Word Finder - boom

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A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

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The boom of the surf.

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A rapid expansion or increase.

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You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.

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One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.

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To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

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I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.

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(of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.

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To make something boom.

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Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.

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To publicly praise.

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To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

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Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.

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Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.

Each boom of thunder was loud enough to rattle the window panes.

She heard another boom, then a third.

The boom of thunder and a bright glare made her eyes open.

He played that boom, boom, boom classical music all the time.

An uncertain but unimportant amount is annually procured by sand-washing in various tracts of northern India and Burma; and there have been many attempts, including the great boom of 1880, to work mines in the Wynaad district of the Madras Presidency.

After the discovery of their true nature there was a slow development, and at the end of the century a notable boom in the fields.

Children born during the last six years of the Baby Boom grew up in an entirely different time.

The swinging arm or boom is from 4 to 8 in.

With a boom and a crunch, it folded in a cloud of smoke.

The top boom of each girder is an elliptical wrought iron tube 17 ft.

The boom of the garage door opener occupies the space shown in blue.

This is an over-the-head set with a boom microphone.

These states experienced a big boom in home construction and home repair during 2006 to 2007 after the hurricane seasons.

Another boom, and the edges of the door lit up and spit fire as the rocket exploded in Andre's apartment.

When the truth became known regarding the mines a wonderful " boom " began.

The coaster first opened in July 1976 amid great fanfare - with two inversions arranged in a treacherous double corkscrew, the coaster offered high tech thrills at the very beginning of the roller coaster boom.

In the roller coaster boom of the 1980s, many manufacturers revived the bobsled design, but today more high tech rides are taking the place of these milder, classic coasters.

The boom microphone has noise-canceling capabilities and can be adjusted up and down to fit your needs.

The early 1980's saw a drought, but when the Nintendo Entertainment System -- NES to regular gamers -- the real video game boom started.

In Video Games Go Boom we discussed how the world of gaming is destined to divide and diversify.

Street Fighter is perhaps the best known fighting game in the genre, making terms like "hadouken" and "sonic boom" in everyday language.

Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the PC shortly thereafter, igniting the Tetris boom.

It's total destruction when you play Boom Box Bash Party.

The games are Boom Boom Rocket, Feeding Frenzy, Luxor 2, Pac-Man Championship Edition, and Uno.

Then, during the dotcom boom, he had an inside track on several doomed businesses.

Or I could back in the glorious days of the dot.com boom.

Venture capital investments are seen as the primary precursor to economic growth, they have fueled the dot-com boom in the 1990s.

You can now have the outhaul cleat anywhere on the boom.

Scared that her biological clock is going tick tick tick boom.

The market for clearing services for freight derivatives has had something of a boom recently.

So the dollar devaluation is key to understanding the imbalances that led the UK to recession after the Lawson boom.

Great title from the man credited with starting the US running boom with his apparently effortless 1972 Olympic title in Munich.

Sixty years later, a copper mining boom added new impetus to the quest for a harbor.

Like a religious leader found to have committed indiscretions, the followers of the property boom will become depressed by the subject.

A trade deficit during an economic boom helps to reduce demand-pull inflation.

To roll up marketing boom is named Jeanne they're finally back.

Met Steve and his fork lift with extending boom.

The search coil is boom mounted, using the same boom as the fluxgate magnetometer in the core payload.

Sidmouth really began to boom in the 19th century as a seaside holiday Mecca.

During Bond's tour of Q's laboratory, a boom mic is briefly visible at the top of the screen.

The entire channel six news team will be there, except for Phil, the boom mike operator, who's getting fired tomorrow.

Camborne was a prosperous boom town in the nineteenth century, due to the tin mining industry.

In this sense, they too hastily ascribe a purely economic motive to the present cultural studies ' boom ' .

Conversely as you let the boom down for speed you will need to ease the outhaul and cunningham to generate more power.

When configured to carry paratroops, 40 in the Freight Bay and 30 in the Tail Boom.

This 5th century ' economic boom ' formed a prelude to the most remarkable phase of Byzantine history.

These were genuine enough but became the pretext for excessive equity valuations, fueling a general economic boom.

Domestic policy Kulturkampf Germany experienced an economic boom as her economy prospered.

Too late for the blues boom and too bluesy for the prog rockers they didn't fit neatly anywhere.

What - Poliakoff essentially speculates - would have happened had the 1960s boom in television satire arrived a quarter of a century earlier...?