Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BOOM

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Definitions of BOOM

1. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
2. Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
4. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
5. A rapid expansion or increase.
6. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
7. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
8. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
9. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
10. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
11. A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
12. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
13. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
14. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
15. The sound of a bass drum beating.
16. The sound of a cannon firing.
17. A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.
18. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
19. (transitive) To make something boom.
20. (aviation) To subject to a sonic boom.
21. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
22. (chessengines) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
23. (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
24. (chessengines) An instance of booming.
25. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
26. Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
27. (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
28. (by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.
29. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
30. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
31. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
32. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.

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Examples of Using BOOM in a Sentence

• Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth for many years.
• A post-Khmer Rouge baby boom pushed the population above 10 million, although growth has slowed in recent years.
• The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
• In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Ireland experienced a major population boom as a result of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
• Kista is the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) cluster in Europe, and was ranked the world's second largest cluster after Silicon Valley in California during the internet boom of 2000.
• Following a boom in the 1990s and 2000s, PDA's were mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of more highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android in the late 2000's, and thus saw a rapid decline.
• He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
• The Pixies are associated with the 1990s alternative rock boom, and draw on elements including punk rock and surf rock.
• Since the early-2000s, Rwanda has witnessed an economic boom, which improved the living standards of many Rwandans.
• South Korea's education system and the establishment of a motivated and educated populace were largely responsible for spurring the country's high technology boom and economic development.
• The area experienced a boom in villa building roughly coinciding with the period of Savoyard (1713–21) and Habsburg (1721–30) rule and continuing for several decades thereafter.
• He was one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy.
• Founded as a mining camp during the Colorado Silver Boom and later named Aspen for the abundance of aspen trees in the area, the city boomed during the 1880s, its first decade.
• The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.
• From the 13th century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade.
• Fears of a "population explosion" existed in the mid-20th century baby boom years, but the book and its authors brought the idea to an even wider audience.
• Addis Ababa saw a wide-scale economic boom in 1926 and 1927, and an increase in the number of buildings owned by the middle class, including stone houses filled with imported European furniture.
• As the Industrial Revolution converted western societies from agrarian to industrial in the 18th and 19th centuries, photography and lithography contributed to the boom of an advertising industry that integrated typography and imagery together on the page.
• Established at the outset of the punk rock boom, Stiff signed various punk rock and new wave acts such as Nick Lowe, the Damned, Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, and Devo, also signing artists with significant crossover appeal such as Motörhead, Larry Wallis and Mick Farren.
• The first human-made supersonic boom was likely caused by a piece of common cloth, leading to the whip's eventual development.
• Stockfish is very nutrient-rich and was consumed domestically, although it was during the boom in the stockfish trade in the late Middle Ages that it became accessible throughout Scandinavia as well as the rest of Europe.
• The 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis produced a decline in GDP and employment that has since been reversed entirely by a recovery aided by a tourism boom starting in 2010.
• One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print.
• The early fourteenth century, a period of economic boom for Brabant, marks the rise of the duchy's towns, which depended on imports of English wool for their essential cloth industry.
• His achievement spurred significant global interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, which revolutionized the aviation industry worldwide (a phenomenon dubbed the "Lindbergh boom"), and he spent much time promoting these industries.

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