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bootstrap
[ boot-strap ]
noun
- a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a boot none to facilitate pulling it on.
- a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something:
He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
adjective
- relying entirely on one's efforts and resources:
The business was a bootstrap operation for the first ten years.
- self-generating or self-sustaining:
a bootstrap process.
verb (used with object)
- Computers. boot 1( defs 21, 26 ).
- to help (oneself) without the aid of others:
She spent years bootstrapping herself through college.
bootstrap
/ ˈːˌٰæ /
noun
- a leather or fabric loop on the back or side of a boot for pulling it on
- by one's bootstraps or by one's own bootstrapsby one's own efforts; unaided
- modifier self-acting or self-sufficient, as an electronic amplifier that uses its output voltage to bias its input
- Alsoboot a technique for loading the first few program instructions into a computer main store to enable the rest of the program to be introduced from an input device
- ( as modifier )
a bootstrap loader
- commerce an offer to purchase a controlling interest in a company, esp with the intention of purchasing the remainder of the equity at a lower price
verb
- to set up or achieve (something) using minimal resources
- foll by to to attach (something) to a larger or more important thing
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bootstrap1
Idioms and Phrases
- pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, to help oneself without the aid of others; use one's resources:
I admire him for pulling himself up by his own bootstraps.
Example Sentences
Pulling up your bootstraps and spraying some tough on it is important.
Taking away whatever access people now have will not compel them to bootstrap their way to better health.
We didn’t literally pull ourselves up by the bootstraps or walk to school through the snow without shoes.
"TRUMP token just signaled to every company, municipality, university & individual brand that crypto can now be used as a capital formation and customer bootstrapping mechanism," Jeff Dorman from investing firm Arca posted online.
In your discussion of cheating social death, you reference "bootstrapping," which you describe as “using the established part of an existing system to create a new one that serves a fundamentally different form or function.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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