bloom
noun
[ bluːm ]
• a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty.
• "an exotic bloom"
• a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems.
• "the bloom on a plum"
• a full, bright sound in a recording.
• "the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings"
bloom
verb
• produce flowers; be in flower.
• "a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed"
Similar:
blossom,
flower,
be in blossom/flower,
come into flower/blossom,
open,
open out,
bud,
sprout,
burgeon,
mature,
• coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse blóm ‘flower, blossom’, blómi ‘prosperity’, blómar ‘flowers’.
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
verb
• make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.
Origin:
Old English blōma, of unknown origin.
