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bloom
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[bluːm], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty
(e.g: an exotic bloom)
- a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
(e.g: the bloom on a plum)
- a full, bright sound in a recording
(e.g: the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings)
Phrases:
- the bloom is off the rose
Origin
:
Middle English: from Old Norse blóm ‘flower, blossom’, blómi ‘prosperity’, blómar ‘flowers’
[bluːm], (Verb)
Definitions:
- produce flowers; be in flower
(e.g: a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed)
- coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface
Phrases:
- the bloom is off the rose
Origin
:
Middle English: from Old Norse blóm ‘flower, blossom’, blómi ‘prosperity’, blómar ‘flowers’
[bluːm], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working
(e.g: an 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace)
Phrases:
Origin
:
Old English blōma, of unknown origin
[bluːm], (Verb)
Definitions:
- make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom
Phrases:
Origin
:
Old English blōma, of unknown origin
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