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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
booting en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) A kicking, as with a booted foot.
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(countable, uncountable) The act by which a computer is booted.
[…] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting,
Because I sport, about King Henries marriage:
Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage.
But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.
1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […] :
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(Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable) Homicide by gunfire.
Just got bail, three shootings
I ain’t gotta call up Pacman
To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu)
Tryna aim for your head
Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him
2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP: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)
2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):
Forms
Coordinates
chinging
Deriveds
multibooting · nonbooting
booting en · VERB
Pronunciation
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of boot