Saturday, December 6, 2008

Bootstrap

1. a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a boot to facilitate pulling it on. 2. a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something: He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters. 3. 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.
—adj. 1. relying entirely on one's efforts and resources: The business was a bootstrap operation for the first ten years. 2. self-generating or self-sustaining: a bootstrap process.
—v.t. 1. Computers.boot1 (def. 26). 2. to help (oneself) without the aid of others: She spent years bootstrapping herself through college.

6 comments:

Creation said...

I like your new apporach towards posting..a word, definition and a pic(s) .. that's deep..

Creation said...

"Cute" written over the boy's slippers ...

Maqsood Qureshi said...

acha laga? Feedback kay liye bahut shukriya -- badi Observant ho --

Creation said...

What exactly is Satyameva Jayate ?

Maqsood Qureshi said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyameva_Jayate

Creation said...

Do you know Sanskrit ?