Booming

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hushing \Hush"ing\, n. (Mining)
     The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins,
     by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; --
     also called {booming} and {hydraulic mining}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Booming \Boom"ing\, n.
     The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent
     rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep,
     hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. --Howitt.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Booming \Boom"ing\, a.
     1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound;
        making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
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              O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar.
                                                    --Falcone.
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     2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming
        prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boomed}, p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Booming}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to
     hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W.
     bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow
     sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. {Bum}, {Bump}, v. i., {Bomb},
     v. i.]
     1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the
        bittern, and some insects.
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              At eve the beetle boometh
              Athwart the thicket lone.             --Tennyson.
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     2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
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              Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W.
                                                    Irving.
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     3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press
        of sail, before a free wind.
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              She comes booming down before it.     --Totten.
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     4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular
        favor; to go on rushingly.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  booming
       adj 1: very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a
              palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new
              business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving
              tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
              [syn: {flourishing}, {palmy}, {prospering}, {prosperous},
               {roaring}, {thriving}]
       2: used of the voice [syn: {stentorian}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "booming":
     balmy, birring, blooming, blossoming, bombilation, bombinating,
     bombination, boom, burring, buzzing, cannonade, cannonading, clear,
     deafening, droning, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting,
     earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, exuberant, fair, fat,
     flourishing, flowering, forte, fortissimo, fruiting, full,
     fulminating, going strong, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling,
     halcyon, hum, humming, in full swing, in good case, lingering,
     loud, loud-sounding, loudish, low rumbling, palmy, peal, pealing,
     persistent, piercing, piping, plangent, prospering, prosperous,
     purring, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho,
     reechoing, repercussive, resound, resounding, reverberant,
     reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, roar,
     roaring, robust, roll, rolling, rosy, rumble, rumbling, sleek,
     sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious,
     thrifty, thriving, thrumming, thunder, thundering, thunderlike,
     thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vigorous,
     volleying, whirring, whizzing, window-rattling