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boost
Found in thesaurus: help, assistance, assist, aid, increment, increase, push, pushing, elevate, bring up, lift, get up, raise, support, back up, thrust
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boost
v.
raise; push; urge
n.
push, shove; raising, lift; incentive, encouragement
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Boost
Boost or boosting may refer to:
Science, technology and mathematics
- Turbocharger boost, positive manifold pressure in engines
- Boost, a loose term for turbo or supercharger
- Jump start (vehicle), to start a vehicle
- Lorentz boost, a type of Lorentz transformation
- Boost converter, an electrical circuit variation of a DC to DC converter, which increases (boosts) the voltage
- Boost (C++ libraries), a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ libraries
- Boosting (machine learning), a supervised learning algorithm
- Intel Turbo Boost, a technology that enables a processor to run above its base operating frequency
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Boost (C++ libraries)
Boost is a set of libraries for the C++ programming language that provide support for tasks and structures such as linear algebra, pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions, and unit testing. It contains over eighty individual libraries.
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boost
Noun
1. the act of giving hope or support to someone
(synonym) encouragement
(hypernym) aid, assist, assistance, help
(hyponym) morale building, morale booster
2. an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"
(synonym) rise, hike, cost increase
(hypernym) increase, increment
(derivation) hike, hike up
3. the act of giving an upward push; "he gave her a boost over the fence"
(hypernym) push, pushing
(derivation) promote, advance, further, encourage
Verb
1. increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents"
(synonym) hike, hike up
(hypernym) raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
(derivation) rise, hike, cost increase
2. give a boost to; be beneficial to; "The tax cut will boost the economy"
(hypernym) increase
(derivation) encouragement
3. contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"
(synonym) promote, advance, further, encourage
(hypernym) support, back up
(hyponym) connive at, wink at
(derivation) supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
4. increase or raise; "boost the voltage in an electrical circuit"
(synonym) advance, supercharge
(hypernym) increase
5. push or shove upward, as if from below or behind; "The singer had to be boosted onto the stage by a special contraption"
(hypernym) thrust
(derivation) booster, booster rocket, booster unit, multistage rocket, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket
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boos
adj.
angry, mad, furious; evil, malicious, venomous
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boost
v.
zvýšit; posílit
n.
zvýšení; povzbuzení
