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boom | boomy |

As a noun boom

is .

As an adjective boomy is

characterized by heavy bass sounds.

boom

English

(wikipedia boom)

Etymology 1

Onomatopoetic, perhaps borrowed; compare German (m), Dutch (m).

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make a loud, resonant sound.
    • 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.
  • (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
  • *
  • To make something boom.
    • Men in grey robes slowly booming the drums of death.
  • (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
  • * (rfdate), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
    • If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
  • To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
  • * Totten
    • She comes booming down before it.
    Derived terms
    * boom box * sonic boom

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
    • ''The boom of the surf.
  • One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
  • * 1990 , Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
    • 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.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare English (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
  • A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
  • A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  • (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones, are transversally mounted.
  • A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill.
  • A wishbone shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  • The arm of a crane (mechanical lifting machine).
  • The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
    • Related terms
    * (nautical) buoy, cathead * crane

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
    • to boom''' out a sail; to '''boom off a boat

    Etymology 3

    Or uncertain origin; perhaps a development of Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics, business) A period of prosperity or high market activity.
    • Antonyms
    * (period of prosperity) recession

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be prosperous.
    • ''Business was booming .
  • (dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
    • to boom railroad or mining shares
    Synonyms
    * (to be prosperous) flourish, prosper
    Derived terms
    * sis boom bah * boom town/boomtown

    Anagrams

    * ----

    boomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
  • * 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio , page 54,
    • If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you.
  • * 2007 , Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology , page 250,
    • As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=For the third movement Mr. Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.}}
  • Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992 , John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States , page 412,
    • Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest . I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be,.
  • * 1903 , Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 7, page 132,
    • A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.
  • * 1979 , Business Week , Issues 2592-2600, page 72,
    • Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.