boot

Etymology 1
From, , from. Of obscure origin, but probably related to, , from Old , from , , from , ; if so, a. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. More at and.

Noun

 * 1)  A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
 * 2)  A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
 * 3)  A blow with the foot; a kick.
 * 4)  A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
 * 5)  Oppression, an oppressor.
 * 6)  A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
 * 7)  A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
 * 8)  A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
 * 9)  A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
 * 10)  A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
 * 11)  A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
 * 12)  The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
 * 13)  The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
 * 14)  An unattractive person, ugly woman.
 * 15)  A black person.
 * 16)  A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
 * 17)  A bobbled ball.
 * 18)  The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
 * 19)  A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
 * 20)  A tyre.
 * 21)  A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
 * 1)  An unattractive person, ugly woman.
 * 2)  A black person.
 * 3)  A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
 * 4)  A bobbled ball.
 * 5)  The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
 * 6)  A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
 * 7)  A tyre.
 * 8)  A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
 * 1)  A tyre.
 * 2)  A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
 * 1)  A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

Synonyms

 * , dicky
 * , dicky
 * , dicky

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: kee hadago ndeezí
 * Arabic: جَزْمَة, بسطار (army boots)
 * Egyptian Arabic: بوت
 * Hijazi Arabic: بوت
 * Aragonese: bota
 * Armenian: երկարաճիտ կոշիկ, ճտքակոշիկ ,
 * Asturian: bota
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: итек
 * Belarusian: чараві́к, бот, боцік
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: jombo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 靴
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: botas, botasen
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stivli, stilvi
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: წაღა, ჩექმა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἁρπίς, κρηπίς
 * Greenlandic: kamik
 * Haitian Creole: bòt
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: saapas
 * Interlingua: botta
 * Irish:, buatais
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ស្បែកជើង, ស្បែកជើងកវែង
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: چەکمە
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: pero, cothurnus, caliga
 * Latvian: zābaks
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Stiwwel
 * Macedonian: чизма
 * Malay: kasut but
 * Maltese: buzza
 * Manchu: ᡤᡡᠯᡥᠠ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: ké deigo nineezí
 * Nogai: этик
 * Norman: botte
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: støvel
 * Occitan: botèl
 * Old East Slavic: плесница, сапогъ
 * Pashto: موزه
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Steewel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: stival, stivagl, stivel
 * Russian:, , ,   (singular: )
 * Scottish Gaelic: bòtann
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чи̏зма
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: stivala
 * Slovak: čižma
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: башмак, ӧдӱк
 * Spanish:
 * Sudovian: skarne
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: ботинка, мӯза
 * Taos: bútoną
 * Telugu: బూటు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ädik,
 * Ukrainian: чо́біт, череви́к
 * Urdu: بوٹ
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, botas, botasen
 * Yagnobi: мӯза
 * Yiddish: שטיוול


 * Dutch:, beschermhuls
 * Finnish: suojakumi
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: ներբանք
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: чи́зма


 * Swedish: vagnslåda


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: paisunut lippulehden tuppi

Verb

 * 1)  To kick.
 * 2) To put boots on, especially for riding.
 * 3)  To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
 * The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
 * We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
 * 1)  To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
 * 2)  To eject; kick out.
 * We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
 * The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
 * 1)  To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
 * 2)  To vomit.
 * Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
 * 1)  To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
 * 1)  To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
 * 2)  To vomit.
 * Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
 * 1)  To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
 * 1)  To vomit.
 * Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
 * 1)  To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

Usage notes
The more common term for “to eject from a chatroom” etc. is kick.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: кло́ца
 * Norman: botter
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: vetää saappaat jalkaan
 * Ido:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: eruitgooien,, eruittrappen
 * Finnish: heittää ulos
 * French:
 * Russian: вы́пнуть
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: eruitgooien,, eruittrappen
 * Finnish: heittää ulos,
 * French:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from , from , from.

Akin to 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. (a borrowing from Middle English).

Noun

 * 1)  Remedy, amends.
 * 2)  Profit, plunder.
 * 3)  That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
 * 4)  Profit; gain; advantage; use.
 * 5)  Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
 * 6)  A medicinal cure or remedy.
 * 1)  Profit; gain; advantage; use.
 * 2)  Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
 * 3)  A medicinal cure or remedy.
 * 1)  Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
 * 2)  A medicinal cure or remedy.
 * 1)  A medicinal cure or remedy.

Translations

 * Swedish:, , , , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To be beneficial, to help.
 * 2) * 1678, “A Sermon found in the study of Bishop Andrews” in , The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln, London: Richard Marriot, p. 262,
 * What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
 * 1)  To matter; to be relevant.
 * 2)  To enrich.
 * 1)  To matter; to be relevant.
 * 2)  To enrich.
 * 1)  To matter; to be relevant.
 * 2)  To enrich.
 * 1)  To enrich.
 * 1)  To enrich.
 * 1)  To enrich.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Swedish:, , , (till)

Etymology 3
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Noun

 * 1)   The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

Translations

 * Esperanto: praŝarĝo, startigo
 * Finnish:, uudelleenkäynnistys,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, bootolás, rendszerindítás
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)   To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: praŝarĝi
 * Estonian: buutimine, buutima
 * Finnish:, bootata
 * French: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:, inna ræsiforrit
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakaoho, whakaara
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish: wykonać rozruch,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Soussian: awl i
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 4
From, by shortening.

Noun

 * 1)  A bootleg recording.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: copie pirate

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) boot (footwear)

Verb

 * 1) to boot; to boot up

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Noun

 * 1) mold

Etymology
From *buut, from.

Noun

 * 1) squirrel

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)   the act or process of bootstrapping
 * 2)  sneaker

Adjective

 * 1) big

Noun

 * 1) nose