Boom is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOOM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make a roaring sound
• make a loud, deep, resonant sound
• say in a loud, deep, resonant voice
• (of a bittern) utter its characteristic resonant cry
• experience a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth
• make a loud deep echoing sound
• To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
• To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
• To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
• To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
• To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
• To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a \"boom\" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.
• make a resonant sound, like artillery
• hit hard
• be the case that thunder is being heard
• make a deep hollow sound
• grow vigorously
NOUN:
• a loud, deep, resonant sound
• the characteristic resonant cry of the bittern
• a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth
• a movable arm over a television or film set, carrying a microphone or camera
• a floating beam used to contain oil spills or to form a barrier across the mouth of a harbour or river.
• A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
• A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
• A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.
• A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.
• A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.
• A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
• A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.
• a deep prolonged loud noise
• a state of economic prosperity
• a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
• a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
• 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
• loud deep echoing sound
• a pivoted spar to which the foot of a vessel's sail is attached, allowing the angle of the sail to be changed.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make a deep, resonant sound

Words related to BOOM

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How to use BOOM in a sentence

• Many hundreds of thousands of dollars changed hands during the boom.
• Another boom, and a shot struck the ground ten paces from him, and he wheeled about and ran, until a third shot struck a house before him.
• Its introduction inaugurated a new boom in the use of the telephone.
• Shower after shower burst over them heavily, and there was a continual boom of thunder in their ears.
• The small driver owned by the Boom Company drove similar clumps here, there and everywhere that need arose or weakness developed.
• The surf roared tremendously on the rocks, on either hand, and the boom of the more distant breakers came to my ear like the wind in a pine forest.
• For weeks we heard the distant boom of the guns steadily drawing nearer day by day, and all night the sky was lit up by distant flashes.
• The road to Boom is like all the main roads of Belgium.
• Americans jumped in, bought up large tracts, and started a lively real estate boom.
• The rattle of musketry and the boom of heavy guns all through the night reminded us of our vicinity to the theatre of war, and somewhat disturbed our rest.
• Through the open window the dull boom of artillery could constantly be heard.
• What is that deep rumbling in the distance? Thunder! Nearer and nearer it sounds, and presently we hear it overhead above the din of the musketry and the boom of the cannon.
• Up went the muzzle, and then came a deafening boom.
• Forthwith the trumpet shriek of the siren sent its wild boom across the silent waters.
• The hour of the ox struck at Gekkeiji, filling this whole district with its heavy boom.
• Having removed the boom, Sir James Wallace also, with a squadron of small frigates, ascended up the river, and burned many American vessels.
• The Inter-Cosmopolitan had got pretty near finished, when the boom exploded with a loud sigh.
• Such a moral boom of a book would be almost impossible in Ireland, because the Irish mind distinguishes between life and literature.
• Cut a number of short pieces of heavy twine, and lace the sail, at intervals of a foot, to the boom and mast.
• And, even as he spoke, it came again, the heavy boom of a single huge cannon, followed almost immediately by the crash of thousands upon thousands of rifles.
• Darrin turned quickly, bending to glance under the boom, for the mainsail was in his way.
• Boom! Over by the ridge where Gage and his fellow rascals lay it looked as though a volcano had started in operation on a small scale.
• This great pocket of cord, fit to hold perhaps a bushel or more, is swung from the boom above, and lowered into the midst of the catch.
• Suddenly a great globe of sound fell from an adjacent church-tower, and exploded on the night with a deep metallic boom.
• I met him in Tahlequah when I was out there during the land boom, and we got thick.

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