different between bloom vs progress

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 1

From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin pr?gressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of pr?gred? (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) +? gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pr?'gr?s, IPA^(key): /?p??????s/, /?p?????s/
• (US) enPR: prä'gr?s, pr?'gr?s, IPA^(key): /?p?????s/, /?p?o????s/, /-??s/
• Rhymes: -?????s, -????s

Noun

progress (countable and uncountable, plural progresses)

1. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]

   Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

2. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]

   Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

3. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:

     ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 124:

     With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

4. (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders:

     Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

5. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]

   The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

Usage notes

• To make progress is often used instead of the verb progress. This allows complex modification of progress in ways that can not be well approximated by adverbs modifying the verb. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

• work-in-progress

Translations

Etymology 2

From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?gr?s', IPA^(key): /p??????s/

Verb

progress (third-person singular simple present progresses, present participle progressing, simple past and past participle progressed)

1. (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

   They progress through the museum.
2. (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.

   Societies progress unevenly.

3. (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 266:

     Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogress

Translations

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Further reading

• progress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• progress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latvian

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin pr?gressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of pr?gred? (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).

Pronunciation

Noun

progress m (1st declension)

1. progress (development, esp. to a higher, fuller, more advanced state; transition from a lower to a higher level)

   Synonyms: att?st?ba, evol?cija

Declension

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