different between boombox vs implement

English

Noun

boombox (plural boomboxes)

1. Alternative spelling of boom box
   • 2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been? (page 271)

     Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bum?b?ks/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bu?m?b?ks/

French

Noun

boombox m (plural boomboxes)

1. boom box

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom box.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bum.b?ks/

Noun

boombox m inan

1. (colloquial) boom box

Declension

Standard declension:

Colloquial, animate declension:

Synonyms

• kombajn, jamnik

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin impl?mentum (“a filling up”), from Latin imple? (“I fill up”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?m?pl?-m?nt, IPA^(key): /??mpl?m?nt/

Noun

implement (plural implements)

1. A tool or instrument for working with.

   They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

     A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:instrument

Translations

Etymology 2

From Scottish English or Scots implement (“fulfill”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?m?pl?-m?nt, IPA^(key): /??mpl?m?nt/

Verb

implement (third-person singular simple present implements, present participle implementing, simple past and past participle implemented)

2. to bring about; to put into practice; to carry out

Usage notes

• Nouns serving as grammatical objects that commonly collocate: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

Derived terms

• implementable
• implementation
• implementer

Translations

Further reading

• implement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• implement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.