Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BOOT

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Definitions of BOOT

1. To put boots on, especially for riding.
2. (construction) 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.
3. (usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
4. (aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
5. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
6. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
7. (US, military, police, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
8. (Australia, British, NZ, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
9. (informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
10. (British, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
11. (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
12. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
13. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
14. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
15. (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
16. (slang, motorsports) A tyre.
17. (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
18. (transitive) To kick.
19. (colloquial, North America, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
20. (informal) To eject; kick out.
21. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
22. (slang) To vomit.
23. (MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
24. (archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.
25. (uncountable) Profit, plunder.
26. (countable, uncountable) 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.
27. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
28. (obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings. [to mid-17th c.]
29. (obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy. [to mid-16th c.]
30. (transitiveorintransitive, impersonal) To be beneficial, to help.
31. (intransitive, impersonal) To matter; to be relevant.
32. (transitive, rare) To enrich.
33. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
34. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
35. (informal) A bootleg recording.
36. A surname.
37. Initialism of Build–own–operate–transfer.
38. (footwear) A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
39. (uncountable) A blow with the foot; a kick.
40. (metaphorical, with definite article) Oppression, an oppressor.
41. (US, transportation) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
42. A small village in Eskdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, England previously in, Copeland (OS grid ref NY1701).

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Examples of Using BOOT in a Sentence

• The BIOS in older PCs initializes and tests the system hardware components (power-on self-test or POST for short), and loads a boot loader from a mass storage device which then initializes a kernel.
• It is shaped like a boot, with two large volcanic formations separated by a valley that bisects the island at its narrowest point.
• Marines through their boot camp training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.
• In the north, the Gargano promontory extends out into the Adriatic sea like a "sperone" ("spur"), while in the south, the Salento peninsula forms the "tacco" ("heel") of Italy's boot.
• The chroniclers William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis wrote that his father had derisively called him brevis-ocrea ("short boot").
• It can also create flat binary files, usable to write boot loaders, read-only memory (ROM) images, and in various facets of OS development.
• Portuguese striker Eusébio was the tournament's top scorer, with nine goals clinching the golden boot with three goals more than second placed Helmut Haller.
• Unlike in traditional skates where the blade is rigidly fixed to the boot, clap skates have the blade attached to the boot by a hinge at the front.
• Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid 16-bit and 32-bit monolithic product with the boot stage based on MS-DOS.
• The region can be thought of as the "arch" of the "boot" of Italy, with Calabria functioning as the "toe" and Apulia the "heel".
• Volume boot record, in computer disks, a type of boot sector that contains code for bootstrapping programs.
• There are three current versions of how the town was named: firstly, that a fork in the road made a boot jack shape (basically, a "Y"); second, that a landmark tree at the place had a bootjack shape; and third, that after a horse thief's hanging at the place, a bootjack was used to remove his boots.
• A city directory listed 15 grocery stores, four bakeries, six boot makers, seven confectioneries, two livery stables, a blacksmith, three millinaries, six doctors, seven saloons, and a wagon manufacturer.
• Other industries included a starch factory, tannery, furniture factory, boot and shoe factory, carriage maker, and harness maker.
• By 1859, when the population was 1,925, it had two factories for making boot-webbing and binding, a shovel and hoe factory, a tannery, a machine shops, some mechanic shops, some wood turning shops, a sleigh and carriage factory, some boot and shoe shops, a carpet factory, and a sash, blind and door factory.
• The town had numerous sawmills, a gristmill, furniture factory, bobbin factory and a boot and shoe factory.
• In 1886, it had five lumber mills; three cooperages; a sash; blind and pump factory; four carriage factories; a tannery; a boot and shoe factory; and a coffin and bedstead factory.
• Along with the Sudbury River, the railroad helped to attract numerous mills to develop a bustling boot and shoe industry.
• Some small scale boot and shoe making was underway by 1820, and by 1850 small sheds or shops to make shoes were attached to almost every house in town.
• It was not long before the water power of the Charles River and Chicken Brook stimulated the formation of cotton and paper mills, straw and boot factories, and a variety of cottage industries.

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