boom

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /buːm/    美 /bum/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — Tighten the outhaul and place the appropriate line in the cam cleat located on the boom about two feet back from the mast.
  2. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
    — the boom of the surf
  3. A rapid expansion or increase.
    — You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.
  4. A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
  5. Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole). abbreviation,alt-of,broadly,ellipsis
  6. A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
  7. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  8. Ellipsis of sonic boom. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  9. The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
  10. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
    — Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.
  11. 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.
    — I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
  12. An instance of booming. slang
    — Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant.
  13. A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
    — The wooden upright was now standing in the middle of the floor, and the two booms were fitted into its grooved side and hoisted as high as hands could reach. [...] Two by two, one at each end, the students proceeded along the boom, hanging by their hands, monkey-wise. [...] Two by two the students somersaulted upwards on to the high boom, turned to a sitting position sideways, and then slowly stood up on the narrow ledge.
  14. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  15. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
动词 v.
  1. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
    — to boom out a sail
  2. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
    — Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
  3. To raise or lower with a crane boom. usually
  4. To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. figuratively,transitive
    — I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich – or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. [...] “I'd give a tenner to have Aubrey Upjohn here at this moment.” “You can get him for nothing. He's in Uncle Tom's study.” Her face lit up. “He is?” [Aunt Dahlia] threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.”
  5. To flourish, grow, or progress. intransitive
    — The population boomed in recent years.
  6. To make (something) boom. transitive
    — Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.
  7. To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
    — Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly[.]
  8. To cause a sonic boom. intransitive
  9. To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom. slang,transitive
  10. To publicly praise, to rally behind. US,obsolete,slang
    — If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
  11. To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
    — The train boomed through the station without stopping.
  12. To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss. slang
    — It can get fast enough that it's hard to see what flashed on your screen though, so it would be nice if chess engines had a feature of persistently showing you what move they planned to play before they boomed, even if it took less than a second for them to figure it out.
  13. To cause to advance rapidly in price. dated,transitive
    — to boom railroad or mining shares
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
    — crash boom bang
  2. Used to suggest something happening suddenly or unexpectedly; voilà.
    — Add one cup of hot water, wait a minute, and boom — your cup of ramen is ready.
  3. The sound of a bass drum beating.
  4. The sound of a cannon firing.

词形变化

booms present,singular,third-person booming participle,present boomed participle,past boomed past booms plural booms plural booms present,singular,third-person booming participle,present boomed participle,past boomed past

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). 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.
词源 2
Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.
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