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Booster vs Bolster - What's the difference?

booster | bolster |

As nouns the difference between booster and bolster

is that booster is something that boosts while bolster is a large cushion or pillow.

As a verb bolster is

to brace, reinforce, secure, or support.

booster

English

Noun

(wikipedia booster) (en noun)
  • Something that boosts.
  • The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight
  • A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
  • Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded
    • 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.
  • Someone who promotes a town or business
  • A member of a booster club.
  • A booster dose.
    • When did you get your last tetanus booster ?
  • (linguistics) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".

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    bolster

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large cushion or pillow.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster , / This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.
  • A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
  • * John Gay
    • This arm shall be a bolster for thy head.
  • A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons which give the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
  • A short, horizontal, structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam. Sometimes also called a pillow or cross-head (Australian English).
  • The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
  • The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
  • The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
  • (label) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
  • A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

    • Synonyms

    * Dutch wife

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.

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