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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
booth
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ticket office/booth/counter (=a place where you can buy tickets)
▪ There was a long queue at the ticket office.
booth bunny
phone booth
photo booth
polling booth
telephone booth
voting booth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
polling
▪ He's just warning voters of the political banana skins on route to the polling booths.
▪ Pupils will cast their ballot papers in mock polling booths before school and at morning break on the day.
▪ We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth.
▪ On Feb. 25 almost 400,000 soldiers and police were deployed across the country to guard polling booths.
▪ He even brought one of the polling booths for us to examine.
▪ All those voters who shamefacedly backed the Tories in the secrecy of the polling booth are probably feeling vindicated.
■ NOUN
phone
▪ As soon as he could, he found a phone booth.
▪ He was standing in an exposed phone booth.
▪ You're a millionaire call while in a phone booth in Creeksville-in-the-Boondocks.
▪ It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth.
▪ In a phone booth, Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.
▪ The elevator is a perforated metal box no larger than a phone booth.
▪ He left the phone booth and went quickly out to the street.
photo
▪ I had to take my picture in one of them photo booths.
▪ A man sits on the floor, his back against a photo booth, with a plastic bag beside him.
▪ She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.
▪ I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth.
telephone
▪ She came back from the telephone booth quickly, looking distracted.
▪ It was Bethany in a telephone booth.
▪ Can't even dodge into a telephone booth and warn Gilman - if I could reach him.
▪ He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.
▪ Most of the bombs were mailed to bank branches or bank employees, but some were placed in telephone booths.
▪ Message-sending and letter-writing went on, and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station.
▪ You know, I just called you from a telephone booth.
ticket
▪ A ticket booth was guarded by two of these figures dressed as policemen.
▪ The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.
▪ The shutters were firmly closed at the ticket booth, the waxwork policemen staring with sightless eyes at passers-by.
▪ It will take at least half an hour to park your car and get to the ticket booths.
▪ His second came at the ticket booth, where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to.
▪ By the blind ticket booth a sign spoke four languages.
▪ It was no more than a ticket booth.
■ VERB
poll
▪ So the spooky prospect of Prime Minister Hague is just too science fiction to scare the Labour herd into the polling booths.
sit
▪ I got a cup of tea and sat down in a booth at the back.
▪ I snagged a glass of wine at the bar and then I sat in the back booth and surveyed the place.
▪ He sat in a booth in the far corner, ordered a stein of Rhine beer and waited.
▪ He sat in the rear booth, strangely anxious.
vote
▪ In many places, residents said, they forced their way into voting booths and stuffed boxes with ballots.
▪ Q: But will the issues be enough to get blacks to the voting booth in 1996; contrasted with Rev.
▪ There were no voting booths, no polling places, no campaign workers greeting neighbors outside the local high school.
▪ Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.
▪ In every state that I am aware of, help is available for those people in the voting booth, if requested.
▪ Politics does not occur only in voting booths or demonstrations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a phone booth
▪ a ticket booth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.
▪ C., which seemed to express the feelings of the entire booth.
▪ He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.
▪ It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths, but all were empty.
▪ Mulcahey pushed his way to a small booth in the rear.
▪ The election commission has therefore countermanded voting in several seats and ordered a re-poll in more than 1,000 booths.
▪ The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.
▪ They would frequently receive strange glances from those in other booths but she just ignored it.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booth

Booth \Booth\ (b[=oo][th]), n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. b[=u][eth], Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. b[=u]an to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]

  1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
    --Camden.

  2. A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or market, or at a polling place.

  3. a partly enclosed area within a room for use of one or a small number of people, such as one in a restaurant having a table and seats, or one at an exhibition containing a display of products from one organization.

  4. a small structure designed for the use of one person performing a special activity; as, a telephone booth; a highway toll booth; a projection booth; a guard booth.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
booth

mid-12c., from Old Danish boþ "temporary dwelling," from East Norse *boa "to dwell," from Proto-Germanic *bowan-, from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow" (see be). See also bound (adj.2). Compare German Bude "booth, stall," Middle Dutch boode, Lithuanian butas "house," Old Irish both "hut," Bohemian bouda, Polish buda, some probably borrowed from East Norse, some formed from the PIE root.

Wiktionary
booth

n. 1 A small stall for the display and sale of goods. 2 An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.

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WordNet
booth

  1. n. a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

  2. small area set off by walls for special use [syn: cubicle, stall, kiosk]

  3. United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865) [syn: John Wilkes Booth]

  4. a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment

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Wikipedia
Booth

Booth may refer to:

Booth (surname)

Booth is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Cheshire (4.2 times the British average), followed by Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Aberdeenshire, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire and Westmorland. In all other British counties, its relative frequency was below national average. The name Booth may refer to:

Booth (given name)

Booth is a masculine given name of English origin.

Booth (actor)

Booth (actor) may refer to:

  • Barton Booth (1681–1733), one of the most famous dramatic actors of the first part of the 18th century.
  • Edwin Booth, (1833–1893), a famous 19th-century American actor
  • Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), an English actor and father of:
    • Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. (1821–1883), an American actor and theatre manager.
    • Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893), the foremost American tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century
    • John Wilkes Booth, (1838–1865), an American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
  • Agnes Booth (1843–1910), born Marion Agnes Land Rookes, was an Australian born American actress (married to Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.)
  • Booth Colman (born 1923), a film, television and stage actor
  • James Booth (1927–2005), an English actor
  • Antony Booth (born 1931), an English actor, best known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part.
  • Billy Booth (actor), (1949–2006), an American child actor, perhaps best known for his role as Jay North's best friend Tommy Anderson on the sitcom Dennis the Menace.
  • Tim Booth (1960), an English singer, dancer, and actor best known as the lead singer from the band James.
  • Stefan Booth (1979) is an English actor and singer
  • Zachary Booth (born 1982), an American actor.
  • Douglas Booth (1992), an English actor. known for his portrayal of Boy George in the BBC Two television drama Worried About the Boy.
  • Cornelius Booth an actor best known for his role as Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.
  • Matthew Booth (actor), an English actor from Normanton, West Yorkshire
See also
  • Booth family
  • Booth's Theatre
  • Lillian Booth Actors Home
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Usage examples of "booth".

He held up a shredded ribbon of tape for Thorny to see, then flung it angrily across the booth.

Wagyu back home, sat in a booth around an immense stainless-steel griddle, and ordered a raw beef appetizer, a beef main course, beer, sake, and melon ice cream.

Warily, Solo slid out of the booth, bolstered his blaster, and continued on toward the lobby, flipping a coin to the bartender as he passed.

But in addition to the usual causesnew band uniforms and computers for the public library and funds for the Legion Auxiliary summer beautification project-every game, every booth, was pledging money to the effort to find Josh.

Now they were sitting on a bench in front of an open-air tea stand among booths selling sugared rice cakes, ear shellfish, and gift-wrapped packages of dried bonito and papery seaweed.

This booth was offering some spicy chicken wings, as well as brisket Heaven took a small bite of the chicken, which was smoky and tender, and then marked her ballot.

When the hydrofoil docked at Capri, Robert walked over to the ticket booth at the entrance to the funicular.

Signor Mantissa himself had been through them all, each booth was a permanent exhibit in memory of some time in his life when there had been a blond seamstress in Lyons, or an abortive plot to smuggle tobacco over the Pyrenees, or a minor assassination attempt in Belgrade.

As I approached the booth he looked up at menot very far upthrough slits in a face made up of bunched ovals with a nose like the corner of a building.

In the early forties, while playing an engagement somewhere in the wild West, Junius Brutus Booth did a series of kindnesses to a particularly undeserving fellow, the name of him unknown to us.

I moved forward with millimetric stealth and my left eye and the barrel of the pistol went round the corner of the third booth at the same instant.

Here, housed in haphazardly misarranged booths and stalls, temple money changers dickered rates of exchange with worshipers to convert various currencies into Tyrian shekels -- the only currency acceptable for temple offerings -- and nearby traders offered pigeons, doves, lambs, rams, and bulls for purchase as sacrifices.

You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery.

Moe could see Morello standing in the middle booth, clearly visible through the plate glass of the shop window.

The alien morphologists who had been monitoring it through the one-way glass of the control booth fronting on the examination stage that formed the escape-proof study chamber had been turned away only a few seconds, accepting mugs of steaming stimulant-laced coffee from a Tech 3.