boom

Etymology 1
, perhaps borrowed; compare,. The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.

Verb

 * 1) To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
 * 2)  To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
 * 3) Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
 * 4)  To make (something) boom.
 * 5)  To subject to a sonic boom.
 * 6)  To publicly praise.
 * 7) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
 * 8)  To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
 * 9)  To flourish, grow, or progress.
 * 10)  To cause to advance rapidly in price.
 * 11)  To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
 * The train boomed off from the station.
 * 1)  To subject to a sonic boom.
 * 2)  To publicly praise.
 * 3) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
 * 4)  To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
 * 5)  To flourish, grow, or progress.
 * 6)  To cause to advance rapidly in price.
 * 7)  To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
 * The train boomed off from the station.
 * 1)  To flourish, grow, or progress.
 * 2)  To cause to advance rapidly in price.
 * 3)  To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
 * The train boomed off from the station.
 * 1)  To cause to advance rapidly in price.
 * 2)  To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
 * The train boomed off from the station.
 * 1)  To cause to advance rapidly in price.
 * 2)  To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
 * The train boomed off from the station.
 * The train boomed off from the station.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , , , jysähtää, , ,
 * Galician: estoupar,
 * Maori: pahū, papā, hū, pakō
 * Portuguese:, ribombar
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: nổ bùm, nổ đùng


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, , jyräyttää, jysäyttää
 * Russian:, грохнул, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: haŭsi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: процвіта́ти

Noun

 * 1) A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
 * 2) A rapid expansion or increase.
 * 3)  A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
 * 4) One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
 * 5)  An instance of booming.
 * 1)  A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
 * 2) One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
 * 3)  An instance of booming.
 * 1) One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
 * 2)  An instance of booming.
 * 1)  An instance of booming.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, бръмчене
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:,  , pamautus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: בּוּם⁩
 * Irish: tormán
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Maori: pakō
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Maori: hū


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: boom
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 景氣繁榮, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: haŭso
 * Finnish: korkeasuhdanne, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: borradh trádála
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ブーム
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 붐
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:

Interjection

 * 1) The sound of a bass drum beating.
 * 2) The sound of a cannon firing.
 * 1) The sound of a bass drum beating.
 * 2) The sound of a cannon firing.
 * 1) The sound of a bass drum beating.
 * 2) The sound of a cannon firing.
 * 1) The sound of a bass drum beating.
 * 2) The sound of a cannon firing.
 * 1) The sound of a cannon firing.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:, kaboem
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: pum, bum
 * German: Bumm
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean: 펑,
 * Maori: hū, pakū
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tày: bồm bồm
 * Vietnamese: bùm, đùng

Etymology 2
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1)   A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
 * 2) A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
 * 3)  A microphone supported on such a pole.
 * 4) A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
 * 5)  The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7)  A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
 * 8) The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
 * 9)  A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
 * 1)  A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: гик
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: poom
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: crann scóide, bum, bumaile
 * Italian:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Maori: kotokoto
 * Norman: bôme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̑м, ланти́на, деблѐњак
 * Roman:, lantína, deblènjak
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 挑杆
 * Esperanto: microphona bastono
 * French:
 * Maori: kauwhanga


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: búm
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: duklay


 * Bulgarian: плаващ бараж
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Catalan:

Verb

 * 1) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
 * 2) (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
 * 1) (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
 * 1) (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

Etymology
From, from , from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) tree

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) tree
 * 2) any solid, pole-shaped, usually wooden object
 * 3) beam
 * 4) mast
 * 5) boom
 * 1) boom

Etymology 2
Borrowed from. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) boom, as in a market explosion

Etymology 3
From with loss of intervocalic -d- (compare /, /, and so forth). Sometimes spelled to indicate the lost consonant (as in ).

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (dramatically fast increase)

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) a  (sound)
 * a, rapid expansion
 * 1) a  (crane)

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) tree
 * 2) beam, pole
 * 3) boom barrier

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   period of prosperity

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  period of prosperity or high market activity