different between deliver vs boom

English

Alternative forms

• delivre (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin d? + l?ber? (“to set free”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l?v?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??l?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: de?liv?er

Verb

deliver (third-person singular simple present delivers, present participle delivering, simple past and past participle delivered)

1. To set free from restraint or danger.

   Synonyms: free, liberate, release

2. (process) To do with birth.
   1. To assist in the birth of.

   2. (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

      • Sche was delivered sauf and sone

   3. To give birth to.

3. To free from or disburden of anything.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman

     Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

4. To bring or transport something to its destination.
5. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
6. (intransitive, informal) To produce what was expected or required.
   • 2004, Detroit News, Detroit Pistons: Champions at Work (page 86)

     "You know, he plays great sometimes when he doesn't score," Brown said. "Tonight, with Rip (Richard Hamilton) struggling, we needed somebody to step up, and he really did. He really delivered."
7. To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

8. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

   • shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
9. To discover; to show.
10. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

11. (medicine) To administer a drug.

Synonyms

• (to set free): free, loose, rid, outbring
• (to express): utter, outbring
• (produce what was required): come through, come up with the goods

Derived terms

• delivery
• deliverable
• deliver the goods

Translations

Anagrams

• delivre, livered, relived, reviled

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: boo?m
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /bu?m/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /bum/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”).

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

1. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
2. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
3. Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
4. (transitive) To make something boom.

5. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
   • 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge

     If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.

6. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
   • 1841, Benjamin Totten, Naval Text-book and Dictionary […]

     She comes booming down before it.

Derived terms

• boom box
• boom-boom
• sonic boom

Translations

Noun

boom (plural booms)

1. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

2. A rapid expansion or increase.

3. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
   • 1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception

     Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.

Translations

Interjection

boom

1. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.

2. Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
   • 1993, Vibe (volume 1, number 2)

     So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!

   • 2013, Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling, Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development

     Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.

Derived terms

• sis boom bah

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.

Noun

boom (plural booms)

2. (nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
3. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
4. (by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.
5. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
6. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
7. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
8. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
9. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
10. A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.

Derived terms

• boomhouse
• boomstick

Related terms

• (nautical): buoy, cathead
• crane

Translations

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

1. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.

2. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

Etymology 3

Perhaps a figurative development of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

boom (plural booms)

1. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.

Antonyms

• (period of prosperity): recession

Descendants

• ? German: Boom
• Indonesian: bum
• ? Japanese: ??? (b?mu)
• ? Polish: boom

Translations

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

1. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.

   Synonyms: flourish, prosper
2. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.

Derived terms

• boom town

Translations

Anagrams

• MOBO, mobo, moob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boom, from Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch b?m, boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??m/

Noun

boom (plural bome, diminutive boompie)

1. tree

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?m/
• Hyphenation: boom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

boom m (plural bomen, diminutive boompje n)

1. tree
2. any solid, pole-shaped, usually wooden object
   1. beam
   2. mast

      Synonym: mast

   3. boom

      Synonym: giek

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boom
• ? English: boom
• ? Indonesian: bom (“tree, pole”), bum
• ? Sranan Tongo: bon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?m/
• Hyphenation: boom

Noun

boom m (plural booms, diminutive boompje n)

1. boom, as in a market explosion

Derived terms

• babyboom
• boomer

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

See also

• boom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boom in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Alternative forms

• boum

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bum/

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

1. boom (dramatically fast increase)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom, from Dutch boom - see above.

Noun

boom m (invariable)

1. A boom (sound)
2. A boom, rapid expansion
3. A boom (crane)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Noun

bôom m

1. tree
2. beam, pole
3. boom barrier

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: boom
• Limburgish: boum

Further reading

• “boom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “boom (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Polish

Etymology

From English boom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bum/

Noun

boom m inan

1. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)
2. boom (rapid expansion or increase)

Declension

Further reading

• boom in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• boom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

1. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

1. boom (period of prosperity or high market activity)

See also

• bum