Meaning of bloom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
2. A surname.
3. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
   countable, uncountable
4. A place in the United States:
5. A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado.
6. Flowers.
   collective, countable, uncountable
7. A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of metal or other solid material:bar, rod, shaft, slab, stick.
8. An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas.
9. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
   uncountable
10. to flower or flourish. Daffodils bloom in the spring. bloei يُزْهِرُ، يُنَوِّرُ разцъфвам florescer rozkvétat blühen blomstre ανθίζω, αναπτύσσομαιflorecer õitsema شکفتن؛ گل دادن kukoistaa fleurir לִפרוֹח, לְלָבלֵב फूल खिलना cvasti virágzik mekar blómstra fiorire 咲く 꽃이 피다 žydėti ziedēt; plaukt berkembang bloeienblomstrekwitnąć ګل کول، غوړیدل florescer a înflori цвести kvitnúť cveteti cvetati blomma เบ่งบาน çiçek açmak, çiçeklenmek 開花 цвісти; розквітати پھولوں کا جوبن پر ہونا nở hoa 开花
11. A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
12. The flower of a plant.
13. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
14. A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Kansas (2 or 3), Minnesota, Ohio (5), and Pennsylvania, listed under Bloom Township.
15. The condition of being in flower: a rose in full bloom.
16. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
    countable, uncountable
17. A fresh, rosy complexion: "She was short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom" (Jane Austen).
18. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
    countable, uncountable
19. A waxy or powdery whitish to bluish coating on the surface of certain plant parts, as on cabbage leaves or on a plum or grape.
20. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
    countable, uncountable
21. An algal bloom.
    countable, uncountable
22. Glare that is caused by a shiny object reflecting too much light into a camera.
23. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
    countable, uncountable
24. A colored area on the surface of a body of water caused by large numbers of phytoplankton, especially cyanobacteria.
25. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
    countable, uncountable
26. To bear a flower or flowers.
27. A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
    countable, uncountable
28. To glow; be radiant: "Our summer-gray potbellied stove bloomed rosy red during winter" (Maya Angelou).
29. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
    countable, uncountable
30. A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
    countable, uncountable
31. 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
32. The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
    countable, uncountable
33. A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
    Philippines, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable
34. A group of ladybugs.
    collective, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics”

“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: […]”

“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”

“The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off.”

“a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it”

“Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky.”

“the rose-red cobalt bloom”

“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.”

“Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed.”

“These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.”

“Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”.”

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