What's the difference between blossom and transfigure?

Blossom


Definition:

  • (n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
  • (n.) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
  • (n.) The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
  • (n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
  • (n.) To flourish and prosper.

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.

Transfigure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
  • (v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is too early to say and may well turn out to be none of the above, but a transfiguration unique to its time and place.
  • (2) The Crystal World is surely Ballard's most gorgeous calamity: apocalypse not as abolition but as transfiguration.
  • (3) With more than 3 years' follow-up, dramatic clinical transfiguration of granuloma annulare was observed in a 59-year-old man with perforating granuloma annulare.
  • (4) It was only at the end of his life that he wrote poems undisguisedly about those he loved, his partner and his children, and they too take the form of anecdotes, transfigured by feeling and an exact instinct for how feeling may be expressed.
  • (5) In the Gospels, the metamorphosis caused by the epileptic seizure is used as a simile for Christ's transfiguration through suffering, death, and resurrection.
  • (6) But finally, it is Sandy who, before she becomes Sister Helena of the Transfiguration, exacts the decisive revenge that will doom her teacher to a bitter and solitary spinsterhood.
  • (7) Differentiation sequences and further transfiguration of glycogen-rich cells during placenta development were investigated for the rat and field vole Microtus subarvalis (11-20 day gestation).
  • (8) In The Cenotaph To Reynolds' Memory, Coleorton, he was surely mourning more than Sir Joshua (by this time Maria herself was dead) but, however complex, Constable's grief is transfiguring.
  • (9) His work reveals uncanny, almost unnatural powers of visual transfiguration, as waterlogged lecture halls transform themselves into the canals of Venice, piles of old books meld into the New York city skyline, an old tumble dryer becomes a spacecraft's docking bay.
  • (10) We cannot emphasize the structural solutions and leave intact the racial sightline that led to Michael Brown’s transfiguration into a “demon”.
  • (11) Raphael's last painting reveals, in the upper half of the picture, Christ's transfiguration on Mount Tabor and, in the lower half, the young boy's epileptic seizure at the foot of the mountain in the presence of the other disciples.
  • (12) With regard to this last subject, other problems appear as the problem on bereavement, mourning and anaclisis or the transfiguration of the lost object by means of the apprehension of its sense.
  • (13) The pop-up owes a little to the idea, very big in leftwing circles in the 90s, of the "temporary autonomous zone", where for a moment or a week or a month, space would be transfigured and people would live different lives to the usual run of work-leisure-work.
  • (14) In this morphometric study, light microscopy wa used to analyze the larval maturation and metamorphic transfiguration of the adductor jaw muscles in the leopard frog (Rana pipiens).
  • (15) Sad!” A top Trump surrogate, Paul Manafort, told Republican officials last week that Trump was about to transfigure his persona and that “the part he’s been playing is evolving”.
  • (16) Element-by-element treatment used for quantitative transfiguration of images allowed to reveal the concerned details of the eye fundus images.
  • (17) These stereoscopical observations of age-related transfiguration of testicular microvasculature were ascertained also by histometrical examinations.
  • (18) His stage presence is quite without amplitude; and his face, except when, temporarily, make-up transfigures it, is a signless zero."