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Meaning of boot

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  boot
      n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
      2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car
      3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
         great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush
         from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: {bang},
         {boot}, {charge}, {rush}, {flush}, {thrill}, {kick}]
      4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg
      5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the
         foot and leg [syn: {boot}, {the boot}, {iron boot}, {iron
         heel}]
      6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron
         and slowly crushed
      7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball
         a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn:
         {kick}, {boot}, {kicking}]
      v 1: kick; give a boot to
      2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial
         processes; "boot your computer" [syn: {boot}, {reboot},
         {bring up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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