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 Definitions for Booming: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Hushing \Hush"ing\, n. (Mining)
The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins,
by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; --
also called booming and hydraulic mining.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Booming \Boom"ing\, n.
The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent
rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep,
hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. --Howitt.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Booming \Boom"ing\, a.
1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound;
making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
[1913 Webster]
O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar.
--Falcone.
[1913 Webster]
2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming
prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. &
vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to
hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W.
bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow
sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb,
v. i.]
1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the
bittern, and some insects.
[1913 Webster]
At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone. --Tennyson.
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2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
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Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W.
Irving.
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3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press
of sail, before a free wind.
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She comes booming down before it. --Totten.
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4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular
favor; to go on rushingly.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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booming
adj 1: very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a
palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new
business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving
tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
[syn: flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous,
roaring, thriving]
2: used of the voice [syn: stentorian]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "booming":
balmy, birring, blooming, blossoming, bombilation, bombinating,
bombination, boom, burring, buzzing, cannonade, cannonading, clear,
deafening, droning, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting,
earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, exuberant, fair, fat,
flourishing, flowering, forte, fortissimo, fruiting, full,
fulminating, going strong, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling,
halcyon, hum, humming, in full swing, in good case, lingering,
loud, loud-sounding, loudish, low rumbling, palmy, peal, pealing,
persistent, piercing, piping, plangent, prospering, prosperous,
purring, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho,
reechoing, repercussive, resound, resounding, reverberant,
reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, roar,
roaring, robust, roll, rolling, rosy, rumble, rumbling, sleek,
sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious,
thrifty, thriving, thrumming, thunder, thundering, thunderlike,
thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vigorous,
volleying, whirring, whizzing, window-rattling
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