bloom

[bloom]

A bloom is a flower. You might mark the beginning of spring by the very first bloom you see in your garden.

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A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

Noun
a powdery deposit on a surface

Noun
reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

Noun
the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"

Noun
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

Noun
the best time of youth

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Noun
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Verb
produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed"


n.
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

n.
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.

n.
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

n.
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

n.
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

n.
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

n.
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

v. i.
To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

v. i.
To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

v. t.
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

v. t.
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

n.
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

n.
A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.


Bloom

Bloom , n. [OE. blome, fr. Icel. blm, blmi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. blma, OS. blmo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. blwan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom.] 1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
The rich blooms of the tropics.
2. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." Milton. 3. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
4. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.
5. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. 6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. Knight. 7. A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

Bloom

Bloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bloomed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooming.] 1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom.
2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
A better country blooms to view,
Beneath a brighter sky.

Bloom

Bloom, v. t. 1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.]
Charitable affection bloomed them.
2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] Milton.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.

Bloom

Bloom, n. [AS. blma a mass or lump, 'c6senes blma a lump or wedge of iron.] (Metal.) (a) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. (b) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

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Usage Examples

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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Other Usage Examples

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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