Bloom

[bluːm] or [blum]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) the best time of youth.

(verb.) produce or yield flowers; 'The cherry tree bloomed'.

欧内斯廷編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

整理:凯瑟琳

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Efflorescence, flower, blossom, blow.[2]. Flush, freshness, vigor.

v. n. Flower, blossom, put forth blossoms.

錄入:鲁道夫

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Blossom, bud, flower, sprout, germinate, beauty, freshness, delicacy

ANT:Decay, decadence, coarseness, blight, blast, harshness, roughness, toughness,superannuation, cadaverousness, ghastliness

編輯:摩尔

解釋/意思:

v.i. to put forth blossoms: to flower: to be in a state of beauty or vigour: to flourish: to give a bloom or warm tint to anything.—n. a blossom or flower: the opening of flowers: rosy colour: the prime or highest perfection of anything: the first freshness of beauty of anything: the flush or glow on the cheek—(Spens.) Blosme.—p.adj. Bloom′ing bright shining flourishing: (slang) full-blown.—adjs. Bloom′less without bloom; Bloom′y flowery: flourishing.

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