boot
Meanings
noun
- A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football (historically in the form of boots, now shorter, but still called the same).
- A blow with the foot; a kick.
- A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
- Oppression, an oppressor.
- A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
- A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
- A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
- A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
- The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
verb
- To kick.
- To put boots on, especially for riding.
- To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
- To eject; kick out.
- To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
- To vomit.
- To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
noun
- Remedy, amends.
- Profit, plunder.
- That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
- Profit; gain; advantage; use.
- Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
- A medicinal cure or remedy.
verb
- To be beneficial, to help.
- To matter; to be relevant.
- To enrich.
noun
- The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
verb
- To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
noun
- A bootleg recording.
name
- A surname.
- A small village in Eskdale parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY1701).
noun
- Initialism of Build–own–operate–transfer.
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Etymology
From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.
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