The Boot
Proper noun
Meaning
The Boot
(humorous) A nickname for the state of Louisiana in the United States of America.
Synonyms: (official) Pelican State, Bayou State, Creole State, Sportsman's Paradise
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Examples
About the only compromise being the boot, which is pretty small.
After a tussle, the man returns to his car, retrieves something from the boot, and appears to strike the other bin man in the head with it.
And while the hosts managed two tries to Josh Reynolds and Luciano Leilua in the second half, the Knights, led by the boot of Mitchell Pearce, remained in control.
And the T2 chip also checks that software loaded during the boot process has not been tampered with, giving the 27-inch iMac, and any Mac with the T2 chip, the most secure storage and boot process of any computer.
All memory at and above address 0x00500 can be used by the boot program; it may even overwrite itself.
An advantage of this model over the pure software RAID is that—if using a redundancy mode—the boot drive is protected from failure (due to the firmware) during the boot process even before the operating systems drivers take over.