[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