Atlas vs boom

Atlas

noun
  • A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line. 

name
  • The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series. 

  • A subgroup of the Berber languages. 

  • A surname. 

  • A moon of Saturn. 

  • A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. 

  • The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis. 

  • A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri. 

boom

noun
  • A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment. 

  • A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations. 

  • The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor. 

  • A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity. 

  • A rapid expansion or increase. 

  • A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera. 

  • An instance of booming. 

  • One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds. 

  • A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour. 

  • A microphone supported on such a pole. 

  • A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion. 

  • A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting. 

  • The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted. 

  • A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam. 

intj
  • The sound of a bass drum beating. 

  • Used to suggest the sound of an explosion. 

  • Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly. 

  • The sound of a cannon firing. 

verb
  • To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. 

  • To flourish, grow, or progress. 

  • To make something boom. 

  • To subject to a sonic boom. 

  • To extend, or push, with a boom or pole. 

  • Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation. 

  • To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss. 

  • To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. 

  • To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. 

  • To raise or lower with a crane boom. 

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