bloom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
chemistry
cooking
food
geography
geology
lifestyle
media
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
television
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: blooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bloomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bloomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics
gloss: Flowers.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
gloss: The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The cherry trees are in bloom.
sight of vernal bloom
O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,
⁠Who changest not in any gale,
⁠Nor branding summer suns avail
To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]
gloss: A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the bloom of youth
every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
We can have some more / Nature is a whore / Bruises on the fruit / Tender age in bloom
gloss: Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off.
gloss: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it
gloss: An algal bloom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky.
gloss: The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the rose-red cobalt bloom
gloss: A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 down.
gloss: A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
countable
plural-normally
slang
uncountable
gloss: A group of ladybugs.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
examples: Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed.
gloss: To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Charitable affection bloomed them.
gloss: To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— / While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; [...]
gloss: Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom.
gloss: To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Shadows bloomed over the yard.
Anger bloomed up from his throat.
gloss: Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete.
A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.
gloss: To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
pos: verb
gloss: To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
pos: verb
gloss: To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
pos: verb
Synonyms: blossom
flower
flourish
thrive
Derived words: abloom
algal bloom
Bloomfield
bloom is off the peach
bloom is off the rose
bloomless
bloomly
bloomsome
bloom tea
bloomy
checkerbloom
choking bloom
embloom
in bloom
iron bloom
maybloom
nanobloom
phytoplankton bloom
sunbloom
superbloom
violet bloom
water bloom
winterbloom
zinc bloom
bloomer
late bloomer
let a thousand flowers bloom
night-blooming cereus
night-blooming jasmine
outbloom
overbloom
rebloom
unbloomed
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разцъфвам
roman: razcǎfvam
lang: Esperanto
word: flori
lang: Finnish
word: kukkia
lang: German
word: blühen
lang: Northern Sami
word: lieđđut
lang: Spanish
word: florecer
lang: Ukrainian
word: цвісти́
roman: cvistý