Bloom
[bluːm] or [blum]
Definition
(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'.
Typed by Ernestine--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Katherine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Efflorescence, flower, blossom, blow.[2]. Flush, freshness, vigor.
v. n. Flower, blossom, put forth blossoms.
Checker: Rudolph
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blossom, bud, flower, sprout, germinate, beauty, freshness, delicacy
ANT:Decay, decadence, coarseness, blight, blast, harshness, roughness, toughness,superannuation, cadaverousness, ghastliness
Editor: Moore
Definition
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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Examples
- Well, not to say high-colored, but with a bloom like a Chiny rose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To whom entered Mrs Gowan, with her favourite green fan, which softened the light on the spots of bloom. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We walked round the ruined garden twice or thrice more, and it was all in bloom for me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When the process is stopped and the temporary wall in front broken down the bloom is removed with a pair of tongs from the bottom of the furnace. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The leather is then thrown into the water again, scoured upon a stone till the white substance called bloom is forced out, then rubbed with a greasy substance and hung up to dry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called _blooms_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She had not been gone from Blooms-End more than half an hour when Yeobright came by the meads from the other direction and entered the house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I can send you up some from Blooms-End, said Clym, coming forward and raising his hat as the men retired. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I thought I should have met Clym somewhere about here, but as he doesn't appear I will hasten on and get to Blooms-End before he leaves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I wonder if Thomasin has been to Blooms-End lately. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I shall soon want you to go to Blooms-End and assist me in putting the house in order. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And he left her and climbed over the hill to Blooms-End. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He saw Heloise, and was captivated by her blooming youth, her beauty, and her charming disposition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She might be thirty-nine or forty, and was buxom and blooming as a girl of twenty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The blooming Judy, without removing her gaze from the fire, gives her grandfather one ghostly poke. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was young, not indeed so beautiful as her whose portrait I held, but of an agreeable aspect, and blooming in the loveliness of youth and health. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I mourned for my child-wife, taken from her blooming world, so young. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The last flower attended to was a rose-tree, which bloomed in a quiet green nook at the back of the house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Typist: Rowland