different between sloom vs bloom

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English *sloume, sloumbe, slume, from Old English sl?ma (“sleep, slumber”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?m- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”). Compare slumber and Dutch sloom.

Alternative forms

• sloum

Noun

sloom (plural slooms)

1. A gentle sleep; slumber.

Derived terms

• sloomy

Etymology 2

From Middle English slumen, slummen, from Old English *sl?mian (“to slumber, sleep gently”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?m- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”).

Alternative forms

• sloum, sleam

Verb

sloom (third-person singular simple present slooms, present participle slooming, simple past and past participle sloomed)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
   • a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, "Elia", in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company (1854), page 193:

     To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!

   • 1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:

     Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.

   • 1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude,^[1] The Fortune Press, page 66:

     The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.

   • 2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water,^[2][3] Berkley Publishing Group (2003), ?ISBN, page 205:

     He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.

2. (of plants or soil) To soften or rot with damp.
   • a. 1807, unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine 1807, reprinted in The Farmer’s Register, Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), page 540:

     He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […]

   • 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329:

     […] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.

   • c. 1854, Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17:

     It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […]

References

• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language (1867) [4]
• sloom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Dictionary of the Scots Language, “sloom”

Anagrams

• looms, mools, osmol, slo mo, slo-mo, slomo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slo?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Etymology

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Adjective

sloom (comparative slomer, superlative sloomst)

1. sluggish, lifeless

Inflection

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

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