noun
verb
- Enroll into service compulsorily.
- usage: "The men were conscripted"
Conscript and Boot
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
- (n.) One taken by lot or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
- (a.) Enrolled; written; registered.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg.
- British term for the luggage compartment in a car.
- The swift release of a store of affective force.
- usage: "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
- Protective casing for something that resembles a leg.
- An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg.
- A form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed.
- The act of delivering a blow with the foot.
- usage: "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent"
verb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
- (n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
- (n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
- (n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
- (n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
- (v.t.) To put boots on, especially for riding.
- (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
- (n.) Booty; spoil.
- (v.t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
- (n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
- (v.t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?.
- (n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
- (v.t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
- (n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
- (n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Money or other property that is not like-kind, which is given to make up any difference in value or equity between exchanged properties.' boot' may be in the form of cash, notes, gems, the market value of an asset such as a mortgage, land contract, personal property, goodwill, a service or a patent offered in an exchange. The taxable gain in the like-kind exchange is recognized immediately to the extent of boot, whereas, other gain from the exchange may be deferred until subsequent transfer. (See exchange, like-kind).