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单词 boom
释义
boom1 nounboom2 verb
boomboom1 /buːm/ ●○○ noun Entry menu
MENU FOR boomboom1 increase in business2 when something is popular3 sound4 boat5 long pole6 on a river/harbour
Word Origin
WORD ORIGINboom1
Origin:
1-3 1400-1500 ➔ BOOM24-6 1500-1600 Dutch ‘tree, long piece of wood’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a log boom
  • A more pressing problem is Mexico's dramatic baby boom.
  • a record-breaking boom in tourism
  • A sonic boom was heard by observers on the shore as the meteorite fell to earth.
  • Canada enjoyed a real economic boom in the postwar years.
  • Motorola is one of the leaders in the global technology boom.
  • the boom in cellular phone ownership
  • The boom of cannon continued for most of the day.
  • The fitness boom started in the 1970s.
  • The impact of the property boom was first felt in the financial markets.
  • The IT market is growing, thanks to the Internet boom.
  • the post-war property boom
  • There was a loud boom. The chemical works was on fire.
  • Witnesses heard the first loud boom at 3:03 p.m.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Extend your arms Keep them well down the boom to get the rig as upright as possible. 3.
  • From beginning to end, each cycle of boom and slump lasts, Kondratiev argued, for about fifty years.
  • In Gwinnett County, Ga., a boom that began more than a decade ago continues with no end in sight.
  • The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.
  • The bias litigation boom is in large measure traceable to key changes in the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
  • The trends in prices and construction track very closely past cycles of booms and busts.
  • There were two big booms, then the cloud started forming.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSa very big increase
noun [countable] a sudden very large increase in the amount or number of something: · There has been an explosion in the number of fast food restaurants.· The country experienced a population explosion.· The book caused an explosion of interest in Renaissance Italy.
noun [singular] a sudden large increase in trade, profits or sales, with the result that a country, company, or industry becomes very successful. Boom is also used about a sudden increase in interest in something, with the result that it becomes very popular: · the German economic boom of the 1960s· the Internet boom· There has been a boom in sales of diet books and videos.
made by an explosion, gun etc
a short sudden loud noise made by a gun, bomb etc: · There was a loud bang as the bomb exploded.· The firework went off with a bang.
a very loud sound from an explosion, which you can hear for several seconds after it begins: · The building exploded into rubble with a loud boom.· The boom of artillery fire echoed in the distance.
a continuous very loud noise that gets louder and continues for a long time: · The light was followed by the deafening roar of explosions.· the roar of the ship’s guns
Longman Language Activatora sudden large increase
a sudden large increase in the amount or number of something -- use this especially about business costs, prices, activities etc: · Coffee and orange juice prices made their biggest leaps on Friday.leap in: · Borrowers have been warned to expect another leap in bank interest rates.· Gold shares gained following a leap in the price of gold.by leaps and bounds (=use this to emphasize how quickly something is increasing): · I can see the Internet business growing by leaps and bounds.
a very sudden and very large increase in population, in an activity, or in the numbers of something: · We live in the century of population explosion, with the world's population doubling at least every 25 years.· These people are full of hope. An economic explosion is underway in their country.explosion of: · The company cannot meet demand, and has seen an explosion of customer complaints.· No-one can say where the amazing explosion of digital services will take us.explosion in: · Officials insist the case is unrelated to the explosion in homicide rates among teenagers.
a sudden large increase in something such as trade, economic success, or a particular area of activity: · The IT market is growing, thanks to the Internet boom.boom in: · the boom in cellular phone ownership· a record-breaking boom in tourismeconomic boom (=a period of economic and financial success): · Canada enjoyed a real economic boom in the postwar years.property/productivity spending etc boom: · Motorola is one of the leaders in the global technology boom. · The impact of the property boom was first felt in the financial markets.baby boom (=a period of time when many more babies are born): · A more pressing problem is Mexico's dramatic baby boom.
a sudden increase in something such as demand, profit, interest etc: surge in: · Last year there was a surge in the company's profits to $122m.· a 31% surge in divorce rates· Stores are expecting a surge in demand as Christmas approaches.· Her books enjoyed a huge surge in popularity in the mid-1980s.surge of: · The unexpected surge of voters to the polls has surprised even opposition parties.
sounds made by guns, bombs etc
a short sudden loud noise made by a gun, bomb etc: · "I heard a bang and then I heard shots," said Saxton, a tourist from Australia.loud bang: · There was a loud bang as the bomb exploded.go off/explode etc with a bang: · The firework went off with a loud bang.
an extremely loud noise that can be heard for several seconds after it begins: · The boom of cannon continued for most of the day.· There was a loud boom. The chemical works was on fire.sonic boom (=the loud noise made when a plane, spacecraft etc passes the speed of sound): · A sonic boom was heard by observers on the shore as the meteorite fell to earth.
an extremely loud noise that gets gradually louder and continues for a fairly long time: · With a great roar, the whole building was engulfed in flames.· We threw ourselves to the ground as the roar of an explosion thundered over us.
to make a very low sound, like the sound of distant thunder, that gets quieter then louder continuously: · In the distance, thunder rumbled across the sky.· The sound of rebel gunfire rumbled in the hills.
WORD SETS
aerial, nounairtime, nounAM, nounantenna, nounatmospherics, nounaudio, adjectiveband, nounBBC, the, beacon, nounbeam, verbBeeb, the, bleep, verbboom, nounboom box, nounBritish Broadcasting Corporation, nounbroadband, nounbroadcast, nounbroadcast, verbcable television, CB, nounCCTV, nounCeefax, nounchannel, nounclosed circuit television, nouncommunications satellite, nouncontrast, noundial, nounDJ, nounexposure, nounflash, verbFM, nounfrequency, nounham, nounHz, interference, nounjam, verbkHz, kilohertz, nounlinkup, nounlive, adjectivelocal radio, nounlong wave, nounloudspeaker, nounLW, mast, nounmedium wave, nounmegahertz, nounMHz, modulate, verbmonitor, nounmono, nounmono, adjectiveNBC, nounnetwork, nounnetwork, verbon-air, adjectiveover, prepositionpresenter, nounprogramming, nounquadraphonic, adjectiveradio, nounradio, verbreceive, verbreceiver, nounreception, nounrepeat, verbrepeat, nounrerun, nounrerun, verbroger, interjectionsatellite, nounsatellite dish, nounsatellite television, nounsaturation, nounscrambler, nounseries, nounset, nounshipping forecast, nounship-to-shore, adjectiveshort wave, nounsignal, nounsignature tune, nounsimulcast, verbSOS, nounsound, nounsound bite, nounsound check, nounstatic, nountelecast, nounTeletext, nountelevise, verbtelevision, nountelevision licence, nountelly, nountime signal, nountrack, verbtransistor, nountransistor radio, nountransmission, nountransmit, verbtransmitter, nountune, verbtuner, nountweeter, nountwo-way, adjectiveUHF, noununscramble, verbveejay, nounvideo, nounvideo, adjectivevideo jockey, nounvolume, nounwaveband, nounwavelength, nounwhite noise, nounwireless, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + boom
· the post-war economic boom
(=a sudden increase in house prices)· People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom.
(=a sudden increase in the amount people spend)· Various factors caused the consumer boom.
(=a sudden increase in building work)· There’s been a recent construction boom in the Gulf.
· the investment boom of the past few years
verbs
· Tax cuts sometimes lead to an economic boom.
(=start it)· The lower interest rates triggered an economic boom.
(=add to it)· The energy crisis is fuelling a boom in alternative energy.
· Since then, China has enjoyed a remarkable boom.
boom + NOUN
· the boom years of the late 1980s
phrases
(=change from doing very well economically to doing very badly)· The Mexican economy went from boom to bust very quickly.
· They sold their house at the height of the boom.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a time when people spend a lot more money on buying things than usual)· the consumer boom of the 1980s in Britain
(=extremely strong and successful)· What can we learn from China’s booming economy?
(=becomes very successful very quickly)· The economy is booming and share prices are at an all-time high.
(=people born between 1946 and 1964)· Healthcare expenses are expected to rise as the baby-boom generation reaches retirement.
(=when the population increases quickly and by a large amount)· What will be the long-term effects of this population explosion?
· Thunder crashed overhead, waking the baby.
(=when an economy or industry is very successful)· In the boom years, things weren’t too bad.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· There were two big booms, then the cloud started forming.· The biggest boom is in the scenic desert areas, which are laced with washes.· Listen for a big boom coming from the band office down there near Palm Drive.
· The potential economic boom has been welcomed by business leaders in Swindon.· Indeed, in almost every speech, he celebrates the economic boom of what he calls the Clinton-Gore administration.· Its appearance coincided with an economic boom and an ideological crisis.· Treatment of blacks altered slightly with the great depression of the thirties and the economic boom of the wartime forties.· The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom, have been happy to go along.· Is an economic boom an unsustainable trend?· The recent Mobilization for Global Justice raises the question: economic boom for whom?· By the eighteenth century, an economic boom had resulted in an active type of pre-capitalism, ready to take off.
· The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums.· And our data do not even cover the effects of the great stock market boom of 1995 and 1996.· The truth is that the great economic boom provided employment - at home and for emigrants abroad-on a quite unprecedented scale.· This was 1869, a quarter century before the great bicycle boom, a time before bicycles were bicycles at all.
· During the long post-war boom, argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism.· On this view, the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations.· However, the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s.· Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom.
· It is one of two new boom trucks delivered that day.· The reason for this new boom would be, wait for it, upgradeability!· People braced for a new oil boom.· On this view, the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations.
· First, the postwar boom in college enrollments raised levels of civic engagement, offsetting the generational trends.· Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.· Towards the end of the postwar boom, an imbalance between accumulation and the labour supply led to increasingly severe labour shortage.· Short Cuts captures the moment when the postwar economic boom began its decline into downward mobility.
· Mysterious white beams stream down into the cold desert from saucer-shaped craft. Sonic booms rumble in the valleys at all hours.· A loud sonic boom was heard by observers on shore.· The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms.· Who could foresee the sonic boom when the needle finally hit the groove on my cheap record changer?
NOUN
· To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom.· In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.· In the early years the baby boom carried almost all women before it.· The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.· Fifty years ago, the United States first met the postwar baby boom without enough pediatricians, schools, jobs or housing.· The answer is a baby boom.· The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation.
· I take a boom box in the loo with me.· As a social service, how about installing our own classical music boom box?· But then, two men toting boom boxes promenade at the same speed as the mobile.
· Too many people in authority have benefited from the construction boom over the past 20 years.· Consider that the Phoenix metropolitan area is in the midst of an apartment construction boom.· Budapest is enjoying a construction boom, and the government reported a sharp fall in unemployment last month.· At the peak of the 1980s construction boom, for example, the figure was nearly eight times that.
· Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.· In peacetime, the business became legitimate and was fueled by a consumer boom.· It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom.· But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.· That is where so much of the consumer boom of the 1980s came from.· Prosperity, too, had been the product of small enterprises and a lengthy consumer boom financed by credit.
· In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force, capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.· The baby boom generation lined up for their Sabin sugar cubes and hardly noticed that the Salk vaccine was disappearing.· The study defined parents aged 30 to 50 as being members of the baby boom generation.· But as the baby boom generation retires, the fund faces the possibility of depletion by 2030.
· Unfortunately, the hoped-for investment boom did not materialize.· Like the oil crisis of the 1970s, the California energy crisis is fueling an investment boom in alternative energy.· A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.· All this means that the investment boom is over.
· These new playthings greased the way for the emerging markets boom of the early 1990s.· And one must add, of course, the parallel stock market booms.· Analysts say that Shearson is paying the price for overmanning during the market boom which ended in 1987.· This transfer of resources has been recycled into higher investment and the stock market boom.· The frenzy of buying added to a stock market boom that began in May 1999.· And our data do not even cover the effects of the great stock market boom of 1995 and 1996.· The surge of profits fueling the stock market boom refuses to slacken.
· By 1974 the North Sea oil boom was gaining momentum rapidly.· Then along came the Gulf's oil boom and Western banks found themselves flooded with investments from oil-rich sheikhs.· People braced for a new oil boom.· Since our last visit to Aberdeen, which had been before the oil boom, the port had been transformed.
· In this case, they would constitute a pool of labour which can be utilised in boom periods and disregarded in recessions.· The boom period ensured that every prairie city had two and sometimes three stations, some of them very short-lived indeed.· A boom period of speculative house building peaked between 1928 and 1936 when construction of 118,000 dwellings annually increased to 293,000.· These are harder to come by now than in the boom period of the late 1980s.· The period 1951-64 was a boom period for house building, both private and public.· Eventually, the economy reaches the peak of the cycle - the so-called boom period.
· In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous genetic material is pruned out.
· The choice of suitable premises in Newport at the height of the property boom was not large.· The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.· This, of course, stemmed from the property boom of the period.· Beyond specific impacts, the property boom graphically illustrated the vulnerability of cities to national economic events beyond their control.· Some have gone to expats, causing a property boom and a total drought of flats for rent.· Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump.· There was a property boom in the seventies.· Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London.
· This port, founded as late as 1 130, very quickly came to enjoy all the characteristics of a boom town.· The boom has created opportunities, and money has trickled down from the coastal boom towns to poorer inland regions.· The oil price hike in 1973 turned Nabru into a boom town.· Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.· London was a boom town and the stock market was soaring.· As a kid it had always struck me that it was like some western boom town.· And really it was a boom town.
· The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.· Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.· During the boom years of the 1980s the Duke of Westminter's company embarked on a building spree, especially in Mayfair.· Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years.· So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year.· The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.· The 1970s were the boom years.· The boom years of the 1980s, however, have seen private-sector profitability soar.
· The boom years brought by Brian Little have gone.· Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.· During the boom years of the 1980s the Duke of Westminter's company embarked on a building spree, especially in Mayfair.· Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years.· The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.· The 1970s were the boom years.· The boom years of the 1980s, however, have seen private-sector profitability soar.· Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s.
VERB
· But has the Fed failed to prevent the imbalances created by the recent boom from getting out of hand?· Only after he committed suicide in February 1988 did the mass media acknowledge his talents and create a Bashlachev boom.
· Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years.· Budapest is enjoying a construction boom, and the government reported a sharp fall in unemployment last month.
· The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went.· In recent years -- not withstanding a recession-induced slowdown in 1992 -- corporate spending on culture has experienced a small boom.· But he also had the good fortune to take over National just as the industry began to experience an unprecedented four-year boom.
· Growth in air travel is fuelling the boom.· Then on Wednesday night he forecast that interest rates would drop - fuelling the City boom.
1increase in business [singular] a quick increase of business activity OPP  slump:  The boom has created job opportunities.boom in a sudden boom in the housing marketconsumer/investment/property etc boom the post-war property boomboom years/times In boom times, airlines do well. the economic boom of the 1950s The economy went from boom to bust (=from increasing to decreasing) very quickly. → boom town2when something is popular [singular] an increase in how popular or successful something is, or in how often it happens:  the disco boom of the 1970sboom in the boom in youth soccer in the U.S. → baby boom3sound [countable] a deep loud sound that you can hear for several seconds after it begins, especially the sound of an explosion or a large gun → sonic boom
► see thesaurus at sound4boat [countable] a long pole on a boat that is attached to the bottom of a sail, and that you move to change the position of the sail5long pole [countable] a)a long pole used as part of a piece of equipment that loads and unloads things b)a long pole that has a camera or microphone on the end6on a river/harbour [countable] something that is stretched across a river or a bay to prevent things floating down or across itCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + booman economic boom· the post-war economic booma property/housing boom (=a sudden increase in house prices)· People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom.a consumer/spending boom (=a sudden increase in the amount people spend)· Various factors caused the consumer boom.a building/construction boom (=a sudden increase in building work)· There’s been a recent construction boom in the Gulf.an investment boom· the investment boom of the past few yearsverbscause/lead to a boom· Tax cuts sometimes lead to an economic boom.trigger/spark a boom (=start it)· The lower interest rates triggered an economic boom.fuel a boom (=add to it)· The energy crisis is fuelling a boom in alternative energy.enjoy a boom· Since then, China has enjoyed a remarkable boom.boom + NOUNthe boom years/times· the boom years of the late 1980sphrasesgo from boom to bust (=change from doing very well economically to doing very badly)· The Mexican economy went from boom to bust very quickly.at the height of the boom· They sold their house at the height of the boom.
boom1 nounboom2 verb
boomboom2 ●○○ verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINboom2
Origin:
1400-1500 From the sound
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
boom
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyboom
he, she, itbooms
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyboomed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave boomed
he, she, ithas boomed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad boomed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill boom
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have boomed
Continuous Form
PresentIam booming
he, she, itis booming
you, we, theyare booming
PastI, he, she, itwas booming
you, we, theywere booming
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been booming
he, she, ithas been booming
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been booming
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be booming
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been booming
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Cellnet has 800,000 subscribers, and business is booming.
  • Tourism boomed here in the late 1990s.
  • We're happy to report that business is booming this year.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.
  • Coastal development and tourism are booming.
  • Every time Peter said a word, his father would boom him.
  • I boomed one drive 265 yards.
  • Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto make a loud noise
to make a loud, deep, hollow sound like the sound of a big gun: · Thunder boomed loudly overhead.· Rock music boomed from speakers above the stage.· Occasional volleys of shellfire boomed out from beyond the walls of the city.
if something roars , especially a machine or a strong wind, it makes a continuous loud noise: · I stood by the waterfall, almost hypnotised by the roaring water.roar through/past etc: · The wind roared through the forest.· Traffic roared along the highway.
if a machine, vehicle, etc thunders , it makes a loud, deep, powerful sound, especially when it is moving fast: thunder past/through/overhead etc: · The train thundered through the station.
if music or someone's voice blares or blares out , it comes from a radio, TV etc very loudly: · It was a horrible disco with lights flashing and music blaring.· A siren blared out somewhere behind us.blare out something: · A radio was blaring out pop music.
to produce a lot of loud noise, especially music: · The neighbors blasted religious music from their windows at all hours of the night.· Pop music blasted out from her radio.
loud
something that is loud makes a lot of noise: · The music's too loud. Can you turn it down?· Three seconds later there was a loud bang and the hall was filled with smoke.· The boy gave a loud cry of pain.
use this about places where there is a lot of noise, or about people and machines that make a lot of noise, especially when this annoys you: · The nightclub was crowded and noisy.· Their lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours.· People started to complain about his noisy motorbike.
a crowd that is rowdy makes too much noise and behaves badly: · They were thrown out of the bar for rowdy behaviour.· People living near the football stadium complain about litter and rowdy fans.· The meeting was a somewhat rowdy affair.
: raucous voice/laugh etc a voice, laugh etc that is loud, rough and uncontrolled: · A howl of raucous laughter came from the kitchen.· He sat and finished his drink, ignoring the raucous voices from the other end of the bar.
: booming voice/laugh etc a voice, laugh etc that is very loud and deep: · The speaker's booming voice easily reached the back of the theatre.· His booming laugh echoed around the room.
a successful company or product
· What are the features that characterized the successful corporations of the past?· He returned to Merseyside after a successful tour with Johnny Gentle.· Our most successful product is based on a very simple idea.· Gradually, word spread, and we built up a very successful business indeed.
a company, organization, or industry that is thriving is very successful, especially because economic conditions are good or because a lot of people want to buy or use their products: · The nearby malls are thriving, and there's no need for another regional shopping centre.· He expanded the shipping trade and left a thriving business to his son. · the thriving fast-food and soft drinks industry
a company or industry that is booming is extremely successful at a particular time, especially because economic conditions are good: · The need for personal protection has led to a booming private security industry here. · Every day, we hear that the IT industry is booming, but where's the real evidence of that?business is booming (=used to say that you are selling a lot of products and making a lot of money): · One company that specializes in fitting old computers with new parts says business is booming.
if a company or product is a success story , it has become extremely successful, especially suddenly: · Tonight, we're going to hear about another business success story from the North East. · Well, the success story might never have happened if the entrepreneur had taken the advice of his bank.
WORD SETS
ablaze, adjectiveacoustic, adjectiveacoustics, nounaglow, adjectivebaa, verbbabble, verbbabble, nounbabel, nounbaby talk, nounbackfire, verbbackground, nounbang, nounbang, verbbang, interjectionbark, verbbark, nounbattle cry, nounbay, verbbeat, verbbeat, nounbellow, verbbellow, nounblare, verbblast, nounbleat, verbbleep, nounbleep, verbblip, nounbong, nounboom, nounboom, verbbowwow, interjectionbrassy, adjectivebray, verbbrazen, adjectivebreathy, adjectivebubble, verbbump, nounchatter, verbchatter, nounclink, verbclink, nouncrack, verbcrack, nouncrackle, verbcrackling, nouncrash, verbcrash, nouncreak, verbcreaky, adjectivecroak, verbcroak, nouncrow, nouncrow, verbcrunch, nouncrunch, verbding-dong, noundiscord, noundiscordant, adjectivedrone, verbdrone, noundrown, verbdrum, verbdrumbeat, noundrumming, noundull, adjectiveecho, verbecho, nounfizz, verbflat, adjectivefootfall, nounfootstep, nounfusillade, noungrinding, adjectivegroan, verbgroan, noungrunt, verbgrunt, nounguffaw, verbgunshot, nounguttural, adjectivehigh, adjectivehigh, adverbhiss, verbindistinct, adjectiveirregular, adjectivelow, verbmarbled, adjectivematching, adjectivemellow, adjectivemelodic, adjectivemelodious, adjectivemetallic, adjectivemoan, verbmoan, nounmodulate, verbmonotone, nounmoo, verbmurmur, verbmurmur, nounmusical, adjectivemusically, adverbmute, verbnasal, adjectivenoise, nounoink, interjectionoof, interjectionpatter, verbpatter, nounpeal, nounpeal, verbpenetrating, adjectivepercussion, nounpsychedelic, adjectivepulse, nounputter, verbquack, verbquack, nounquaver, nounracket, nounrasp, verbrasp, nounraspberry, nounrat-a-tat, nounrattle, nounraucous, adjectivereedy, adjectivereport, nounresonance, nounresonant, adjectiveresonate, verbresonator, nounresound, verbresounding, adjectivereverberate, verbreverberation, nounrich, adjectivering, nounring, verbringing, adjectiveripple, verbripple, nounroar, nounroaring, adjectiveroll, verbrough, adjectiverustle, verbrustle, nounscratch, verbscratch, nounscream, verbscream, nounscrunch, verbsmoky, adjectivesnarl, verbsoft, adjectivesoft-spoken, adjectivesonorous, adjectivesotto voce, adverbsplosh, verbsweet, adjectiveswoosh, verbtick-tock, nountinny, adjectivetonal, adjectivevivid, adjectivevowel, nounwail, verbweak, adjectivewhack, nounwham, interjectionwhine, verbwhinny, verbwhirr, verbwhistle, verbwhistle, nounyelp, nounyowl, verbzoom, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Business was booming, and money wasn’t a problem.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a time when people spend a lot more money on buying things than usual)· the consumer boom of the 1980s in Britain
(=extremely strong and successful)· What can we learn from China’s booming economy?
(=becomes very successful very quickly)· The economy is booming and share prices are at an all-time high.
(=people born between 1946 and 1964)· Healthcare expenses are expected to rise as the baby-boom generation reaches retirement.
(=when the population increases quickly and by a large amount)· What will be the long-term effects of this population explosion?
· Thunder crashed overhead, waking the baby.
(=when an economy or industry is very successful)· In the boom years, things weren’t too bad.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems.· He learned how to boom out facts and figures to the city council members that they were unable to refute.· He boomed out, slipping in all the glottal stops and nasal sobs of an appallingly melodramatic tenor.· Tall man, booming out laughter and orders, watching us, adoring us.· A loud guffaw boomed out from the lounge and he glanced through the doorway, thankful to be out-of the way.
NOUN
· Gloucestershire police say the pornographic video business appears to be booming, so a crackdown on the dealers is to be welcomed.· Or else because business was booming, the money was there, and the experiments might just possibly pay off some day.· When their businesses were booming, they could afford to pose as tough-talking entrepreneurs keen to take on the telephone companies.· Its paging business was booming, and annual operating profits broke the $ 1 billion mark.· People migrated into the villages and towns of the coalfield where business was booming.· Schilling fought it, but since business was booming, he was shouted down.· He realised that when Field played his pianos in City salerooms, business boomed.
· And then when the economy starts booming they start spending more because they have got nice surpluses.· Underwire EconomiesThe dark side: the informal economy booms.· The economy booms like cannon, far out at sea on a lone ship.· As her economy boomed, she needed more black labor.· Ireland, whose economy is booming, is looking at allowing in 200,000 skilled workers over seven years.· The economy is booming and reaching out to some previously neglected economic sectors.· As the economy boomed, champagne boomed with it, becoming the house wine of the upwardly mobile.· Local governments, too, cooperated, glad to have their economy boomed for them.
· As the media went rabid with outrage, a for and against Manson/Family industry began to boom.· On the contrary, the industry is booming, although these days it goes by the name of direct selling.· Next thing she knew, the industry was booming, and sales poured in.
· The range of sports programmes, live and packaged, is extraordinary, while the videotape market is booming.· With thousands of new residents arriving in Las Vegas each month, the housing market is booming.
· A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook.· They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.
· Foreign trade is booming, but not enough to account for a doubling of stock prices.· Pat Buchanan not withstanding, trade is booming more than ever before.
· People passing in the street would hear his voice booming through the big wisteria -hung window that looked down the hill.· Most of all her voice booms, whether she's praising her spicy Southwest eggs or when she sings opera on stage.· His abusive father routine earned him a spontaneous burst of applause, his voice booming to the rafters.
1[intransitive usually in progressive] if business, trade, or a particular area is booming, it is increasing and being very successful:  Business was booming, and money wasn’t a problem. Tourism on the island has boomed.2 (also boom out) [transitive] to say something in a loud deep voice:  ‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ his voice boomed out.3 (also boom out) [intransitive] to make a loud deep sound:  Guns boomed in the distance.—booming adjective:  a booming economy
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