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BOOMING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant
Synonyms:
booming; stentorian
Classified under:
Similar:
full ((of sound) having marked deepness and body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very lively and profitable
Example:
did a thriving business in orchids
Synonyms:
booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving
Classified under:
Similar:
successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb boom
Context examples:
Such dips occur at wavelengths between 65 megahertz (MHz) and 95 MHz, overlapping with some of the most widely used frequencies on the FM radio dial, as well as booming radio waves emanating naturally from the Milky Way galaxy.
(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)
They made Sixty Mile, which is a fifty-mile run, on the first day; and the second day saw them booming up the Yukon well on their way to Pelly.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: Pieces of eight!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Now and then I encountered a check, and once I had to shin up a creeper for eight or ten feet, but I made excellent progress, and the booming of Challenger's voice seemed to be a great distance beneath me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alleyne was still seated on the rock, his griefs and his joys drifting swiftly over his mind like the shadow of clouds upon a sunlit meadow, when of a sudden he became conscious of a low, deep sound which came booming up to him through the fog.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then came another rush of sea-fog, greater than any hitherto—a mass of dank mist, which seemed to close on all things like a grey pall, and left available to men only the organ of hearing, for the roar of the tempest, and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
