different between booting vs bootstrap

English

Verb

booting

1. present participle of boot

Noun

booting (plural bootings)

1. A kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. (computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
   • 1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC (page 101)

     […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.

3. (obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir. J. Harrington to this entry?)

4. (MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.

   Coordinate term: chinging

Anagrams

• tobogin

English

Etymology

From boot +? strap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu?t?st?æp/

Noun

bootstrap (plural bootstraps)

1. A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
2. A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.

3. (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
4. (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
5. (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.

Derived terms

• bootstrap aggregating
• bootstrap model
• bootstrap principle
• bootstrap theory
• pull oneself up by one's bootstraps

Related terms

• booting
• cold boot

Translations

See also

• Bootstrapping (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

bootstrap (third-person singular simple present bootstraps, present participle bootstrapping, simple past and past participle bootstrapped)

1. To help (oneself) without the aid of others.

   Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college.

2. (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
3. (computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

   Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.[1]

4. (statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.
5. To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.

Related terms

• reboot

Translations