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Bloom
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- 1 A surname.
"Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”."
- 2 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado.
- 3 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas.
- 4 A place in the United States:; A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
- 5 A place in the United States:; A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Kansas (2 or 3), Minnesota, Ohio (5), and Pennsylvania, listed under Bloom Township.
- 1 A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. countable, uncountable
"the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics"
- 2 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."
- 3 a powdery deposit on a surface wordnet
- 4 Flowers. collective, countable, uncountable
- 5 reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts wordnet
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- 6 The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. uncountable
"The cherry trees are in bloom."
- 7 the organic process of bearing flowers wordnet
- 8 A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"the bloom of youth"
- 9 a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health wordnet
- 10 Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek. countable, uncountable
- 11 the best time of youth wordnet
- 12 The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. countable, uncountable
"The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off."
- 13 the period of greatest prosperity or productivity wordnet
- 14 Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness. countable, uncountable
"a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it"
- 15 An algal bloom. countable, uncountable
"Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky."
- 16 The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. countable, uncountable
- 17 A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. countable, uncountable
- 18 A bright-hued variety of some minerals. countable, uncountable
"the rose-red cobalt bloom"
- 19 A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled. countable, uncountable
- 20 A natural protective coating on an eggshell. countable, uncountable
- 21 An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen. countable, uncountable
- 22 The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 23 A fan of Filipino girl group BINI. Philippines, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable
- 24 A group of ladybugs. collective, countable, uncountable
"Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed."
- 1 To cause to blossom; to make flourish. transitive
"Charitable affection bloomed them."
- 2 produce or yield flowers wordnet
- 3 To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. transitive
"The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold."
- 4 Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. intransitive
"A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom."
- 5 To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts. figuratively, intransitive
"Shadows bloomed over the yard."
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- 6 Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness. figuratively, intransitive
"Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested."
- 7 To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- 8 To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling. intransitive
- 9 To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
- 10 To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
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.
From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).
From Middle English blome, from Old English blōma (“lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Cognate with West Frisian blom, Dutch bloem, German Blume, Icelandic blóm, Danish blomme, Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma). Related to blow, blade, blead; also related to flower, foil, and belladonna.
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
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