(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.
Macedonian
Definition:
(a.) Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.
(n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who last summer built a fence at the country’s border with Serbia, said on Friday another fence should be erected on the Macedonian and Bulgarian borders with Greece.
(2) St Johnstone will play Alashkert of Armenia while Aberdeen take on the Macedonian side Shkendija.
(3) Actually the ones who should be most afraid are the Macedonians,” he says to the Bayers, in a nod to the fallout between Greece and its northern neighbour.
(4) He was held incommunicado and abused in Macedonian custody for 23 days, after which he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and driven to Skopje airport, where he was handed over to the CIA and severely beaten.
(5) Restriction endonuclease mapping analyses were made of DNA from a few members of a Macedonian family with hematological characteristics of delta beta-thalassemia, ie, microcytosis, normal HbA2 levels, and elevated levels of HbF (7% to 14%) with G gamma (average 40.5%) and A gamma T chains (average 59.5%).
(6) Since the closure of the Macedonian border, more than 40,000 refugees have been trapped in squalid conditions in Greece.
(7) Various of the planned central buildings were realised on both sides: the clustered, sculptural forms of the Cyril and Methodius University and the extraordinary Opera and Ballet Theatre , both designed by Slovenian architects, and from Macedonian designers, the Telecommunications Centre – a strange, individualistic example of organic brutalism – and the Trade Centre: a long, low shopping centre of overlapping terraces stepping subtly down to the river, its combination of enclosure and openness inspired by the structure of the bazaar.
(8) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(9) Europe's migrant crisis will not slow and EU nations must share duties, says UN Read more Many of these migrants had spent several days in a bottleneck on the Greek-Macedonian border last week, when the latter country declared a state of emergency for several days before lifting the declaration on Sunday.
(10) The overhaul will include the closure of five foreign language services – Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa and Serbian; as well as the English for the Caribbean regional service – and sweeping cuts to shortwave radio broadcasts.
(11) However, wide-ranging cuts will still be implemented , with five language services – Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa, Serbian, and English for the Caribbean – due to close.
(12) Molecular analyses of DNA from over 30 unrelated cases with delta beta-thal have shown that this condition is mainly caused by a 13 kb deletion (Sicilian type); in one family a deletion of > 18 to 23 kb (Macedonian type), and in another family a deletion of 148 kb (Yugoslavian type of epsilon gamma delta beta-thal) of the globin gene complex was discovered.
(13) Macedonia ’s interior ministry said 18 Macedonian officers were injured on Saturday in the brief but intense clashes.
(14) Photograph: Helena Smith for the Observer Kalogeridis drives to the camp on the Greek-Macedonian frontier from his home in Thessaloniki at least four times every week.
(15) Kotevski said there was no coordination between Greek and Macedonian police.
(16) Either side of that change, Ferham Hasani rattled McGregor's goalframe and the goalkeeper denyied Mirko Ivanovski when one-on-one with the Macedonian striker.
(17) Macedonia police fire stun grenades as thousands of migrants rush border Read more There was no official tally of injured migrants, although Macedonian police targeted them with stun grenades and plastic bullets.
(18) Greek police did not intervene to stop the migrants but at one point placed themselves in front of their Macedonian colleagues, as the migrants would not target the Greeks.
(19) From the pre-Christian era right through to the 20th century, Skopelos was on a major shipping lane and has hosted almost every major conquering force from the Macedonians to the Nazis.
(20) We have just received the results from the lab in Hamburg and they are negative for Ebola, which means that the patient did not have the Ebola virus,” said Dr Jovanka Kostovska of the Macedonian health ministry’s commission for infectious diseases.