英和和英

語源

From up- +‎ boost.

動詞

upboost (三人称単数 現在形 upboosts, 現在分詞 upboosting, 過去形および過去分詞形 upboosted)

1. (transitive, rare) to boost up
   • 1995, Jørgen Rischel, Hans Basbøll, Aspects of Danish prosody:

     A few boostings are percieved^[sic] as upboostings, but are realized in such a way that the auditively upboosted syllable is placed below the surrounding stressed syllables, and acoustically looks more like a downboosting, see fig. 11.

   • 2002, Geophysics and space physics, Volume 25, Part 3:

     On the other hand, for the application of electrodynamic tethers to upboost spacecraft, and, in particular, the International Space Station (ISS), we in general need to have currents much above 1 A (for example of the order of 10 A) to [...]

   • 2004, Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress:

     An engineer who has to be always cost conscious and should all through look towards ways and means to upboost finances of the industry through profit enhancement, must be more receptive to the idea of proper energy management.

   • 2012, Ephriam Sando, Odd Fables and Other Poems:

     A passing red rooster Tried to upboost her, But simply reduced her To roaring, And then became worried When she got flurried, So off he hurried, And snapped, “That duck is boring. I'm rather glad it's pouring.”

関連する語

• upboosting

アナグラム

• boots up, bootups