Boomname/boʊm/

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  A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.

boomverb詞源 1/buːm/

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  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.
• 2

  To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.

  • 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.”
• 3

  To flourish, grow, or progress.

  • The population boomed in recent years.
  • Business was booming.
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  To make (something) boom.

  • Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
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  To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.

  • 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[.]
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  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo cause a sonic boom.

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  slangaeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.

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  obsoleteslangTo publicly praise, to rally behind.

  • 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.

boomnoun詞源 1/buːm/

• 1

  A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

  • the boom of the surf
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  A rapid expansion or increase.

  • You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.
  • Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
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  businesseconomicssciencesA period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.

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  One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.

  • 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.
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  slangboard-gameschesscomputerAn instance of booming.

  • Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant.
  • The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!

boomintj詞源 1/buːm/

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  Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.

  • 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.
• 2

  Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.

  • 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!
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  The sound of a bass drum beating.

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  The sound of a cannon firing.

boomnoun詞源 2/buːm/

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  nauticalsailingtransportA spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.

  • Tighten the outhaul and place the appropriate line in the cam cleat located on the boom about two feet back from the mast.
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  artsbroadcastingfilmA specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.

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  A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.

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  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityThe longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.

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  A boom barrier; a lowerable bar used to block vehicle access.

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  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.

  • I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
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  gymnasticshobbieslifestyleA 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.

  • 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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  A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.

boomverb詞源 2/buːm/

• 1

  To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.

  • to boom out a sail
  • to boom off a boat
• 2

  To raise or lower with a crane boom.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• sonic boom
• boom microphone