(n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
(n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
(n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.
(n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.
(n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.
(v. t.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
(v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
(v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
(v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
(v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
(n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
(n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.
(v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(3) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
(4) Japan's 2% growth this year would be boosted by a construction boom after the tsunami in 2011 , while China would expand by 8.2% in 2012 and 9.3% in 2013.
(5) Midwives are facing increasing pressure with chronic staff shortages, the ongoing baby boom and increasing numbers of complications in pregnancy.
(6) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(7) According to unconfirmed reports, he made up to £3m a year through the years of boom and bust and he now owns a £4m home in Fulham and another worth £2m in Chelsea.
(8) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(9) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(10) & I'm like, babes, listen, I think Anna really is going to come & he's like, so I'll have what she's having, boom :(
(11) It is true that rail travel has seen a boom over the past 10 years.
(12) Malone's critics say he overpaid on a series of investments only to watch his firm's share price collapse with the end of the dotcom boom.
(13) However, the advent of the polymerase chain reaction, coupled with a boom in funding for human immunodeficiency virus research have moved retroviral research apace, raising questions as to whether novel contributions would be realized.
(14) Although the extra capital investment in schools is being portrayed as a reward for Gove for controlling his departmental budget, the government has little choice but to offer more cash due to the growing shortage of school places in the south-east caused by immigration and the baby boom.
(15) The first attempted to determine a sonic boom level below which startle would not occurr.
(16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(17) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
(18) Barack Obama has defied a Republican Congress to move ahead on his climate agenda on Wednesday, cracking down on methane emissions from America’s oil and natural gas boom.
(19) The endless immaturity of the baby-boom generation must surely be coming to a close, as we learn, at last, to grow up.
(20) In contrast to the aggressive capitalism of the US, for example, he observed that in spite of the Victorian boom: “England did not become a business society ...
Coom
Definition:
(n.) Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast the toxicities and mutagenic potentials of Group B compounds (COOMe, NMe2, and two other bulky amine derivatives) were reduced by at least an order of magnitude, with uvrB and recA deletions showing lesser influence.
(2) The event starts at 5pm and my cab had me and my companion – LA actor and comic Sarah Coomes – there at about 3.15pm, in broad daylight and thin drizzle.
(3) CGase also transferred the oligosaccharide from GM1 to CF3CO-NH(CH2)5CH2OH, (CH3)3CO-CO-NH(CH2)5CH2OH, (HOCH2)3C-NHCO-(CH2)4-COOMe, CH2 = CH-(CH2)7CH2OH and 1,2:3,4-di-O-isopropylidene-D-galactopyranose.
(4) OCH(CF3)COOMe (R = Me, Et, Pr, Pri, Bu, Bui, Am, Hex) (I-VIII) with human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase, horse serum butyrylcholinesterase, pig liver carboxylesterase was studied and acute toxicity in mice was estimated.
(5) In general, the only aberrant effects of cefamandole were the appearance of eosinophilia in 28% of patients and a positive indirect Cooms' test without hemolysis in one patient.
(6) Several of the highly cytotoxic 4-substituted nitracrine derivatives showed HFs similar to that of the parent, but the less potent 4-dialkylamino and 4-COOMe derivatives showed much lower HFs for UV-4, suggesting that different mechanisms of cytotoxicity contribute.
(7) The tetrapeptides CHO-Met-Leu-Phe-CO-NH-(CH2)n-COOMe (n = 1-5) have been synthesized.
(8) Two friends in Portland – where Smith lived until he moved to Brooklyn two years ago – are Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss.
(9) Coomes was in Heatmiser, a grungy Portland band Smith formed after he was a fireman; Weiss plays drums in Sleater-Kinney.
(10) Corticosteroids enable the treatment of acute rejection crises in transplantation, they have a symptomatic effect on type I and IV Gel and Cooms hypersensitivity reaction, their activity is less regular in the other phenomena of hypersensitivity.
(11) The binding site contains two pockets, one for the imidazole group, and another for the -COOMe group.
(12) We found that an increase in phosphorylation of numatrin was associated with stimulation of the cells with insulin for 4 h and that the level of phosphorylation remained elevated after 8 h. By this time there was no increase in numatrin abundance as shown by Coom-massie blue stain and Western blot analysis.
(13) It was also a competitive inhibitor with respect to the alternate acceptor beta DGal(1----3)beta DGlcNAcO(CH2)8-COOMe.
(14) The replacement of one of the phenolic hydroxyl groups of this THC derivative with an electron-withdrawing group (COMe, COOMe, CONH2, CN, or NO2) yields unsymmetrical THCs with binding affinities 15-40% that of estradiol (E2).
(15) The COOMe derivative was the only compound showing greater effects at the hisC3076 locus than the hisD3052 or hisG46 loci.