may refer to:
- Boot , a type of footwear that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg
- hence the transitive verb and the substantivation ''booting'' mean to kick something or someone, in order to evict ('get the boot' also means be sacked) or to punish (compare Slippering )
A term:
- Bootstrapping , any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, and finance
- Booting , the operations required to place a computer into its normal operating configuration after power is supplied to the hardware
- the /boot directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
- '' Boot '', an American computer magazine now known as ''Maximum PC''
A applied to feet or wheels:
- Boot (torture) , various torture devices applied to the feet or legs
- Horse Boot , veterinary devices for treatment of the feet or legs of horses
- Denver Boot , a clamp used to immobilize a vehicle's wheels
- Deicing Boot , a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.
:
- Bootleg Recording , often abbreviated to "boot"
- Car Boot , in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car, usually in the rear, in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the Trunk )
The plural may refer to:
- Boots Group , the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom
- One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):
- --- " Boots (Nancy Sinatra) "
- --- " Boots (KMFDM) "
- Boots (cigarette) , a brand of cigarette in Mexico
- Boots (bishop) , the youngest bishop of the House of Lords, whose duty it is to read prayers.
- Boots (servant) , a junior household servant whose task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes (''compare Bootboy '')
- Boots , the talking monkey on the children's television series, ''Dora the Explorer''
- '' Das Boot '' (German, meaning "The Boat") - a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, adapted into a 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen
:: Not be confused with the homophone " Booth ", or the homonymous German and Dutch words "Boot" and "boot" (which mean and are pronounced as " Boat ").
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