Pied Piper treats Lowenstein as a metaphor for American post-war liberalism and subjects a once highly regarded political movement to the same scrutiny Lowenstein himself faces. Not too surprisingly, both come out wanting, though their boosters claim otherwise.
ref: 1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 12:
text: Nor is his district quite the Democratic bastion boosters describe: voters there narrowly backed Barack Obama in 2008, but voted for Mr Bush by a hefty margin in 2004.
ref: 2012, “Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded”, in The Economist:
glosses: Someone who publicly promotes or endorses (something or someone); a fan or supporter.
glosses: A member of a booster club.
examples: text: When did you get your last tetanus booster?
text: In the September vaccine monitor survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 71 percent of unvaccinated respondents said the need for boosters indicated that the vaccines were not working.
ref: 2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A booster dose.
qualifier: explosives
glosses: A small quantity of a sensitive explosive that is triggered by a detonator and provides the energy needed to detonate a larger quantity of a less-sensitive explosive.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
topics: video-games
glosses: A power-up item.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A package of cards or figurines designed to add to a player's collection.
examples: text: The security guard captured two boosters before they could exit the retail store.
glosses: A thief.
examples: text: Another notable new series of locomotives, now in course of delivery to the Canadian National Railways, [...]. Fifteen are being built by the Montreal Locomotive Works Limited, and ten by the Canadian Locomotive Company, of Kingston, Ontario; the former are being provided with boosters and the latter are not.
ref: 1941 January, “Recent North American Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 27:
text: Also in 1939, six 4-8-4s, classified "Kb" because they have boosters, were built at Hillside for service between Christchurch and Arthurs Pass.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A booster engine fitted to a steam locomotive.
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