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"text": "Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks.",
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"text": "I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.",
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"sense": "to make a loud, resonant sound",
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"sense": "to make a loud, resonant sound",
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"sense": "to make a loud, resonant sound",
"word": "nổ bùm"
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"To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder."
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"(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder."
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"Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation."
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"text": "Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.",
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"(transitive) To make something boom."
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"To subject to a sonic boom."
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"(aviation) To subject to a sonic boom."
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"ref": "1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge",
"text": "If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.",
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"ref": "1841, Benjamin Totten, Naval Text-book and Dictionary […]",
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"ref": "2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2022-12-06",
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"ref": "2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 2022-12-13",
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"word": "lower the boom"
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[
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"barrier"
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[
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"obstruct"
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[
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"containment"
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[
"oil spill",
"oil spill"
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[
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"log"
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[
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"_dis1": "3 5 4 4 5 72 2 3 3",
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"common-gender"
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"word": "läns"
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{
"_dis1": "3 5 4 4 5 72 2 3 3",
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"sense": "floating barrier",
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"common-gender"
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"word": "länsa"
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]
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[
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"ref": "1948, Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes",
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"feminine"
],
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"_dis1": "2 40 37 2 7 4 2 3 3",
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"sense": "support for microphone or camera",
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"_dis1": "2 40 37 2 7 4 2 3 3",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"code": "cmn",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
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{
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːm",
"Rhymes:English/uːm/1 syllable",
"en:Sounds"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "boom town"
}
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_text": "Perhaps a figurative development of Etymology 1, above.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "booms",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "booming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "boomed",
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"participle",
"past"
]
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"form": "boomed",
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"past"
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The population boomed in recent years.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Business was booming.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, quoting Ron DeSantis, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "“If you look at South Florida right now, this place is booming,” Mr. DeSantis said recently. “Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City isn’t booming.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 145",
"text": "Over this period, as plants boomed, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dropped by 90 per cent, triggering a period of global cooling.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To flourish, grow, or progress."
],
"links": [
[
"flourish",
"flourish"
],
[
"grow",
"grow"
],
[
"progress",
"progress"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress."
],
"senseid": [
"en:flourish"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "flourish"
},
{
"word": "prosper"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to boom railroad or mining shares",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to advance rapidly in price."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/buːm/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bum/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːm"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-boom.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a4/En-au-boom.ogg/En-au-boom.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/En-au-boom.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "boo͞m"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "procǎftjavam",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "процъфтявам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fánróng",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "繁荣"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "bloeien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "floreren"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "haŭsi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "kukoistaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "prospérer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "blühen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "florieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "boomen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "túlszaporodás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "gradáció"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "prosperować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "florescer"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"word": "prosperar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "procvetátʹ",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "процвета́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "procvitáty",
"sense": "to be prosperous",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "процвіта́ти"
}
],
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"boom"
],
"word": "boom"
}
{
"called_from": "translations/324",
"msg": "possible sense number in translation item: Catalan: (2) __IGNORE__",
"path": [
"boom"
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"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "boom",
"trace": ""
}
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