(n.) A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
(n.) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
(n.) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
(n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
(n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
(n.) A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
(n.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
(v. i.) To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
(v. i.) To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
(v. t.) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
(n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
(n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
(2) The localization of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome in chromosomes of human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) transformed with EBV, and the effect of EBV DNA on the level of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in Bloom's syndrome (BS) B-LCLs, were examined with chromosomal in situ hybridization techniques using a 3H-EBV DNA probe.
(3) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(4) "Tell Harold Bloom, I've had much posher recommendations," she says, chuckling.
(5) We report the occurence of Norwegian scabies in a 13-year-old boy with Bloom's syndrome who had impaired humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
(6) Dose response curves for acute and protracted exposures have been obtained for cells derived from patients with cancer-prone syndromes including ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and Bloom's syndrome.
(7) The concentration of acetate in the interstitial water fell from about 100 microM (immediately after sedimentation of the spring diatom bloom) to a relatively constant value of about 20 microM in late summer, during which acetate utilization appeared to be balanced by production.
(8) In addition, three experiments in the present study have demonstrated that the findings in Bloom's sole interpretable experiment were artifacts due to a methodological flaw.
(9) It also suggests that the chromatid breaks and deletions in Fanconi's Anemia represent a defect in step two of the replication bypass mechanism and that the high frequency of SCE's and quadriradials in Bloom's Syndrome represent the SCE overload effects of a defect in crosslink repair.
(10) In all cases, patient's age, tumor size, histological type and Scarff-Bloom-Richardson grade, and presence or absence of axillary lymph node metastases and of vessel invasion in tumor borders were recorded.
(11) We discuss in particular the mattress-model approach by Mouritsen and Bloom, who take matching between protein and lipid hydrophobic thicknesses as a determining factor for the phase behavior.
(12) The neurotoxic blooms consisted largely of benthic Oscillatoria species which were also observed in the stomach contents of the poisoned dogs.
(13) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
(14) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
(15) Burns characteristically bloomed during the several seconds following laser application by both modalities, possibly indicating a deep source of energy absorption.
(16) The main cause for such algal blooms is an overload of phosphorus, which washes into lakes from commercial fertiliser used by farming operations as well as urban water-treatment centres.
(17) Water-bloom spots in which Oscillatoria prevailed can transform into the spots of Anabaena.
(18) Harmful algal blooms fuelled by water pollution are getting so large that they are visible from space.
(19) DNA ligase activity was studied in several untransformed or virus-transformed human cell lines from normal donors and from Bloom's syndrome (BS) patients.
(20) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
Blossoming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blossom
Example Sentences:
(1) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
(2) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
(3) Time, he reasoned, to let a new and younger leadership “blossom”.
(4) The aim will be to try and keep market interest rate expectations low to allow the nascent recovery to blossom into something stronger and more sustainable," Wood said.
(5) Bibi-watchers are focused now on how the Israeli leader will play the next six months, in which the Geneva agreement will either blossom into a lasting accord or break apart.
(6) In your magazine, there was a beautifully written article by Dan Pearson on spring blossom, observed at a time of great personal stress.
(7) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(8) That moment, however, before the blossom breaks, is perhaps the most wondrous.
(9) On Saturdays, the farmers market blossoms in the parking lot outside with producers and “street fooders”.
(10) During that summer of 1956, Khrushchev's thaw blossomed and Muscovites relaxed a little more.
(11) Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
(12) However, one must consider the attitudes that prevailed at the time, the high rate of fetal and infant mortality, and the blossoming role of museums as repositories of knowledge.
(13) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
(14) Below my window in Ross, when I'm working in Ross, for example, there at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early.
(15) He rises early to paint nature in all her wild exuberance … (the blossom) is as if a thick white cream had been poured over everything … just an intense visual pleasure."
(16) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
(17) Innovations in drug delivery systems and skyrocketing health care costs have fostered the growth of home health care which has blossomed into a $2.8 billion industry.
(18) Their brains are unable to make the neural connections that they should; their cognitive ability does not blossom.
(19) But even as error rates stayed stable, student essays have blossomed in size and complexity.
(20) Under Pep Guardiola, the under-21 international has blossomed into a midfield leader and played as a makeshift centre-back in impressive fashion.