Translate bootstrap | into Italian Definition of bootstrap
noun
1a loop at the back of a boot, used to pull it on.
2 Computing a technique of loading a program into a computer by means of a few initial instructions that enable the introduction of the rest of the program from an input device.
3 [usually as modifier] the technique of starting with existing resources to create something more complex and effective:we see the creative act as a bootstrap process
verb (bootstraps, bootstrapping, bootstrapped)
[with object] 1get (oneself or something) into or out of a situation using existing resources:the company is bootstrapping itself out of a marred financial past start up (an enterprise), especially one based on the Internet, with minimal resources:they are bootstrapping their stations themselves, not with lots of dot-com venture capital
adjective
(of a person or project) using one’s own resources rather than external help:a bootstrap capitalist’s trip up the entrepreneurial ladder
