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单词 booting
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boot

1 of 5

noun (1)

ˈbüt How to pronounce boot (audio)
1
archaic : deliverance
2
: something to equalize a trade
3
obsolete : avail

boot

2 of 5

verb (1)

booted; booting; boots
archaic
: avail, profit

boot

3 of 5

noun (2)

plural boots
1
: a fitted covering (as of leather or rubber) for the foot that usually reaches above the ankle
2
: an instrument of torture used to crush the leg and foot
3
: something that resembles or is likened to a boot
especially : an enclosing or protective casing or sheath (as for a rifle or over an electrical or mechanical connection)
4
: a navy or marine corps recruit undergoing basic training
5
British : an automobile trunk
6
a
: a kick with the foot
b
: summary dismissal
used with the
gave him the boot
c
: momentary pleasure or enjoyment : bang
got a big boot out of the joke
7
: a sheath enclosing the inflorescence
8
: denver boot
9
: the act of booting or rebooting a computer or the process by which a computer is booted see boot entry 4 sense 5b
A cold boot is starting up a computer whose power has been turned off. A warm boot involves restarting the system while it is running … J. D. Biersdorfer
often used before another noun
a boot disk

boot

4 of 5

verb (2)

booted; booting; boots

transitive verb

1
: to put boots on
2
a
: kick
b
: to eject or discharge summarily
often used with out
was booted out of office
3
: to make an error on (a grounder in baseball)
broadly : botch
4
: to ride (a horse) in a race
booted home three winners
5
a
: to load (a program) into a computer from a disk
b
: to start or ready for use especially by booting a program
boot a computer
often used with up

intransitive verb

1
: to become loaded into a computer's memory from a disk
the program boots automatically
2
: to become ready for use especially by booting a program
the computer boots quickly
often used with up
bootable
ˈbü-tə-bəl How to pronounce boot (audio)
adjective

boot

5 of 5

noun (3)

archaic
: booty, plunder
Phrases
to boot
: besides

Synonyms

Noun (2)

  • bang
  • charge
  • exhilaration
  • frisson
  • jollies
  • kick
  • rush
  • thrill
  • titillation
  • wallop

Verb (2)

  • blow
  • bobble
  • boggle
  • bollix (up)
  • botch
  • bugger (up)
  • bumble
  • bungle
  • butcher
  • dub
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foozle
  • foul up
  • fumble
  • goof (up)
  • louse up
  • mangle
  • mess (up)
  • muck up
  • muff
  • murder
  • screw up
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Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Middle English bot, bote "advantage, good, relief, deliverance, redemption, amends, cure," Old English bōt "a making good, repair, relief, deliverance, remedy, improvement, atonement, penance, compensation," going back to Germanic *botō "improvement" — more at better entry 1

Note: Though its Old and Middle English predecessors were common nouns with numerous senses, boot now occurs rarely outside of the idiom to boot. This phrase is attested in the sense "to the advantage (of someone)" in Middle English ("to youre bote") and hence was generalized to "as an extra thing, into the bargain" and then "in addition, moreover."

Verb (1)

Middle English boten "to cure, relieve, add to equalize the value of things exchanged, be of use, avail," probably in part derivative of bot, bote "advantage, good, relief," in part going back to Old English botian "to recover from ill health, keep in repair," derivative of bōt "a making good, repair, relief" — more at boot entry 1

Noun (2)

(senses 1-8) Middle English bote, bot, boot, borrowed from Anglo-French bote (also continental Old French bote, botte), of uncertain origin; (sense 9) noun derivative of boot entry 4, sense 5

Note: The French word is traced to a putative Germanic base *butt- "blunt" in Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, along with a diverse group of phonetically similar words, but both the semantic and phonetic assumptions are questionable.

Verb (2)

(senses 1-4) Middle English boten "to put boots on," derivative of bote, bot boot entry 3; (sense 5) short for bootstrap in sense "to perform a bootstrap operation," derivative of bootstrap entry 2

Noun (3)

shortened from booty entry 1, perhaps by association with boot entry 1

First Known Use

Noun (1)

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb (1)

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb (2)

15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Noun (3)

1598, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

boot 1 of 2

noun

ˈbüt How to pronounce boot (audio)
: a covering usually of leather or rubber for the foot and part of the leg

boot

2 of 2

verb

booted; booting
: kick entry 1 sense 1

Legal Definition

boot

noun

: additional money or property received to make up the difference in an exchange of business or investment property that is of like kind but unequal in value

Note: Under Internal Revenue Code section 1031, no tax liability results from an exchange solely of like-kind property used in a business or trade or held for investment. If the exchange includes boot, however, under section 1245 the boot will be treated as ordinary income.

History and Etymology for boot

obsolete or dialect boot compensation, from Old English bōt advantage, compensation

booting

verb

present participle of boot
as in fumbling
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way he booted the answer of what should have been an easy question

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • fumbling
  • blowing
  • murdering
  • muffing
  • dubbing
  • botching
  • ruining
  • destroying
  • mangling
  • bungling
  • butchering
  • bobbling
  • flubbing
  • fluffing
  • spoiling
  • mucking up
  • screwing up
  • fouling up
  • wrecking
  • damaging
  • marring
  • bumbling
  • injuring
  • lousing up
  • boggling
  • impairing
  • mutilating
  • foozling
  • blundering
  • buggering (up)
  • bollixing (up)
  • hurting
  • muddling
  • goofing (up)
  • harming
  • flawing
  • blighting
  • blemishing
  • messing (up)
  • mismanaging
  • gumming (up)
  • mishandling
  • piffling
  • vitiating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • improving
  • reforming
  • helping
  • remedying
  • rectifying
  • enhancing
  • repairing
  • ameliorating
  • refining
  • fixing
  • patching
  • meliorating
  • doctoring
  • revamping
  • bettering
  • renovating
  • reconditioning
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