Boom
(n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail |
Boom
(n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended. |
Boom
(n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. |
Boom
(n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage. |
Boom
(n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. |
Boom
(v. t.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole |
Boom
(v. i.) To cry with a hollow note |
Boom
(v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. |
Boom
(v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. |
Boom
(v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor |
Boom
(n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon |
Boom
(n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement |
Boom
(v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price |
Fore part
(n.) Alt. of Forepart |
Front
(n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes |
Front
(n.) The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence |
Front
(n.) The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward |
Front
(n.) A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing |
Front
(n.) The most conspicuous part. |
Front
(n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. |
Front
(n.) The beginning. |
Front
(a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part |
Front
(v. t.) To oppose face to face |
Front
(v. t.) To appear before |
Front
(v. t.) To face toward |
Front
(v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. |
Front
(v. t.) To adorn in front |
Front
(v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction |
Gib boom
() See Jib boom. |
Part
(n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided |
Part
(n.) An equal constituent portion |
Part
(n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole |
Part
(n.) A constituent of character or capacity |
Part
(n.) Quarter |
Part
(n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity |
Part
(n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment |
Part
(n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy |
Part
(n.) A particular character in a drama or a play |
Part
(n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony |
Part
(n.) To divide |
Part
(n.) To divide into shares |
Part
(n.) To separate or disunite |
Part
(n.) Hence: To hold apart |
Part
(n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion |
Part
(n.) To leave |
Part
(v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces |
Part
(v. i.) To go away |
Part
(v. i.) To perform an act of parting |
Part
(v. i.) To have a part or share |
Part
(adv.) Partly |
crawl front crawl
Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
| contribution part share | the part played by a person in bringing about a result, I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project, they all did their share of the work |
front-porch campaigning
front-porch campaign | a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel, William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in , her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign |
| part-singing | singing with three or more voice parts |
auto part
car part | a component of an automobile, his business is auto parts |
| boom | 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 |
| boom microphone boom | a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set |
chanfron
chamfron
testiere
frontstall
front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
fly
fly front | an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth |
| front | the side that is seen or that goes first |
| front bench | any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers |
front door
front entrance | exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building |
| front porch | a porch for the front door |
| front projector | a projector for digital input |
| front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
ghetto blaster
boom box | a portable stereo |
living room
livingoom
sitting room
front room
parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
part
portion | something less than the whole of a human artifact, the rear part of the house, glue the two parts together |
spare part
spare | an extra component of a machine or other apparatus |
stern
after part
quarter
poop
tail | the rear part of a ship |
| good part | a place of especial strength |
weak part
weak spot
soft spot | a place of especial vulnerability |
| body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity |
| external body part | any body part visible externally |
structure
anatomical structure
complex body part
bodily structure
body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
| part parting | a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions, his part was right in the middle |
front tooth
anterior | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth, his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
| part | that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation, it requires vigilance on our part, they resisted every effort on his part |
part
section
division | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole, the written part of the exam, the finance section of the company, the BBC's engineering division |
character role
theatrical role
part persona | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, she played the part of Desdemona |
bit part
minor role | a small role |
title role
name part | the role of the character after whom the play is named |
| front | the outward appearance of a person, he put up a bold front |
meronym
part name | a word that names a part of a larger whole, `brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat' |
part of speech
form class
word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
front matter
prelims | written matter preceding the main text of a book |
part-of-speech tagger
pos tagger | a tagging program whose labels indicate a word's part of speech |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
| four-part harmony | harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines |
part
voice | the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music, he tried to sing the tenor part |
| part music | vocal music for several voices in independent parts (usually performed without accompaniment) |
| voice part | a part written for a singer |
| bass bass part | the lowest part in polyphonic music |
| sonic boom | an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound, a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship |
boom roar
roaring
thunder | a deep prolonged loud noise |
boom bonanza
gold rush
gravy
godsend
manna from heaven
windfall
bunce | 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 |
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
DFLP
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PDFLP | a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change, in the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
IBDA-C | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul, a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO |