What's the difference between bloom and blush?

Bloom


Definition:

  • (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.

Blush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
  • (v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
  • (v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
  • (v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • (v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
  • (n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
  • (n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
  • (2) Angiography of the internal carotid artery was found useful in demonstrating vascular displacements and tumor blush.
  • (3) However, almost anything can be used to blush water into wine: fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, teabags – whatever you think might taste good.
  • (4) It is concluded that the cervical sympathetic outflow is the main pathway for thermoregulatory flushing and emotional blushing and that diminution or absence of such vasodilator reactions is a usual component of Horner's syndrome unless the responsible lesion is confined to the first thoracic root.
  • (5) While Sergio Agüero has been known to leave it even later before sparing Manchester City’s blushes in the past, he could hardly have picked a better time to offer a reminder of the devastating qualities that make him the most potent striker in the Premier League when his troublesome hamstrings are not playing up.
  • (6) If the diagnosis is still unclear, selective angiography may reveal the tumor blush typical of osteoid osteoma.
  • (7) James focused a the "poor man's thermography"--a technique involving cooling of the breast by ethyl chloride sprayed onto a sponge and observing for a "blush" during recovery.
  • (8) In 58 patients with no blush, 48 showed a final diagnosis of malignant breast disease.
  • (9) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
  • (10) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (11) Parents of children in the age range 3 to 12 years were asked about their children's embarrassment and blushing during the previous six months.
  • (12) Early venous filling and vascular blush have been known for a long time with cerebral inflammatory disease, but venous drainage through irregular veins is unusual.
  • (13) An angiogram done in one patient showed a capillary blush and early cortical draining veins in the corresponding area.
  • (14) The angiographic phase of the bone scan demonstrated a well-defined radionuclide blush within the pelvis just cephalad to the urinary bladder with persistent hyperemia noted in the blood-pool image.
  • (15) This model posits that people blush when they experience undesired social attention.
  • (16) Both absolute and proportional increases were consistent with the view that the greater vascular capacitance in the visible, superficial cutaneous vasculature in the blush area accounts for the limited distribution of flushing in response to a systemic stimulus.
  • (17) Steven Wood, associate in social housing litigation at Coffin Mew LLP "The housing strategy for England is hailed as 'radical and unashamedly ambitious' but at first blush appears to predominantly be a recycling of ideas that are already out to consultation or at various stages of being enacted by changes in the law.
  • (18) Left vertebral angiography demonstrated a faint tumor blush which was confirmed to be fed by the medial and the lateral posterior choroidal and the thalamo-perforating arteries bilaterally.
  • (19) As well as that season’s first, he also saved Flanagan’s blushes there; the young full-back had conceded a needless corner with a loose cushioned header sent in the vague direction of his keeper.
  • (20) Only blushing is an expression of a reaction behaviour characteristic of human beings only.