'Boom' definitions:
Definition of 'boom'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A state of economic prosperity
noun
A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]
noun
A pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set [syn: boom, microphone boom]
noun
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
verb
Make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" [syn: boom, din]
verb
verb
Be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed" [syn: thunder, boom]
verb
Make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song" [syn: boom, boom out]
verb
Definition of 'Boom'
From: GCIDE
- Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), n. [D. boom tree, pole, beam, bar. See Beam.]
- 1. (Naut.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mech.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mil. & Naval) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Lumbering) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. [1913 Webster]
- Boom iron, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse.
- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Boom'
From: GCIDE
- Boom \Boom\, n.
- 1. A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Boom'
From: GCIDE
- Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. t. (Naut.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Boom'
From: GCIDE
- Boom \Boom\, v. t. To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Boom'
From: GCIDE
- Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]
- 1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. [1913 Webster]
- At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. [1913 Webster]
- Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. [1913 Webster]
- She comes booming down before it. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'boom'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accrue,
- accruement,
- accumulate,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- appreciate,
- appreciation,
- arch dam,
- ascent,
- augmentation,
- awake the dead,
- backfire,
- backstop,
- ball the jack,
- balloon,
- ballooning,
- balsa,
- balsa raft,
- bamboo curtain,
- bang,
- bank,
- bar,
- bark,
- barrage,
- barrel,
- barrier,
- batten,
- bawl,
- be reflected,
- be sent back,
- beam,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- bellow,
- birr,
- blare,
- blast,
- blast the ear,
- blat,
- bloat,
- bloating,
- bloom,
- blossom,
- blowout,
- blowup,
- blubber,
- board,
- bob,
- bombilate,
- bombinate,
- boom,
- booming,
- booming economy,
- boost,
- bottoming out,
- bounce back,
- bowl along,
- bray,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- breathe,
- breed,
- breeze,
- breeze along,
- brick wall,
- broaden,
- broadening,
- brush,
- buffer,
- buildup,
- bulkhead,
- bull market,
- bulwark,
- bum,
- buoy,
- burgeon,
- burgeoning,
- burr,
- burst,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- cannonade,
- cant hook,
- Carling float,
- cast loose,
- chant,
- chirp,
- clap,
- clap on ratlines,
- claw bar,
- clear hawse,
- clip,
- cofferdam,
- coo,
- cooling off,
- cork,
- crack,
- crank,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- crisis,
- crow,
- crowbar,
- cut along,
- cut loose,
- dam,
- deafen,
- defense,
- depression,
- detonation,
- develop,
- development,
- dike,
- din,
- discharge,
- ditch,
- downturn,
- drawl,
- drone,
- earthwork,
- echo,
- echo back,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- edema,
- elevation,
- embankment,
- enlargement,
- exclaim,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- explode,
- explosion,
- extension,
- fatten,
- fence,
- fill the air,
- flare,
- flash,
- fleet,
- flit,
- float,
- flood,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flute,
- fly,
- fly low,
- foot,
- fulguration,
- fulmination,
- gain,
- gain strength,
- gasp,
- gate,
- get ahead,
- go fast,
- go up,
- gravity dam,
- greatening,
- groin,
- grow,
- grow fat,
- growl,
- growling,
- growth,
- grumble,
- grumbling,
- grunt,
- gush,
- handspike,
- haul,
- haul down,
- heave,
- heave apeak,
- heave round,
- heave short,
- high growth rate,
- highball,
- hike,
- hiss,
- hum,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- intensify,
- iron crow,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- jimmy,
- jump,
- kedge,
- keen,
- land-office business,
- lay,
- lay aloft,
- leap,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- lever,
- life buoy,
- life preserver,
- life raft,
- lilt,
- limb,
- log,
- logjam,
- low,
- make knots,
- market expansion,
- marlinespike,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- mound,
- mount,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- multiply,
- mumble,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nip,
- outrigger,
- outstrip the wind,
- pant,
- parapet,
- peak,
- peaking,
- peal,
- peavey,
- pedal,
- pinch bar,
- pipe,
- pontoon,
- portcullis,
- pour it on,
- prize,
- productiveness,
- profitability,
- progress,
- proliferate,
- proliferation,
- prosper,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- pry,
- purr,
- raft,
- raise,
- rampart,
- ratline down,
- rattle the windows,
- reboation,
- rebound,
- recession,
- recovery,
- reecho,
- rend the air,
- rend the ears,
- report,
- resonate,
- resound,
- resounding,
- return,
- reverberate,
- reverberation,
- ring,
- rip,
- ripping bar,
- rise,
- roadblock,
- roar,
- roaring trade,
- rock the sky,
- rock-fill dam,
- roll,
- rumble,
- rumbling,
- run up,
- scorch,
- scream,
- screech,
- seawall,
- send back,
- shoot up,
- shriek,
- shutter dam,
- sibilate,
- sigh,
- sing,
- sizzle,
- skim,
- slam,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- smash,
- snap,
- snarl,
- snort,
- snowball,
- snowballing,
- sob,
- sound,
- spar,
- spar down,
- speed,
- split the eardrums,
- split the ears,
- spread,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeal,
- startle the echoes,
- stone wall,
- storm along,
- stream the log,
- strengthen,
- stun,
- surfboard,
- surge,
- sweep,
- swell,
- swelling,
- tear,
- tear along,
- thrive,
- thrum,
- thunder,
- thunder along,
- thundering,
- traverse a yard,
- treadle,
- trumpet,
- tumescence,
- twang,
- unlash,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- wail,
- wall,
- warble,
- warp,
- wax,
- waxing,
- weir,
- wham,
- whine,
- whir,
- whisk,
- whisper,
- whiz,
- wicket dam,
- widen,
- widening,
- work,
- wrecking bar,
- yap,
- yawp,
- yell,
- yelp,
- zing,
- zip,
- zoom