(n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
(n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
(n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
(v. t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
(v. t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
(n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
(n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
(n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
(n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
(n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
(n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
(v. t.) To put boots on, esp. for riding.
(v. t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
(v. i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
(n.) Booty; spoil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(5) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(6) Meanwhile, we have boots on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri.
(7) That would kickstart the spin again and then some, in doublequick time to boot.
(8) Extents of in situ ruminal digestion (72 h residue) for NDF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .05) for full-head than for late-boot-stage bromegrass.
(9) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(10) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(11) William Boot's work was done, and it was time to go home.
(12) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
(13) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(14) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
(16) cc @ kidweil #USMNT March 23, 2013 5 mins of stoppage time we're hearing... 4.00am GMT 88 mins ...Barrantes is over the ball and he drives it low and hard, but Dempsey boots it clear.
(17) Politicians On the surface a recession would be a disaster for Labour, yet it doesn't always follow that the government party gets booted out when times are hard.
(18) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(19) The player can expect another reminder from the boot manufacturer that “all or nothing” must still only be applied within reason.
(20) The box itself is nearly identical to that of the 5S, while a picture of the phone being turned on shows the familiar Apple logo on a boot screen.
Luggage
Definition:
(n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
Example Sentences:
(1) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
(2) People were carrying luggage and fathers carried young children on their shoulders.
(3) But she said on Wednesday that privacy issues prevented her from naming the passenger, who was escorted off the plane along with his two travelling companions and their luggage.
(4) But they don’t keep it secret: it is printed on every piece of luggage.
(5) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
(6) The brand's luggage was supersized, with large holdalls carried by some models.
(7) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
(8) In Knox's case, she was supposed to have gone to work at a bar, and Sollecito was supposed to have gone to a train station to pick up a friend's luggage.
(9) I would like him to acknowledge in front of the court that he realises what it means that he was even in Auschwitz in the first place, let alone that he probably took the luggage from some of the 49 members of my family who were murdered there,” said 90-year-old Eva Fahidi from Budapest who was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager, and last saw her mother and 11-year-old sister on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
(10) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
(11) On July 1, a former U.S. defense attache, David McNevin, was caught at Nairobi airport with illegal ivory in his luggage.
(12) Updated at 2.13pm BST 7.47pm BST Luggages at the crash site of MH17.
(13) Airlines are only obliged to pay passengers a maximum of around £1,200 when their luggage is lost or damaged.
(14) A woman at the United Airlines counter at Beijing airport told Reuters that Chen's luggage was checked in for the flight to Newark, New Jersey, and he was later seen on the flight by reporters.
(15) When boarding the train we found that the space was occupied by people and luggage, luckily they moved without too many dirty looks.
(16) "The train suddenly shook violently, casting luggage all around," Xinhua quoted survivor Liu Hongtao as saying.
(17) Other luggage would probably provide some insulation in the event of a fire in the baggage bins, and many people already check their laptops, but radically increasing the number of batteries in various states of repair in the inaccessible cargo area inevitably increases risk.
(18) A Downing Street spokeswoman did not deny that there had been concern about screening of luggage 10 months ago but refused to elaborate on what exactly the UK had requested in terms of improvements.
(19) The evacuation of British tourists was allowed to proceed after Downing Street said there had been an agreement with the Egyptian authorities on a “package of additional security measures”, including empty holds, extra screening on passengers, and checks on their hand luggage.
(20) Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, who works for the Hong Kong-based Initium media group, was held briefly on 23 August after trying to leave from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport with a flak jacket and helmet in his hand luggage.