-
Bloom (noun)
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
-
Bloom (noun)
Flowers, collectively.
-
Bloom (noun)
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
“The cherry trees are in bloom.”
-
Bloom (noun)
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
“the bloom of youth”
-
Bloom (noun)
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
-
Bloom (noun)
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
-
Bloom (noun)
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
-
Bloom (noun)
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
-
Bloom (noun)
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
“the rose-red cobalt bloom”
-
Bloom (noun)
A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
-
Bloom (noun)
An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
-
Bloom (noun)
The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
-
Bloom (verb)
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
-
Bloom (verb)
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
-
Bloom (verb)
Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
-
Bloom (verb)
Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
-
Flourish (verb)
To thrive or grow well.
“The barley flourished in the warm weather.”
-
Flourish (verb)
To prosper or fare well.
“The town flourished with the coming of the railway.”
“The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.”
-
Flourish (verb)
To be in a period of greatest influence.
“His writing flourished before the war.”
-
Flourish (verb)
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
-
Flourish (verb)
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
“They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.”
-
Flourish (verb)
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
-
Flourish (verb)
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
-
Flourish (verb)
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
-
Flourish (verb)
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
-
Flourish (verb)
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
-
Flourish (verb)
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
-
Flourish (noun)
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
“With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.”
-
Flourish (noun)
An ornamentation.
“His signature ended with a flourish.”
-
Flourish (noun)
A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
“The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.”
-
Flourish (noun)
A decorative embellishment on a building.
-
Bloom (noun)
a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty
“an exotic bloom”
-
Bloom (noun)
the state or period of flowering
“the apple trees were in bloom”
-
Bloom (noun)
the state or period of greatest beauty, freshness, or vigour
“I am no longer in the bloom of youth”
-
Bloom (noun)
a youthful or healthy glow in a person’s complexion
“her face had lost its usual bloom”
-
Bloom (noun)
a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
“the bloom on a plum”
-
Bloom (noun)
a greyish-white appearance on chocolate caused by cocoa butter rising to the surface.
-
Bloom (noun)
short for algal bloom
-
Bloom (noun)
a full, bright sound in a recording
“the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings”
-
Bloom (noun)
a mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working
“an 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace”
-
Bloom (noun)
an unworked mass of puddled iron.
-
Bloom (verb)
produce flowers; be in flower
“a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed”
-
Bloom (verb)
come into or be in full beauty or health; flourish
“the children had bloomed in the soft Devonshire air”
-
Bloom (verb)
(of fire, colour, or light) become radiant and glowing
“colour bloomed in her cheeks”
-
Bloom (verb)
coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.
-
Bloom (verb)
make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.