BOOSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does booster mean? 

• BOOSTER (noun)
  The noun BOOSTER has 6 senses:

1. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

2. someone who is an active supporter and advocate

3. a thief who steals goods that are in a store

4. an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal

5. the first stage of a multistage rocket

6. an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective

  Familiarity information: BOOSTER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who backs a politician or a team etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter

Context example:

they are friends of the library

Hypernyms ("booster" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "booster"):

Whig (a supporter of the American Revolution)

verifier; voucher (someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement)

maintainer; sustainer; upholder (someone who upholds or maintains)

toaster; wassailer (someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture)

sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher (someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful)

endorser; indorser; ratifier; subscriber (someone who expresses strong approval)

Shavian (an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works)

seconder (someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote)

Roundhead (a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War)

mainstay; pillar (a prominent supporter)

Graecophile; philhellene; philhellenist (an admirer of Greece and everything Greek)

New Dealer (a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal)

loyalist; stalwart (a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt))

Jacobite (a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts)

functionalist (an adherent of functionalism)

free trader (an advocate of unrestricted international trade)

Francophil; Francophile (an admirer of France and everything French)

enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)

corporatist (a supporter of corporatism)

Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)

cheerleader (an enthusiastic and vocal supporter)

Boswell (a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds)

believer; truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)

anglophil; anglophile (an admirer of England and things English)

Derivation:

boost (contribute to the progress or growth of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who is an active supporter and advocate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

booster; plugger; promoter

Hypernyms ("booster" is a kind of...):

adman; advertiser; advertizer (someone whose business is advertising)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "booster"):

barker (someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers)

Derivation:

boost (contribute to the progress or growth of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A thief who steals goods that are in a store

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

booster; lifter; shoplifter

Hypernyms ("booster" is a kind of...):

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

booster; booster amplifier; booster station; relay link; relay station; relay transmitter

Hypernyms ("booster" is a kind of...):

amplifier (electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it)

Holonyms ("booster" is a part of...):

communication equipment; communication system (facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The first stage of a multistage rocket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

booster; booster rocket; booster unit; takeoff booster; takeoff rocket

Hypernyms ("booster" is a kind of...):

rocket; rocket engine (a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion)

Holonyms ("booster" is a part of...):

multistage rocket; step rocket (a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted)

Derivation:

boost (push or shove upward, as if from below or behind)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

booster; booster dose; booster shot; recall dose

Hypernyms ("booster" is a kind of...):

dosage; dose (a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time)

 Context examples 

Conjugate vaccines induce antibody formation in people not responsive to polysaccharide alone, induce higher levels of antibody, and show a booster response on repeated injection.

(Conjugate Vaccine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Children need another dose, or booster, at about age 12.

(Diphtheria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

A booster helps maintain or increase a protective immune response.

(Booster, NCI Dictionary)

According to DARPA, the XS-1 will be about the size of a business jet and take off vertically, propelled not by external boosters but by “self contained cryogenic propellants.”

(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)

The results showed that administering a tetanus booster before the vaccine increased dendritic cell migration to lymph nodes and significantly improved both the time without disease progression and overall survival.

(Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer, NIH)

Burning a combination of refined kerosene called RP-1 and liquid oxygen and carrying a single solid-fueled booster, the first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 pushed the spacecraft through the dense lower layers of the atmosphere, then the Centaur upper stage took over, propelling OSIRIS-REx faster and higher.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)

Then, as adults, they should get a booster every 10 years.

(Diphtheria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Patients who received the tetanus booster lived an average of more than 3 years after diagnosis compared to 1.5 years in those who received dendritic cells alone.

(Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer, NIH)