boom vs mushroom

boom

verb
  • To flourish, grow, or progress. 

  • To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. 

  • 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. 

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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment. 

  • 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. 

mushroom

verb
  • To grow quickly to a large size. 

  • To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target. 

  • To form the shape of a mushroom. 

  • To gather mushrooms. 

adj
  • Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture. 

noun
  • A fungus producing such fruiting bodies. 

  • A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab. 

  • Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood). 

  • Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly. 

  • Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking. 

  • Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards. 

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