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Noun boom has 5 senses
- boom, roar, roaring, thunder - a deep prolonged loud noise
--1 is a kind of noise
- boom - a state of economic prosperity
--2 is a kind of prosperity
- boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"
--3 is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
- boom, microphone boom - a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
--4 is a kind of pole
- boom - any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
--5 is a kind of spar
--5 is a part of sailing vessel, sailing ship
Verb boom has 5 senses
- boom, din - make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall"
--1 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentences:
Cars boom in the streets
The streets boom with cars
- smash, nail, boom, blast - hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
--2 is one way to hit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- thunder, boom - be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"
Sample sentences:
It was booming all day long
The business is going to boom
- boom, boom out - make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song"
--4 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish, expand - grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
--5 is one way to grow
Sample sentence:
The business is going to boom
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