boot

1. (transitive) To kick.Examples: "I booted the ball toward my teammate."; "You nearly booted me in the face!"; "The one certainty is that the redrafting will delay by several months the general election that was supposed to be held at the end of this year. Mr Prayuth has implied that elections cannot now be held until after King Vajiralongkorn's coronation, which itself cannot take place until after his father's elaborate cremation, scheduled for October. All this boots the long-promised polls well into 2018."Synonyms: hoof, kicktransitive

2. (colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.Examples: "The storm is coming fast! Boot it!"; "We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time."CanadaUScolloquialusually

3. (informal) To eject; kick out.Examples: "We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible."; "The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior."informal

4. (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.Examples: "As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel."; "Even flagrant violators of the TOS are not booted."; "In Electroserver, the kick command disconnects a user totally from the server and gives him a message about why he was booted."Synonyms: kickinformal

5. (slang) To vomit.Examples: "Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch."slang

6. (MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.Examples: "C4 run man through the alley Get a man down with the swammy Get a man down with the whammy Boot couple niggas on the road No face no case with the bally (booting)"Multicultural-London-Englishslang

1. (archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.Examples: "Thou art boot for many a bruise / And healest many a wound."; "next her Son, our soul's best boot"archaiccountabledialectaluncountable

2. (uncountable) Profit, plunder.uncountable

3. (countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.Examples: "I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one."; "If mortgaged property is transferred, the amount of the mortgage is part of the boot. If both parties to the transaction transfer mortgages to each other, the party giving up the larger debt treats the excess as taxable boot."; "If the target retains the boot and uses it for, say, paying its debt, there is taxation on the boot."countableuncountable

4. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.Examples: "Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot."countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.countableobsoleteuncountable

1. (transitive or intransitive, impersonal) To be beneficial, to help.Examples: "It boots thee not to be compaſsionate, / After our ſentence, plaining comes too late."; "It bootes me not to threat, I must ſpeake faire, / The legate of the Pope will be obeyd: […]"; "1678 Richard Hooker, “A Sermon found in the study of Bishop Andrews” in Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln, London: Richard Marriot, p. 262, What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?"archaicimpersonalintransitivetransitive

2. (intransitive, impersonal) To matter; to be relevant.Examples: "I will go and offer myſelf to this divorce—it boots not what becomes of me."; "[W]hat subdued / To change like this, a mind so far imbued / With scorn of man, it little boots to know; [...]"; "What boots whether it be Westminster or a little country spire which covers your ashes, or if, a few days sooner or later, the world forgets you?"archaicimpersonalintransitive

3. (transitive, rare) To enrich.Examples: "And I will boot thee with what guift beſide / Thy modeſtie can begge."archaicraretransitive

1. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.Examples: "It took three boots, but I finally got the application installed."archaic

1. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.Examples: "When arriving at the office, the first thing I do is boot my machine."Synonyms: bootstrap, boot up, startAntonyms: shut down, stop, turn offarchaic