Boom vs. Boor — What's the Difference?

A loud, deep, resonant sound

A rough and bad-mannered person

A period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth

A crude person with rude or clumsy manners

A pivoted spar to which the foot of a vessel's sail is attached, allowing the angle of the sail to be changed.

A peasant.

A movable arm over a television or film set, carrying a microphone or camera

A peasant.

A floating beam used to contain oil spills or to form a barrier across the mouth of a harbour or river.

A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.

Make a loud, deep, resonant sound

A yokel, country bumpkin.

Experience a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth

An uncultured person.

To make a deep, resonant sound.

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

To grow, develop, or progress rapidly; flourish

A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.

To utter or give forth with a deep, resonant sound

A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

To cause to grow or flourish; boost.

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

To move or position using a crane

A deep resonant sound, as of an explosion.

A time of economic prosperity.

A sudden increase, as in popularity.

(Nautical) A spar extending usually from a mast to hold the foot, clew, or tack of a sail.

A long pole extending upward at an angle from the mast of a derrick to support or guide objects being lifted or suspended.

A barrier composed of a chain of floating logs, typically used to block the passage of boats or to arrest the downstream motion of logs in a log drive.

A floating barrier serving to catch debris or to contain an oil spill.

A long movable arm used to maneuver and support a microphone.

A spar that connects the tail surfaces and the main structure of an airplane.

A long hollow tube attached to a tanker aircraft, through which fuel flows to another aircraft being refueled in flight.

To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.

Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.

(transitive) To make something boom.

(aviation) To subject to a sonic boom.

To publicly praise.

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

(computer chess) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.

To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.

(usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

(intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.

To cause to advance rapidly in price.

A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.

A rapid expansion or increase.

(aviation) sonic boom

One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.

(computer chess) An instance of booming.

(nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.

A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.

(by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.

A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.

(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.

A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.

A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.

The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.

A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.

A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.

Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.

Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.

The sound of a bass drum beating.

The sound of a cannon firing.

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.

A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.

A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; - applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.

To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.

A deep prolonged loud noise

A state of economic prosperity

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money);

A pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set

Any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring

Make a resonant sound, like artillery;

Hit hard;

Be the case that thunder is being heard;

Make a deep hollow sound;

Grow stronger;