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.