Noun: boom
Sample Sentences
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the boom of the surf
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You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.
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Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs. [1941 March, “Notes and News: The Demand for Slate”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:]
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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. [1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception:]
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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. [2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:]
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The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me! [2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022:]
Nouns inflected like boom
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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.
Verbs referencing "boom"
French Nouns
boom, English Nouns
bogart, German Nouns
Boom, Finnish Nouns
buumi, Russian Nouns
бум, Ukrainian Nouns
бум.