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bloom¹
- /bluːm/ UK, Wales
- /blʉwm/ British, Southern, Standard
- /blum/ US
- /blʉːm/ Australia, New Zealand
- /blʉm/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
Sounds like Bloom · Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.
noun blooms
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics
- Flowers.
- The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. The cherry trees are in bloom.
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A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
the bloom of youth
Similar: prime
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness. a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it
- An algal bloom. Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky.
- A group of jellyfish, especially one caused by a swift increase in the population and especially when they are stranded on shore; the occurrence of such a bloom, and the ecological impact it has.
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- A bright-hued variety of some minerals. the rose-red cobalt bloom
- A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
- An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held. Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it do
- A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
- A large swarm of ladybugs. Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed.
- A residue left on a surface as a result of a chemical process. A thin yellowish "bloom" covered the film, but this polished off as before, and the metallic silver took a perfectly "black" polish.
bloom²
- /bluːm/ UK, Wales
- /blʉwm/ British, Southern, Standard
- /blum/ US
- /blʉːm/ Australia, New Zealand
- /blʉm/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
Sounds like Bloom · Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).
verb blooms · blooming · bloomed
- To cause to blossom; to make flourish. Charitable affection bloomed them.
- To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold.
- Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom.
- To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts. Shadows bloomed over the yard.
- Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness. Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
- To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
- To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
- To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
bloom³
- /bluːm/ UK, Wales
- /blʉwm/ British, Southern, Standard
- /blum/ US
- /blʉːm/ Australia, New Zealand
- /blʉm/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
Sounds like Bloom · Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From Middle English blome, from Old English blōma (“lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian Bloom, bluum, blööm (“flower”), Saterland Frisian Bloume (“flower”), West Frisian and Limburgish blom (“flower”), Bavarian Bleame, Bleaml, Bleampl (“flower”), Dutch bloem, blom (“flower”), German Blume (“flower”), Luxembourgish Blumm (“flower”), Vilamovian błum (“flower”), West Flemish blomme (“flower”), Yiddish בלום (blum, “flower”), Danish blomme (“flower”), Faroese blóma (“flower”), Icelandic blóm (“flower”), Norwegian Nynorsk blom, blome (“flower”), Swedish blomma (“flower”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma, “lily”), Vandalic *bluma (“flower”); also Breton bleuñv (“flowers; flowering”), Cornish blejan, blejen, bleujen, bleujenn (“blossom, flower”), Irish bláth (“flower”), Manx blaa (“flower; heyday”), Scottish Gaelic blàth (“bloom, blossom, flower; consequence, effect; heyday”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Latin flōs (“blossom, flower”), Greek φύλλο (fýllo, “leaf; blade; sheet; foil, plate”), Armenian բող (boġ), բոխի (boxi, “a kind of bitter field-plant, probably horse fennel, Hippomarathrum or a kind of fennel or wild parsley”), Tocharian A pält (“leaf; blade”), Tocharian B pilta (“leaf; blade”), Sanskrit फुल्ल (phulla, “full-blown flower”), पुल्ल (pulla, “flower”). Related to blow, blade, blead; also related to flower, foil, and belladonna.
noun blooms
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process. These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.
Bloom⁴
- /bluːm/
Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
English and Jewish surname converged from several origins:
* Middle English blom (“ingot”), from Old English blōma (“lump of iron”)
* Swedish Blom
* Dutch Bloem, see bloem (“flower”)
* Spelling variant of Blum
proper noun
- A surname. Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”.
- A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas.
- A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
- A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Kansas (2 or 3), Minnesota, Ohio (5), and Pennsylvania, listed under Bloom Township.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: blossom, flower, rosiness, blush, efflorescence, flush, peak, heyday, prime, blossoming, flowering, seaweed, algae, proliferation, breed, plume
Translations
Every language
noun the state of blossoming
| Français | floraison, en fleurs, efflorescence |
|---|---|
| Italiano | fioritura |
| Română | înflorire |
| Русский | цвет cvet, расцве́т rascvét, цвете́ние cveténije |
noun delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves
| Español | pruina |
|---|---|
| Français | pruine, velours, duvet |
| Deutsch | Reifbelag |
| Italiano | pruina |
| Română | brumă |
noun mineralogy: a popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals
| Français | fleur |
|---|
noun white area of cocoa butter
| Español | blanqueo, blanqueamiento |
|---|---|
| Français | voile, blanchiment |
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