Booming
[buːmɪŋ] or ['bʊmɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) used of the voice .
(adj.) 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' .
Editor: Margie--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boom
(a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
(a.) Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.
(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.
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Examples
- You, she said, and laughed that booming laugh. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The water was still booming in the night, the moon was fair, the hills beyond were elusive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She commenced to laugh, dropping the imitation of the almost effeminate bullfighter's voice and booming again now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The cheering, till now subdued, was loud and hearty, and some pieces of cannon on the shore gave token, by their loud booming, that the great task of the day was done. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And me, the woman of Pablo said in her booming voice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The signal for advance was given by a booming of cannon from Fort Wood and other points on the line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then another, booming through the rushing noise the water made. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I told the scene realized; the crowd, the masquesthe music, the lamps, the splendours, the guns booming afar, the bells sounding on high. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Early the following morning the four within the little cabin by the beach were awakened by the booming of a cannon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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