0 present participle of boot
1 to kick someone or something hard with the foot:
They booted him in the head.
2 When a computer boots (up), it becomes ready for use by getting the necessary information into its memory, and when you boot (up) a computer, you cause it to do this.
This trend reversed during the mid-growing (booting) season.
My constituents did not feel short-changed in booting him out.
That is preferable to one hospital going for the profitable services and booting out the others.
In this case, however, they are booting him in the backside.
It is not a question of anybody booting anybody anywhere.
I suppose that they could reduce their bill by £405 by booting their daughter out.
Multiple control sets (typically two) are kept, in the event that the settings contained in the currently-used one prohibit the system from booting.
Network booting can be used to centralize management of disk storage, which supporters claim can result in reduced capital and maintenance costs.
