booting
present participle ofboot
boot
verb
uk/buːt/us/buːt/bootverb(KICK)
[Tusually+ adv/prep]informal
tokicksomeone or something hard with thefoot:
They booted himinthehead.
Hitting and beating
- at-risk
- bangsomeoneup
- basher
- bashing
- battered
- brain
- bunch
- butt
- head-butt
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knocksomeone'sblock offidiom
- mess
- swing
- tansomeone'shideidiom
- tar
- wallop
- whop
- whup
bootverb(COMPUTER)
[IorT](alsoboot up)
When acomputerboots (up), itbecomesreadyfor use by getting thenecessaryinformationintoitsmemory, and when you boot (up) acomputer, youcauseit to do this.
Computer concepts
- 3-D printing
- adaptive learning
- additive manufacturing
- addy
- aeroplane mode
- capture
- computing
- information age
- information security
- information superhighway
- infosec
- internet
- ping
- portrait
- scan
- Trojan horse
- tuple
- Turing Machine
- Turing test
- UI
Phrasal verbs
bootsomeoneout (ofsomething)
bootsomeoneoff (something)
Examplesofbooting
booting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This trend reversed during the mid-growing (booting) season.
From theCambridge English Corpus
My constituents did not feel short-changed inbootinghim out.
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That is preferable to one hospital going for the profitable services andbootingout the others.
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In this case, however, they arebootinghim in the backside.
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It is not a question of anybodybootinganybody anywhere.
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I suppose that they could reduce their bill by £405 bybootingtheir daughter out.
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Multiple control sets (typically two) are kept, in the event that the settings contained in the currently-used one prohibit the system frombooting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Networkbootingcan be used to centralize management of disk storage, which supporters claim can result in reduced capital and maintenance costs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This avoided the long process ofbootingup.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also supports automatic decompression of the boot images beforebootingthem.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the first process started duringbooting, and continues running until the system is shut down.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He left the club having played 87 games andbooting12 goals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Softbootingcan be initiated by hardware such as a button press, or by software command.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are also several reports of 1557 models freezing up duringbooting, or having inaccessible hard drives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The boot loader can be manipulated at startup by holding down various key combinations to alter thebootingprocess.
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