(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.
Sprout
Definition:
(v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
(v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
(v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
(v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
(v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
(v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(2) Cell Biol., 101:1990-1998), the fetal antigen is specifically associated with regions of neuronal sprouting and, therefore, can be used as a molecular marker of neurite growth.
(3) Histological examination showed that in many cases these terminal sprouts appeared to reinnervate abandoned junctional sites on adjacent denervated fibers.
(4) Cytokines may be involved in stimulation of dystrophic neuritic sprouting, neuronal death, and amyloid deposition noted in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
(5) This finding suggested that in addition to growing within the host, xenogeneic transplants may also stimulate a compensatory sprouting response from the host.
(6) These results suggest that purified laminin can facilitate and guide process outgrowth of 5-HT, DA and NE neurons during early developmental stage, but does not induce sprouting on these same fiber types in the adult brain.
(7) The vascular system develops during embryonic development by at least two distinct processes; vasculogenesis is the development of blood vessels from in situ differentiating angioblasts and angiogenesis is the sprouting of capillaries from pre-existing vessels.
(8) Finally, using a newly developed paradigm for examining the composition of regenerating axons by axonal transport, we determined that significant amounts of the 57 kDa neuronal IF protein were conveyed into the regrowing axonal sprouts of DRG neurons.
(9) mRNA was prepared from muscle at different times after denervation: a maximal increase was obtained already after 1 day, consistent with an involvement in sprouting.
(10) Thus vascular sprouting and proliferation of viable tumor cells is confined to basal regions of the tumor.
(11) The bean sprout enzyme catalyzed ferredoxin-dependent electron transfer from NADPH to equine cytochrome c at a high rate but, unlike the spinach enzyme, exhibited little NADPH to 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol diaphorase activity.
(12) Three days following implantation of 2 x 10(5) tumor cells onto the striated skin muscle, capillary sprouts were noted in the tumor cell mass.
(13) Virtually no B-50 immunoreactivity was seen in control nerves, but bright immunofluorescence appeared in regenerating sprouts.
(14) The nucleoside phosphotransferase from malt sprouts contains one Mg2 per dimeric enzyme molecule.
(15) The contrasting effects on sprouting and the eventual quality of repair of mechanically lesioned nerves have suggested a mechanism whereby sprouting may regulate perikaryal adjustments to injury.
(16) Neurotoxin lesioning of 5-HT fibers selectively induced the homotypic collateral sprouting of spared 5-HT fibers in the hippocampus.
(17) In control rats, a similar sprouting reaction occurred, but the maximal distance of elongation rarely exceeded 1 mm.
(18) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.
(19) Preterminal, intranodal, and intraterminal sprouting were found to significantly increase from 1 to 6 months following partial denervation.
(20) In the cerebellum a progressive regeneration and apparent sprouting of NE fibers was observed.