(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 ...
Outboard
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
(2) Occupants in all four outboard seating positions (that is, driver and right front passenger, right and left rear passengers) serve as "other" occupants.
(3) The effectiveness of two-point motorized restraint systems in preventing fatalities to outboard front-seat car occupants is estimated using published fatality data for one model car equipped with a motorized two-point-belt system, together with a number of assumptions.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Analysis of the recovered right outboard wing flap section (inverted) of MH370 suggested it was not set for landing at the time it separated from the plane.
(5) A new report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) suggests the plane was in a “high and increasing rate of descent” at the time of its final satellite communications, and that the right outboard wing flap found on Pemba island was not deployed at the time of the crash.
(6) The 1974 and early-1975 model automobiles are equipped with belt interlock systems that require front outboard seat occupants who weigh more than 21.5 kg (47.3 lb) to wear threepoint lap and diagonal upper-torso belts (or wear the lap belt and position upper-torso belt behind them), assuming that the interlock has not been circumvented.
(7) Seven cases of injury from an outboard motor propeller are reported and the literature reviewed.
(8) Most have started to substitute the expensive diesel they must traditionally import to generate electricity with renewable energy, including coconut power – biodiesel derived from homegrown coconut palms to power cars and outboard motors.
(9) Two pieces of aircraft debris found washed up on remote beaches of the Indian Ocean have been confirmed as being from MH370, with the latest – an outboard flap from Pemba Island – discovered only this month.
(10) Soon the two of them were in a plank skiff being pushed east by Claude's five-horse Champion, a smoky old outboard he had to pull on ten times before it would even pop, the first tugs on the rope making only the noise of a startled hen.
(11) Disaggregating the "other" occupant by restraint use generates six estimates of restraint system effectiveness for each of the two rear outboard positions.
(12) Recent legislation has eliminated the interlock requirement, but new models are still likely to be fitted with three-point restraints for the front outboard seating positions.
(13) The monitor also indicates small outboard circuit leaks and responds to cardiac pulsations when respiratory deflections disappear after succinylcholine administration or hyperventilation.
(14) Alison Rourke We probably should have twigged that something was wrong when the outboard motor on the dinghy failed on day one.
(15) He killed the outboard, fearing that the very sea around them could erupt into flames.
(16) Goldfish (Carassius auratus) were exposed to outboard exhaust products in water or to toluene (a constituent of outboard motor exhaust water) via a continuous flow bioassay dosing apparatus.
(17) A few Greek men on the beach, who were on the lookout for boats and outboard motors they could claim and maybe resell, assisted them.
(18) They are often square, with upturned boats providing cover for sleeping and the most rudimentary workshops for repairing outboard engines.