Booting vs. Bootstrap — What's the Difference?

In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into memory before it can be executed.

A loop of leather, cloth, or synthetic material that is sewn at the side or the top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.

A durable covering for the foot and part or much of the leg, usually made of leather, fabric, plastic, or rubber.

An instance of starting of a computer; a boot.

A protective covering, especially a sheath to enclose the base of a floor-mounted gear shift lever in a car or truck.

(Statistics) A method of estimating a population's characteristics (such as its mean) by repeatedly subsampling from a given initial sample, thereby avoiding the use of theoretical probability distributions.

Chiefly British An automobile trunk.

To promote and develop by use of one's own initiative and work without reliance on outside help

A kick.

(Statistics) To gather information about a population from a single sample, using repeated samples drawn with replacement.

(Slang) An unceremonious dismissal, as from a job. Used with the.

(Computers) To boot (a computer).

(Slang) A swift, pleasurable feeling; a thrill.

Undertaken or accomplished with minimal outside help.

A Denver boot.

Being or relating to a process that is self-initiating or self-sustaining.

A marine or navy recruit in basic training.

A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.

(Computers) The process of starting or restarting a computer.

A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.

Boots An instrument of torture, used to crush the foot and leg.

(computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.

Chiefly Southern & Midland US See lagniappe.

(computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

(Archaic) Advantage; avail.

(statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.

To put boots on.

To help (oneself) without the aid of others.

To kick

(computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.

(Slang) To discharge unceremoniously.

(computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

(Computers) To start (a computer) by loading an operating system from a disk.

(statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.

To disable (a vehicle) by attaching a Denver boot.

To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.

(Baseball) To misplay (a ground ball).

A strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on

To be of help or advantage; avail.

Help oneself, often through improvised means

Present participle of boot

A kicking, as with a booted foot.

(computing) The act by which a computer is booted.

(obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

Homicide by gunfire.

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

A kicking, as with a booted foot.