Boot

"Boot" is also slang in many parts of America for an African-American, or negro. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "C" and "c" for upper and lower case respectively. "To boot" means "to vomit." Used primarily by young American fraternity men. The EBCDIC code for capital C is 195 and for lowercase c is 131. "To boot" means "in addition to.". The ASCII code for capital C is 67 and for lowercase c is 99; or in binary 01000011 and 01100011, respectively. "The boot is on the other foot now" means that a situation has become reversed -- a previous victor is now losing, for example. In Unicode the capital C is codepoint U+0043 and the lowercase c is U+0063.

To "put the boot in" means to kick someone especially hard, to add additional pain on top of an already hard situation. As a phonetic symbol, lowercase c is the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless palatal plosive, and capital C is the X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless palatal fricative. To "give someone the boot" means to kick them out (of a job, a club, etc.), either literally or figuratively. The digraph CZ is found in Polish and CS in Hungarian, both representing /ʧ/. The "boot", in British English, means the trunk of a car. CK, with the value /k/, is often used after short vowels in Germanic languages such as English, German and Swedish (but some other Germanic languages use KK instead, such as Dutch and Norwegian). Stormtroopers, skinheads, and other agents of authority or political strongarm tactics are typically referred to by their detractors as "jackbooted thugs." Authoritarian rule, either by hostile military forces, or by groups of armed intimidators, is imposed by "jackboot tactics.". CH takes various values in other languages, such as /ç/, /k/, or /x/ in German, /ʃ/ in French, /k/ in Italian, /ʈʂʰ/ in Mandarin Chinese, and so forth.

"Jackboots" are a general term for combat boots. In English, CH most commonly takes the value /ʧ/, but can take the value /k/ or /x/, usually when transliterating Greek Χ or Hebrew. Boot camp a colloquial term for the initial training of new recruits enlisting in a military organization. There are several common digraphs with C, the most common being CH, which in some languages such as German is far more common than C alone. To "die with one's boots on" means to die from violence as opposed to from natural causes (to "die in bed"); hence Boot Hill as a popular name for Wild West cemeteries. Other languages use C with different values, such as /k/ regardless of position in Irish, Welsh, /θ/ in Fijian, /ʤ/ in Turkish, Tatar, Azeri, /ʧ/ in Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, /ʦ/ in Czech, Croatian, Esperanto, Hungarian, Polish, Romanized Chinese, Serbian, Latvian. Another fate of a discarded boot is in the construction of a musical instrument known as the "mendoza". Romance languages obey similar rules, but the soft value is different in several languages, taking on /θ/ in European Castilian and /ʧ/ (like English CH) in Italian and Romanian.

This can be seen in many cartoons, parodies, etc., and is usually depicted dripping with weeds and with part of the sole detached, giving the impression of an open mouth. In English and French, C takes the "hard" value /k/ finally and before A, O, and U, and the "soft" value /s/ before E, I, or Y. A long established cliché of anglers, especially those who are inexperienced or angling in waters known to be poor for fish, is that of the "old boot", caught in place of the expected fish. The Romance languages and English have a common feature inherited from Vulgar Latin where C takes on either a "hard" or "soft" value depending on the following vowel. Boots, particularly those worn as protective footwear by workers (work boots) have a reputation for being as hard-wearing as their owners, hence the expression "tough as old boots". /k/ developed palatal and velar allophones in Latin, probably due to Etruscan influence. A German legend about a boy lifting himself by his bootstraps into the air, allowing him to fly, has led to the word's metaphorical use in many different contexts; see bootstrapping and booting. .

Tall boots, such as those designed for military dress and horseback riding may have a tab, loop or handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a tool to provide better leverage in getting the boots on. Other alphabets have letters identical to C in form but not in use and derivation, in particular the Cyrillic letter Es which derives from one form of the Greek letter sigma, known as the "lunate sigma" from its resemblance to a crescent moon. Boots have their own devotees among shoe fetishists and foot fetishists. Some scholars claim that the Semitic ג (gîmel) pictured a camel, but most assume it was probably gaml (a throwing stick/boomerang). Specialty boots have been designed for many different types of sport, particularly Rugby football or soccer, riding, skiing and snowboarding, skating, and sporting in wet conditions. It is possible but uncertain that C represented only /g/ at an even earlier time, while K might have been used for /k/. Fashionable boots for women may have all the variations seen in other fashion footwear: tapered or spike heels, platform soles, pointed toes, zipper closures and the rest. In the beginning, the Romans used C for both /k/ and /g/, only later adding a horizontal bar at right-center to produce G.

Martens) were adopted by skinheads and punks as part of their typical dress, and have migrated from there to more mainstream fashion, including women's wear. In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive voicing, so the Greek Γ (Gamma) was used to represent /k/. Such work boots (like the popular Dr. Its name in English is cee (IPA [si:]). However most work boots are "laceups" made from leather and shod with hobnails, and heel- and toe-plates. C (lowercase c) is the third letter of the Roman alphabet. Specialty boots have been made to temporarily protect steelworkers if they get caught in pools of molten metal; to protect chemical workers from a wide variety of chemical exposure; and there are insulated, inflatable, boots designed for walking in the Antarctic continent. On the serial numbers of United States dollars, C identifies the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Other types of boots are sturdy in nature, meant for protection in wilderness or industrial settings. In terminals under Unix-like operating systems, Ctrl-C sends the INT signal. Simple waterproof gumboots are made in different length of uppers and, in extreme cases, thigh-boots called "waders" by anglers end at waist-level of the wearer. In Microsoft Windows, Ctrl-C, (in Mac OS, Command-C) copies the selected text, image or sound and places it on the clipboard. Boots which are designed as protection from the elements may be made of a single closely-stitched piece (of leather, rubber, etc) to prevent the entry of water, mud or dirt through the gaps left between laces and tongue in other types of shoes. In economics, C is usually used to represent consumption. . As a timezone, C is the military designation for UTC+3, also known as MSK or Moscow Time.

Originally boots were made for working wear. In temperature, °C is the symbol for degrees Celsius (there is also a separate Unicode character for this symbol, U+2103 "℃"). Most have a heel which is clearly distinguishable from the rest of the sole, even if the two are made of one piece. In Canadian television, the C rating indicates a program intended to be viewed by children. They come in every imaginable variation of height, color, material and style. In Roman numerals, C denotes one hundred (centum in Latin; there are also separate Unicode characters for this number, U+216D "Ⅽ" and U+217D "ⅽ"). A boot is a type of footwear which covers at least the foot and usually the ankle, and sometimes extends up to the knee or even the hip. In Roman naming convention, C is the abbreviation for the praenomen Gaius.

Wedge boots. In rail transport, C is the UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement known as 0-6-0 in the Whyte notation; a locomotive with three powered axles (and thus six wheels) in which the axles are linked by gearing or side rods. Ugg boots. In publishing, c with an enclosing circle, ©, denotes copyright. Spats. In Canada, C stands for Prince Edward Island. Inline skates. As the first letter of a postal code,