bloom

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
2. Flowers.
3. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
4. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
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.
7. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
8. An algal bloom.
9. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
10. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
11. A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
12. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
13. An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
14. The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.

Verb

1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
3. Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
4. To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
5. Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
6. To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
7. To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
8. To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
9. To hydrate gelatin before using it.

Concepten

bloem

🌸

bloesem

🌼

bloeien

🌼

bloei

🌼

floreren

blom

rijp

spruiten

waas

blos

😊

Synoniemen

blossom

🌼

flower

🌸

flourish

open

efflorescence

prime

blooming

bud

blow

blossoming

flush

glow

flowering

heyday

expand

florescence

sprout

freshness

hatch

rosiness

ball

colour

beauty

burgeon

inflorescence

burst

youth

burst open

open up

peak

prime of life

bloom of youth

cog

flowers

prosper

prosperity

blush

😊

salad days

shine

splendour

outbreak

perfection

petal

posy

produce

produced

ripen

sheen

shoot forth

spread out

start

strength

thrive

tint

to

beam with joy

divide into

value

vigour

vitality

worth

write down

yield

youthfulness

bear fruit

become beautiful

break into pieces

in bloom

ingot steel

open out

effloresence

floweret

fruit

be cheerful

blooming period

steel ingot

cogged bloom

capped ingot

bloom steel

billet steel

steel bloom

steel feed

steel slab

May

be in blossom

adorned

be amused

begin

blank

blood

🩸

bloomed

boom

💥

bouquet

💐

brightness

brilliance

budding

cheer up

color

coloring

colouring

come out

drive

dust

effloresce

eliminate

explode

fall off

fieriness

flourishing

found

frosting

garden

germination

glare

glint

glowing

golden age

incandescence

increase

lambency

list

luminescence

lushness

luster

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/bluːm/

Etymologie (Engels)

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