Crossword-Solution: BOOTSTRAP
We have 5 clues for the answer “BOOTSTRAP”
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| Develop without reliance on help from others | 1 answer |
| Item for a certain lift | 1 answer |
| Metaphorical self-help aid | 1 answer |
| Self puller-upper | 1 answer |
| leather or fabric loop on the back or side of a boot | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMZCAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BOOTSTRAP (5)
Historical note: this term derives from `bootstrap loader', a short program that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in from the front panel switches.
The reason is that it’s possible for the hard disk bootstrap to be mis-installed, but a boot floppy will almost always work.
How is it possible that none of them should suspect the futility of their procedure? Or can it really be that I am uncomprehending? That in some way they are actually getting off the ground, or about to get off the ground? Then I observe a new phenomenon: a man gliding here and there among the bootstrap-lifters, approaching from the rear and slipping his hands into their pockets.
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
The ground is covered with stately temples of various designs, all of which I am told are consecrated to Bootstrap-lifting.
Quotes with BOOTSTRAP (3)
... the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do very little lifting at their own bootstraps, and less at any other man's. Now and then you may see one bend and give a delicate tug, of a purely symbolical character: as when the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Bootstrap-lifters comes once a year to wash the feet of the poor; or when the Sunday-school Superintendent of the…
The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.
Sin acts as if God's original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn't quite pan out, God offered his grace--but only the bare minimum--to make good the difference. This is exactly backwards. God's boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1972–2019).