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booming 音標拼音: [b'umɪŋ] a. 急速發展的 急速發展的 booming adj 1: very lively and profitable; " flourishing businesses"; " a palmy time for stockbrokers"; " a prosperous new business"; " doing a roaring trade"; " a thriving tourist center"; " did a thriving business in orchids" [ synonym: { booming}, { flourishing}, { palmy}, { prospering}, { prosperous}, { roaring}, { thriving}] 2: used of the voice [ synonym: { booming}, { stentorian}] Hushing \ Hush" ing\, n. ( Mining) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called { booming} and { hydraulic mining}. [ 1913 Webster PJC]
Booming \ Boom" ing\, n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. -- Howitt. [ 1913 Webster]
Booming \ Boom" ing\, a. 1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. [ 1913 Webster] O' er the sea- beat ships the booming waters roar. -- Falcone. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [ Colloq. U. S.] [ 1913 Webster]
Boom \ Boom\ ( b[= oo] m), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Boomed}, p. pr. & vb. n. { Booming}.] [ Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. { Bum}, { Bump}, v. i., { Bomb}, v. i.] 1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. [ 1913 Webster] At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. [ 1913 Webster] Alarm guns booming through the night air. -- W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. [ 1913 Webster] She comes booming down before it. -- Totten. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly. [ 1913 Webster] 101 Moby Thesaurus words for " booming": balmy, birring, blooming, blossoming, bombilation, bombinating, bombination, boom, burring, buzzing, cannonade, cannonading, clear, deafening, droning, ear- piercing, ear- rending, ear- splitting, earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, exuberant, fair, fat, flourishing, flowering, forte, fortissimo, fruiting, full, fulminating, going strong, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, halcyon, hum, humming, in full swing, in good case, lingering, loud, loud- sounding, loudish, low rumbling, palmy, peal, pealing, persistent, piercing, piping, plangent, prospering, prosperous, purring, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho, reechoing, repercussive, resound, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, roar, roaring, robust, roll, rolling, rosy, rumble, rumbling, sleek, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thrifty, thriving, thrumming, thunder, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vigorous, volleying, whirring, whizzing, window- rattling
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