BOOT UP meaning: Starting a computer's operating system

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boot-up: Wordnik
boot up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
boot up: Wiktionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (boot up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To start a computer using its bootstrap procedure.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, of a computer) To start, using its bootstrap procedure.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To start a computer program or a recording of a movie, show or song.

Similar:

boot, bootstrap, autoboot, cold boot, autostart, POST, chain, hotplug, autorun, initialize, more...

Opposite:

shut down, turn off, power down

Types:

reboot, restart, power on, power up, more...

Adjectives:

bootable, redial, cutover, reorient, reiterate, nait, reweighted, rewrought, repeated, rewoven, rematched

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