boot

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
2. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
3. A blow with the foot; a kick.
4. A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
5. Oppression, an oppressor.
6. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
7. A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
8. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
9. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
10. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
11. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
12. (informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
13. (slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
14. (slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
15. (slang) A black person.
16. A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
17. A bobbled ball.
18. The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
19. (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
20. (slang) A tyre.
21. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

Verb

1. To kick.
2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
3. (colloquial) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
4. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
5. (informal) To eject; kick out.
6. (informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
7. (slang) To vomit.
8. (slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

Verb

1. To be beneficial, to help.
2. To matter; to be relevant.
3. To enrich.

Verb

To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/buːt/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.