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# boot

noun (a boot, boots); verb (boot, boots, booted, booting)

«boot» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A boot is a strong shoe that covers your foot and ankle and sometimes part of your leg. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#m1)
2. In British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English, the boot of a car is the space at the back for luggage (in the USA, the «trunk»). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#m2)
3. To boot something is to kick it hard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#m3)
4. To boot or boot up a computer is to start it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#m4)
5. To boot someone out is to make them leave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#m5)

### In the lessons

In everyday life you wear rain boots (wellies, gumboots) in mud and snow boots in winter; football boots (soccer cleats in the USA) for sport; safety boots on building sites. In computing, «boot» means start the computer. Phrases: «a pair of boots», «put your boots on», «wellington boots/wellies», «gumboots», «boot up», «get the boot» (be dismissed), «to boot» (as well).

### Examples

- Put your boots on; it's muddy outside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x1)
- I need new football boots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x2)
- Put the shopping in the boot of the car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x3)
- In New Zealand we call rain boots gumboots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x4)
- He booted the ball over the fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x5)
- Wait for the computer to boot up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x6)
- Cowboys wear boots with heels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x7)
- The dog chewed my left boot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x8)
- I have not got my boots! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/#x9)

### Note

Plural boots; usually «a pair of boots». Car part: boot (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) = trunk (USA, Canada). «Bonnet» (UK) = «hood» (USA) for the front. Do not confuse with «boat» or «booth».

## In Jewish tradition

A soldier's heavy shoe worn in battle. Isaiah says such boots will be burned when war ends.

**Interpretation.** Read as a picture of the age of peace, when the tools of war are destroyed.

### Examples

- For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire. (Prophets ISA.9.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boot/#x1)

### Note

Plural boots; usually «a pair of boots». Car part: boot (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) = trunk (USA, Canada). «Bonnet» (UK) = «hood» (USA) for the front. Do not confuse with «boat» or «booth».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «boot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«boot» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/boot.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «boot» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«boot» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/boot.html) on Mova free.