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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
boot
n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car
3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush
from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang,
boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg
5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the
foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron
heel]
6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron
and slowly crushed
7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball
a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn:
kick, boot, kicking]
v 1: kick; give a boot to
2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial
processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot,
bring up]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Boot \Boot\, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of
uncertain origin.]
1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg,
ordinarily made of leather.
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2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to
extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
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So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they
call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots
close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and
the leg. --Bp. Burnet.
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3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode;
also, a low outside place before and behind the body of
the coach. [Obs.]
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4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned
stagecoach.
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5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the
driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
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6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe
where it passes through a roof.
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Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to
pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] --Swift.
Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of
boots.
Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for
drawing and shaping the body of a boot.
Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.
Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which
is the first signal for mounted drill.
Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Booting.]
1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed
by it; as, what boots it?
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What booteth it to others that we wish them well,
and do nothing for them? --Hooker.
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What subdued
To change like this a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know. --Byron.
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What boots to us your victories? --Southey.
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2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]
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And I will boot thee with what gift beside
Thy modesty can beg. --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Boot \Boot\ (b[=oo]t), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends,
cure, AS. b[=o]t; akin to Icel. b[=o]t, Sw. bot, Dan. bod,
Goth. b[=o]ta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or
better, from the root of E. better, adj. [root]255.]
1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings
relief.
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He gaf the sike man his boote. --Chaucer.
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Thou art boot for many a bruise
And healest many a wound. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Next her Son, our soul's best boot. --Wordsworth.
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2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make
up for the deficiency of value in one of the things
exchanged.
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I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
--Shak.
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3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]
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Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. --Shak.
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To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a
compensation for the difference of value between things
bartered.
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Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. --Shak.
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A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes
to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath
but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to
boot. --Jer. Taylor.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Boot \Boot\, n.
Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] --Shak.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Booting.]
1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.
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Coated and booted for it. --B. Jonson.
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2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Boot \Boot\, v. i.
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
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8. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
boot
v.,n.
[techspeak; from ?by one's bootstraps?] To load and initialize the
operating system on a machine. This usage is no longer jargon (having
passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are
still jargon.
The derivative reboot implies that the machine hasn't been down for long,
or that the boot is a bounce (sense 4) intended to clear some state of
wedgitude. This is sometimes used of human thought processes, as in the
following exchange: ?You've lost me.? ?OK, reboot. Here's the theory....?
This term is also found in the variants cold boot (from power-off
condition) and warm boot (with the CPU and all devices already powered up,
as after a hardware reset or software crash).
Another variant: soft boot, reinitialization of only part of a system,
under control of other software still running: ?If you're running the
mess-dos emulator, control-alt-insert will cause a soft-boot of the
emulator, while leaving the rest of the system running.?
Opposed to this there is hard boot, which connotes hostility towards or
frustration with the machine being booted: ?I'll have to hard-boot this
losing Sun.? ?I recommend booting it hard.? One often hard-boots by
performing a power cycle.
Historical note: this term derives from bootstrap loader, a short program
that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in from the front
panel switches. This program was always very short (great efforts were
expended on making it short in order to minimize the labor and chance of
error involved in toggling it in), but was just smart enough to read in a
slightly more complex program (usually from a card or paper tape reader),
to which it handed control; this program in turn was smart enough to read
the application or operating system from a magnetic tape drive or disk
drive. Thus, in successive steps, the computer ?pulled itself up by its
bootstraps? to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstrap is usually
found in ROM or EPROM, and reads the first stage in from a fixed location
on the disk, called the ?boot block?. When this program gains control, it
is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it.
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9. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
bootstrap
boot
booting
To load and initialise the
operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to
"boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by
one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von
Munchhausen. The bootstrap loader is the program that runs
on the computer before any (normal) program can run. Derived
terms include reboot, cold boot, warm boot, soft boot
and hard boot.
The term also applies to the use of a compiler to compile
itself. The usual process is to write an interpreter for a
language, L, in some other existing language. The compiler is
then written in L and the interpreter is used to run it. This
produces an executable for compiling programs in L from the
source of the compiler in L. This technique is often used to
verify the correctness of a compiler. It was first used in
the LISP community.
See also My Favourite Toy Language.
[Jargon File]
(2005-04-12)
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Thesaurus Results for Boot:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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