different between bloom vs glaucous

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blu?m/
• Homophone: Bloom
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *bl?mô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
   • 1843, William H. Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico

     the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics

2. (collective) Flowers.
3. (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
4. (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

   • every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.

5. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
6. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
   • 2010, Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, Low-Carb Smoothies

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

7. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
8. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
9. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

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10. (mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.

11. (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
12. (television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.

Synonyms

• (flower of a plant): blossom, flower
• (opening of flowers): blossom, flower
• (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness): flush, glow

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).

Verb

bloom (third-person singular simple present blooms, present participle blooming, simple past and past participle bloomed)

1. (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Charitable affection bloomed them.

2. (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

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3. (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
   • a. 1788, John Logan, A Tale

     A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.

5. (cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.

Synonyms

• (produce blooms): blossom, flower
• (flourish): blossom, flourish, thrive

Derived terms

• bloomer
• late bloomer

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English blome, from Old English bl?ma (“flower; lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?mô (“flower”). Cognate with West Frisian blom, Dutch bloem, German Blume, Icelandic blóm, Danish blomme, Gothic ???????????????????? (bl?ma). Related to blow, blade, blead; also a doublet of flower, foil, and belladonna.

Noun

bloom (plural blooms)

1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 26:

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

Related terms

• bloomery
• blooming

Translations

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English broom.

Noun

bloom

1. broom

Derived terms

• mamook bloom

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English bloom.

Noun

bloom m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. (metallurgy) bloom

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l??.k?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?.k?s/, /??l?.k?s/
• Rhymes: -??k?s

Adjective

glaucous (comparative more glaucous, superlative most glaucous)

1. (color) Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
2. (botany) Covered with a bloom or a pale powdery covering, regardless of colour.

Derived terms

• glaucous gull
• glaucous sedge
• glaucous-winged gull

Related terms

• glaucescent
• glaucoma
• glauconite
• subglaucous

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References