What's the difference between bloom and burgeon?

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.

Burgeon


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To bud. See Bourgeon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
  • (2) "This is a major milestone and testament to the burgeoning reputation of UK automotive excellence and demand for British-made cars."
  • (3) For 20 years the great British inequality machine has hurtled on, driven largely by the burgeoning incomes of this top 0.1% – almost all of whom are directors, bankers or work in business services and real estate – who captured the lion’s share of any gains in real productivity.
  • (4) Founded by the former US Navy Seal Erik Prince, Blackwater seized on the burgeoning private security contracts that emerged after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
  • (5) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
  • (6) He is an expert on the public health problems that plague El Paso and the other cities along the international border, all of which are exacerbated by abject poverty and a burgeoning population.
  • (7) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
  • (8) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
  • (9) There’s a burgeoning wine industry with tasting rooms, several craft breweries and some great restaurants (try Goldy’s for breakfast).
  • (10) Burgeoning health care costs coupled with an increased focus on health promotion and illness prevention have created new demands on the health care delivery system.
  • (11) Despite his relative political impotency in Congress, the president hopes to use recent US economic strength to rally support outside Washington not just for a more radical policy agenda in his last two years in office, but for a burgeoning 2016 election debate in both parties about inequality and social mobility.
  • (12) In comparison to older methods, the bleeding severity index is highly reproducible and should be tested more widely to determine whether it can be applied to the burgeoning clinical research in anticoagulation and thrombolysis.
  • (13) Information is burgeoning with the advent of molecular genetics, and we anticipate therapeutic options when gene products are discovered.
  • (14) Wednesday's demonstration flight was mostly carrying representatives from Indonesian airlines, which are rapidly expanding to serve a burgeoning middle class in the sprawling archipelago where air travel between islands is a quicker alternative to ferries.
  • (15) This paper examines the ethical issues of conflict of interest raised by the burgeoning development of physician involvement in for-profit entrepreneurial activities outside their practice.
  • (16) Desalination has become the preferred method for water-stressed cities near to coasts to provide clean water for burgeoning populations.
  • (17) Professor Mthuli Ncube, chief economist of the African Development Bank, said that the "Africa rising" narrative is intact, adding: "Even in the face of headwinds, we still see the same drivers in place, if not even stronger, be they political progress in terms of governance and macroeconomic stability or burgeoning domestic demand from the middle class .
  • (18) 4 The DiamondMinecart 62.5m views Daily Minecraft videos, spotlighting the burgeoning community around "mods" for the game.
  • (19) On jobs, De Blasio said his administration would advance a dedicated science, technology, engineering and math program at the City University of New York which will prepare more students for jobs in New York City’s burgeoning tech industry.
  • (20) In the south and west, in contrast, the numbers of faithful are growing fast thanks to a burgeoning Hispanic population.