Booth

Booth

Booth may refer to:

In architecture:

*Isolation booth, device used to prevent a person or people from seeing or hearing certain events
*Photo booth, vending machine or modern kiosk which contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor
*Voting booth, where voters attend to cast their ballot in an election as part of the voting process in a democracy or republic
*Telephone booth, small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience
*Ticket booth, place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue
*Toll booth, road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use
*Food booth, a temporary structure from which food is sold to the general public.

In fiction:

*Agony booth, a fictional device in the "Star Trek" universe
*Suicide booth, a fictional machine in the animated series "Futurama"
*"Phone Booth" (film), a 2003 movie with Kiefer Sutherland

In entertainment:

*"Booth", a play by Austin Pendleton
*Booth Savage, Canadian actor
*Seeley Booth, a character from the TV show "Bones"

In geography:
*Booth, Alabama
*Booth, East Riding of Yorkshire, a small village near Goole.
*Booth, Texas

In theatre:

*Control booth, the area of the theater designated for the operation of technical equipment.

In other fields:

*John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
*Booth babe, person hired to help increase awareness about a product or service during an industry conference or trade show
*Booth Gardner, American politician
*Booth House, prominent heritage building in downtown Ottawa
*Booth Island, rugged, Y-shaped island
*Booth Tarkington, American writer
*Booth's multiplication algorithm, algorithm invented by Andrew D. Booth
*Taylor Booth, a mathematician specialist of automata theory

ee also

*Booth (surname)


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