Utter vs Boom - What's the difference?
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* Chapman
* Spenser
* Milton
(obsolete) Outward.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
* Atterbury
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To say
To use the voice
To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved
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To make (a noise)
(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation
(label) Further out; further away, outside.
*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:
*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’
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To make a loud, resonant sound.
(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
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To make something boom.
(slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
* (rfdate), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
* Totten
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
* 1990 , Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
(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.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To be prosperous.
(dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
Utter is a related term of boom.
As an adjective utter
is .As a verb utter
is to say.As an adverb utter
is (label) further out; further away, outside.As a noun boom is
.utter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; compare (outer).Adjective
(-)- By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.
- As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.
- Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
- Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.
- So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .
- utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness
- They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.
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Synonyms
* see alsoDerived terms
* utterly * utterness * uttermostEtymology 2
Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.Verb
(en verb)- Don't you utter another word!
- Sally uttered a sigh of relief.
- The dog uttered a growling bark.
- Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.
- Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
Derived terms
* utterance * utterer * utterless * utterableEtymology 3
(etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)boom
English
(wikipedia boom)Etymology 1
Onomatopoetic, perhaps borrowed; compare German (m), Dutch (m).Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- Men in grey robes slowly booming the drums of death.
- If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
- She comes booming down before it.
Derived terms
* boom box * sonic boomNoun
(en noun)- ''The boom of the surf.
- 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.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare English (m).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to boom''' out a sail; to '''boom off a boat
Etymology 3
Or uncertain origin; perhaps a development of Etymology 1, above.Antonyms
* (period of prosperity) recessionVerb
(en verb)- ''Business was booming .
- to boom railroad or mining shares