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boom English

Meaning boom meaning

What does boom mean?
Definitions in simple English

boom Noun

— A boom is the sound that is made from an explosion. The boom of that volcano hurt my ears. — A boom can also be any movable pole; in sailing, it is a pole that comes from the bottom of a sail.

boom Verb

— To boom is to make a loud sound.

boom

— verb make a resonant sound, like artillery His deep voice boomed through the hall — noun a deep prolonged loud noise — verb (= smash) hit hard He smashed a 3-run homer — verb (= boom out) make a deep hollow sound Her voice booms out the words of the song — noun a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line — noun any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring — noun a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set — verb (= thrive) grow vigorously The deer population in this town is thriving business is booming — noun a state of economic prosperity — verb (= thunder) be the case that thunder is being heard Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed

Synonyms boom synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as boom?

boom English » English

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Topics boom topics

What do people use boom to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Lightning, thunder
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Loud
Work and occupation Business organization

Economics
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Break
States Quantity More

Increase
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Recorded music
Social behavior Social activity Music

Play music

Conjugation boom conjugation

How do you conjugate boom?

boom · verb

Examples boom examples

How do I use boom in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The small car boom is ending.
The Japanese economy was in an unprecedented boom at that time.

Movie subtitles

Now is the time to buy while the new boom is on.
Dad, is this boom set in here just right?
He bops them over. 1, 2, 3, boom! Just like that.
There's a concentrated effort at readjustment to normal peacetime activity but unemployment, coming in the wake of the wartime boom is beginning to grip the country.
That boom almost makes me jump out of my skin.
Boom!
Hey, Lucky, lower your boom.
Boom. And you're in the hero department, just like that.
I had a boom across, and netted them like salmon.
Yeah, big boom!
Hey, do you remember the boom we had after the last war?
Well, the boom we're gonna have after this one'll make the last look like a mild flurry.
St. Louis is headed for a boom that'll make your head swim.
The boom was over.
Why didn't you boom into his office the way you boom into poor old Metford?
And even if I might get robbed six times by seven men, I keep on hitting my big drum, I keep on making boom boom boom!
He bops them over. 1, 2, 3, boom!
In spring you've many avalanches. The snow go boom!
All right, we're going to follow you on the boom from here inside the inn.
Boom--and you're in the hero department.
No work, no nothing. Just smile at the birdie, and boom! You're in.
They were giving a dinner party at one of those sprawling country clubs which were so much a part of the American scene in the early days of the postwar boom.
Elevator, kiss, boom, rush to the altar.
Ziss-boom bah.
Just ripe for an oil boom.
I owned the hotel, so I stayed, waiting for another boom.
Boom.
Avast the boom.
Of course, we're in the backwash of the war boom now but the tide is running out fast.
Big postwar boom in homicide.
Every day in Venice at noon, you hear, boom.
Staffed by experts but under the supervision of men who know what it is to top a boom, to batten down a hatch, to weigh an anchor.
He's been trying to lower the boom on me for years. One mistake and I'm out. Afraid I'm going to get his job or something.
And boom--you'd land right at the piano and start to play.
It's a sonic boom. Since it flies at supersonic speeds, it's natural that its wings create the phenomenon.

News and current affairs

These are national funds that, in boom years, receive revenues from sales of natural resources to be set aside against a rainy day.
But the boom is not uniform.
The driving force is external demand, as Germany, the world's second-largest exporter, profits from the global boom.
Measured against a disappointing past, even Germany is currently experiencing an economic boom.
Higher interest rates to reduce the housing boom seem, even in retrospect, ill advised if the cost is mass unemployment.
As a result, its stock market is frothy, and it is experiencing an alarming property boom.
It is not like the US government, running a huge deficit despite an economic boom, does not need the money.
The Spanish government, for example, could have met Spain's building boom and foreign-trade deficit with tax increases or by urging domestic wage restraint.
NEW HAVEN - We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public.
A Putin Boom?
Most benefited from the economic growth and expanded educational opportunities associated with the oil boom of the 1970's.
The first big city to boom was London, starting around 1996.
Boom mentality spread to Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney around 1997, to Paris in 1998, to Miami, Moscow, and Shanghai in 2001, and Vancouver around 2002.
Has the boom ended?
In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real-estate boom.
As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.
To acknowledge the truth would have meant admitting that for years they had overlooked the build-up of an unsustainable construction boom that now threatens to bankrupt the entire country.
In some countries, most notably the US, a private-sector credit boom created jobs in low-skilled industries like construction, and precipitated a consumption boom as people borrowed against overvalued houses.
Residential investment is still at an historic low as a share of GDP as a result of overbuilding during the 2003-2008 housing boom and the tsunami of foreclosures that followed.
His daughter is proud of his legacy, which marked the beginning of South Korea's economic boom.
What kind of economic boom might stagnating Pakistan enjoy if patriarchy relaxed its grip?
During the last three years, Latin America has experienced an economic boom without precedent.
Neighboring Brazil helped by undergoing a boom of its own, which pumped up demand for a wide range of Argentine products.
They poured money in; Argentina seemed to boom.

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