Boot (disambiguation)
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Boot may refer to:
- Boot, a type of shoe that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg
- hence the transitive verb to boot and the substantivation booting mean to kick something or someone, in order to evict ('get the boot' also means be sacked) or to punish (compare slippering)
- As a slang term, booting can refer to vomiting, especially after binge drinking.
- a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase to boot (see bote for origin)
- Boot (village), a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England.
- BOOT, an acronym for Build-Own-Operate-Transfer or Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
- Bootleg recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
- Car boot, in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car, usually in the rear, in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the trunk)
A computing term:
- Bootstrapping, any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, and finance
- Booting, the operations required to place a computer into its normal operating configuration after power is supplied to the hardware
- the /boot directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
- boot, an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
- an alternative name for the ping-pong virus
A device applied to feet or wheels:
- Boot (torture), various torture devices applied to the feet or legs
- Horse boot, veterinary devices for treatment of the feet or legs of horses
- Denver boot, a wheel clamp used to immobilize a vehicle
- Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.
Boot is also the unrelated German and Dutch word for boat, hence
- Das Boot (German, meaning "The Boat"; here actually short for U-boot 'submarine') - a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, adapted into a 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen
- Boot is also a last name in the Netherlands.
The plural boots may refer to:
- Boots Group, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom which is part of Alliance Boots
- One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):
- Boots (cigarette), a brand of cigarette in Mexico
- Boots (bishop), the youngest bishop of the House of Lords, whose duty it is to read prayers.
- Boots (servant), a junior household servant whose task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes (compare bootboy)
- Boots, the talking monkey on the children's television series, Dora the Explorer
- Boötes is a constellation.
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