boom
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a deep prolonged loud noise
Types & categories
- noise hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
make a resonant sound, like artillery
His deep voice boomed through the hall
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a state of economic prosperity
Types & categories
- prosperity hypernym
Related & opposite
- flourish derivation
Sense 4 verb
hit hard
He smashed a 3-run homer
Types & categories
- hit hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
Types & categories
- happening hypernym
Sense 6 verb
be the case that thunder is being heard
Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed
Related & opposite
Sense 7 noun
a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
Types & categories
- pole hypernym
Sense 8 verb
make a deep hollow sound
Her voice booms out the words of the song
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Related & opposite
- thunder derivation
Sense 9 noun
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
Types & categories
- spar hypernym
Parts & wholes
- sailing vessel part holonym
Sense 10 verb
grow vigorously
The deer population in this town is thriving
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- boom derivation
- expandable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunder |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | roar |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunder |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunder |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | boom out |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | din |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunderous |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | din |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunder |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | flourish |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | prosperity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | blast |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | smash |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | smasher |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | hit |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunder |
| 6 | entails | Related & opposite | storm |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | pole |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | thunder |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 9 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | sailing vessel |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | spar |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | boom |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | expandable |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | grow |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | revive |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | luxuriate |