boot
boot 英 [bu:t] 美 [but]
n. 靴子；踢；(汽车后部的)行李箱
进行时:booting 过去式:booted 过去分词:booted 第三人称单数:boots 名词复数:boots
- A boot is the kind of shoe that can rise as high as your knee, like riding boots, or just up to your ankle, like silver-studded Beatle boots. To boot means to kick something (with or without the fancy footwear).
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- n. 靴子；踢；(汽车后部的)行李箱
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1. walking boots
便靴
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2. hiking boots
旅行靴
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3. a pair of black leather boots
一双黑皮靴
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4. cowboy boots
牛仔靴
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5. I'll put the luggage in the boot.
我去把行李放进行李箱里。
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6. He gave the ball a tremendous boot.
他抽起脚猛踢了一下球。
- boot (n.1) "covering for the foot and lower leg," early 14c., from Old French bote "boot" (12c.), with corresponding words in Provençal, Spanish, and Medieval Latin, all of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source. Originally of riding boots only.
- boot (n.2) "profit, use," Old English bot "help, relief, advantage; atonement," literally "a making better," from Proto-Germanic *boto (see better (adj.)). Compare German Buße "penance, atonement," Gothic botha "advantage." Now mostly in phrase to boot (Old English to bote), indicating something thrown in by one of the parties to a bargain as an additional consideration.
- boot (v.1) "to kick, drive by kicking," 1877, American English, from boot (n.1). Earlier "to beat with a boot" (a military punishment), 1802. Generalized sense of "eject, kick (out)" is from 1880. To give (someone) the boot "dismiss, kick out" is from 1888. Related: Booted; booting.
- boot (v.2) 1975, transitive, "start up (a computer) by causing an operating system to load in the memory," 1975, from bootstrap (v.), a 1958 derived verb from bootstrap (n.) in the computer sense "fixed sequence of instructions to load the operating system of a computer" (1953). This is from the notion of the first-loaded program pulling itself (and the rest) up by the bootstrap, an old expression for "better oneself by rigorous, unaided effort." Intransitive, of a computer operating system, from 1983. Related: Booted; booting.
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