boom
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
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chess
computer
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mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: booms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: booming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Did you ever hear a bittern booming?
gloss: To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
[...]
 “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.”
gloss: To flourish, grow, or progress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The population boomed in recent years.
Business was booming.
“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.”
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.
gloss: To make (something) boom.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
gloss: To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
pos: verb
examples: Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly[.]
gloss: To cause a sonic boom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To publicly praise, to rally behind.
pos: verb
tags: US
obsolete
slang
examples: If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
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.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: The train boomed through the station without stopping.
The ship was booming under the press of sail.
She comes booming down before it.
gloss: To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To cause to advance rapidly in price.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to boom railroad or mining shares
gloss: Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
pos: intj
examples: crash boom bang
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.
gloss: Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.
pos: intj
examples: Add one cup of hot water, wait a minute, and boom — your cup of ramen is ready.
So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!
Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.
gloss: The sound of a bass drum beating.
pos: intj
gloss: The sound of a cannon firing.
pos: intj
Related words: kaboom
Derived words: boom off
boom box
boom-boom
boomstick
boom town
ba da bing ba da boom
bada bing bada boom
bada boom
bada boom bada bing
boom goes the dynamite
ka-boom
sis boom bah
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: буча
roman: buča
lang: Bulgarian
word: боботя
roman: bobotja
lang: Dutch
word: dreunen
lang: Finnish
word: jyristä
lang: German
word: dröhnen
lang: Spanish
word: retumbar
lang: Swedish
word: dåna