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Emerg vs Boom - What's the difference?

emerg | boom |

As nouns the difference between emerg and boom

is that emerg is the emergency department of a hospital while boom is .

emerg

English

Noun

  • The emergency department of a hospital.
  • * 2009 , January 17, Daniel Dale, “Ambulance waits get longer”, Toronto Star:
  • These EMS people, who should just walk into the emerg', drop their patient off, and then leave, are frozen in the ' emerg for a long period of time, because there aren't enough resources there.
  • * 2009 , May 26, Theresa Boyle and Tanya Talaga, “ Swine flu Factor Probed in death”, Toronto Star:
  • “Rather than going to emerg and getting admitted and having the condition over a period of time, we understand that the event happened fairly quickly.
  • * 2009 , October 1, Theresa Boyle, “ Second swine-flu wave hits Toronto, southern Ontario”, Toronto Star:
  • “What we've seen in the last few days is a number of cases that have come to emerg departments.

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    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.
  • 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

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