Boot (disambiguation)

Boot may refer to:
* Boot, a type of shoe that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg
** Derived from this meaning, to "boot" can mean:
*** to kick something or someone
*** to evict
*** to be terminated from a place of employment
*** to punish
* Car boot, in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the "trunk"). Hence a Car boot sale for the sale of items from car boots.
* Car boot (tonneau cover), used for concealing a retracted convertible top.
* boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage.
* A wheel clamp, also known as a "Denver boot", which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement.
* A recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy or an inexperienced Marine or Sailor.
* Bote, a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase "to boot"
* Boot (real estate), receipt of something of value, especially in the course of a 1031 exchange
* Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England
* Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
* Bootleg recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
* boot, the outer shell of a Reed pipe in a pipe organ.
* boot, to vomit, especially after binge drinking (slang)
* boot, the German and Dutch word for boat
*Das Boot a 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name
* Boot, a last name in the Netherlands
**Jacob Boot (1903-1986), Dutch athlete
* William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel "Scoop"

Computing

* 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"
* boot, an alternative name for the ping-pong virus
* boot, or booting, to eject someone from a chatroom.
* Boot camp, a program on Mac OS X v10.5 used to run Windows XP/Vista.

Devices

* 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 wheel clamp used to immobilize a vehicle
* Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.

Boots

* Boots, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, who served in the British Army in Burma
* Alliance Boots, a British based pharmaceuticals company
** Boots Group, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom
* One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):
** "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
** "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"

See also

*Boötes, a constellation.