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noun bluːmblum 1A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty. （尤指供观赏的）花 一朵异国情调的花。 Example sentencesExamples - The white, pink, red and bi-colored blooms are showy against the dense evergreen shrubs.
- For reliable, early blooms in large quantity, many of these early flowering shrubs are as colorful as they are fragrant.
- Remove from direct sun when flowering to prolong the life of the blooms.
- Pansies at Reliant will be pampered with soil and spray fertilizers to promote strong blooms.
- Remove seed pods, and remove spent blooms during the flowering season to encourage more color.
- Then in March the most vivid of blues, the gentian, waves its tiny blooms in my rock garden.
- Perennials continue to grow and produce blooms for many years to come without reseeding or replanting.
- Who knows, maybe the reason Cherie would fret over flowers is because the blooms didn't match her wallpaper.
- Many plants continue to produce new flowers if you remove the spent blooms before they set seeds.
- Orchids are the second most popular flower and single blooms can be incorporated into a card to make a lovely presentation.
- Now that it has begun flowering, the blooms are dropping as soon as they open.
- ‘Much of the drama and beauty of exotic blooms is in their unusual, long stems,’ she notes.
- Since yesterday more flowers had blooms, and now there were patches of white amongst the grass, and many more different flowers by the brook.
- Curved, narrow flower beds are best, because hummers can access the blooms from all sides of the plants.
- In the western world these plants are well known as a source of garden flowers and florists' blooms.
- Plain glass vases are still a florist's mainstay, and are perfect for those who prefer the focus to stay firmly on the beauty of the blooms.
- Daylilies can grow slowly, especially if the plants carry exotic blooms.
- Though summer may boast more blooms, the flower bulbs of spring hold a special place in our affections.
- The flowers got stuck in the doors - before I could re-open them he pulled out the flowers minus the blooms.
- You'll need short handled pruners to cut off spent flower blooms, trim vines that have grown into walkways and shape shrubs.
Synonyms flower, blossom, floweret flowering, blossoming, florescence, efflorescence - 1.1mass noun The state or period of flowering.
开花，开花期 the apple trees were in bloom 苹果树正在开花。 Example sentencesExamples - Trees were not in bloom in early to mid-February and were in full bloom by early to mid-March.
- When the fruit tree is in bloom, they can perhaps subsist by picking the fruit off the tree; but suppose there is a blight, one year, on fruit trees?
- The couple will also have the opportunity to meet with Chinese leaders who played a role in restoring bilateral ties and view flowering cherry trees in bloom in Beijing.
- This can be traumatic for the rosarian, especially if your plant is already in bloom or has lots of buds.
- The middle of the miniature is dominated by a large treetrunk in front of which a rosebush is in bloom.
- There were some flowering plants in bloom to be had but most of them were sad things, showing signs of weather damage.
- Visit a private or public garden to see lilies in bloom and help you decide which ones you like.
- Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
- Since chrysanthemums are among the most widely sold perennials, they are easy to find in bloom almost anywhere this month.
- Annuals can be an antidote to areas of the garden that are boring as seedlings planted can be in bloom within a few days or weeks and will last between two months to a year depending on the type.
- Please understand that when I say it was the first time, I mean it was the first time I had ever smelled the flowering plant in full bloom.
- They had been in bloom for a while now, but she loved her flowers all year round.
- The countryside was bleak in the winter and glorious in the summer - the gardens were beautiful with the rose bushes in bloom and mowed lawns.
- To see these and other roses in bloom, visit municipal rose gardens or nurseries.
- With the right plants and a little luck, you may be able to see Lilacs in bloom in your yard for up to six weeks.
- It's best to buy plants already in bloom to make sure you're getting the right variety.
- Cherry blossoms were in full bloom while orchards started producing the fine small red fruits.
- The variegation is a nice feature in a shady garden, especially when nothing is in bloom.
- Depending upon your climate and the species, you can have nerine in bloom from August to January.
- Recording which plants are in bloom when pesticide applications are made can be very valuable in future years.
- 1.2mass noun The state or period of greatest beauty, freshness, or vigour.
最美（或最富于青春活力）的状态（或时期），花季，全盛期 I am no longer in the bloom of youth 仍处于青春花季的少女。 Example sentencesExamples - Travis openly wonders why, of all her sisters, she survived the seeming tragedy of being shut out of show business while still in the bloom of youth.
- It is not entirely accurate to claim English players are generally held back instead of being given their chance in the full bloom of youthful innocence.
- Gone are the chiseled cheekbones, dusted lightly with the first bloom of youth.
- We are no longer in that bloom of youth where we considered ourselves to be 10 feet tall and bullet proof!
- There are so many beautiful women in Thailand, and now since I am well past 40 I am no longer in the bloom of youth.
- Egg uses the same viewpoint to depict two girls in the bloom of youth, sitting in a railway carriage before a coastal landscape.
- Some ran the course and others who are no longer in the bloom of youth cycled the miles just to prove a point.
Synonyms prime, perfection, acme, zenith, peak, height, heyday, flourishing, strength, vigour salad days - 1.3in singular A youthful or healthy glow in a person's complexion.
青春容光，健康的容颜 her face had lost its usual bloom 她的脸失去了常有的光彩。 Example sentencesExamples - Nothing could be more delicate than the blond complexion - its bloom set off by the powdered hair.
- The fresh air put a bloom in her cheeks, and Ram thought he had never seen her so radiant.
- The old face, calm and pleasant as ever; the complexion, quite juvenile in its bloom and clearness.
- I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near, and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure.
- She prided herself in a more particular manner on the lovely bloom and charming delicacy of her complexion, which had procured her the envy of one sex, and the admiration of the other.
Synonyms lustre, sheen, glow, radiance, freshness, perfection blush, flush, rosiness, pinkness, redness, ruddiness, colour
2A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems. （新鲜水果、叶子或茎表面上的）粉衣，粉霜 Example sentencesExamples - Similarly, recent research by colleagues at Cornell has shown that berries are highly susceptible from bloom until shortly after fruit set, but become much more resistant afterwards.
- The bloom, however, begins to regenerate within a few days, but it does not attain its original prominence.
- This waxy layer forms the grape's typically whitish surface, called the bloom.
- To determine the level of bloom occurrence, the bloom was removed from the fruit surface by cellophane tape, and then affixed to a black acryl-board.
- Paraffin wax is purposely added to a mixture to create a surface bloom which acts as a barrier to sun-checking and oxidation.
- 2.1mass noun A greyish-white appearance on chocolate caused by cocoa butter rising to the surface.
（巧克力的）起霜 Example sentencesExamples - Bloom has nothing to do with the age of the chocolate.
- Hartel's research team has come up with a theory to explain how visual fat bloom develops in well-tempered chocolates.
- Fortunately, bloom does not affect the flavour or melting properties of chocolate and disappears once the chocolate is melted.
- Chocolate bloom is the tell-tale sign that chocolate has not been stored correctly.
- A new multi-mineral ingredient can improve fat bloom resistance in chocolate, while boosting the mineral content of the products, according to the manufacturer.
- 2.2
short for algal bloom Example sentencesExamples - Plankton blooms usually follow coastal upwellings because of the abundant nutrients that come with it.
- Upwelling of cold oceanic nutrient-rich waters in many shelves leads to extensive plankton blooms.
- And it is well known that when algae proliferate, their toxic blooms can wipe out a region's aquaculture or close down its seafood restaurants.
- The nutrients trigger blooms of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton.
- Future cruises through eddies in the region may determine the factors that stimulate the plankton blooms.
3mass noun A full, bright sound in a recording. （尤指音乐录音中）饱满响亮的声音 the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings 重新制作的母盘丧失了弦乐器的活力感。 Example sentencesExamples - The brightest bloom in the bouquet of sound bites was ‘failure does not equate to a crime.’
verb bluːmblum 1no object Produce flowers; be in flower. 开花；在开花，处于花期 a chalk pit where cowslips bloomed 开着野樱草花的白垩矿场。 Example sentencesExamples - What if I kept postponing the outing until one day the boys didn't want to pick buttercups, or what if the flowers stopped blooming?
- Laura told us later that every week 15 different species of flowers start blooming on the prairie preserve.
- This legendary flower blooms once in 12 years and is due to enliven the mountainscapes, once again in the coming year.
- Sakura is a flower which blooms in Kyoto during this part of the year and that is why I have titled my exhibition accordingly.
- Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ is still blooming, the first flowers opened in July.
- You can't force a flower to bloom by ripping the petals open.
- Mom always used to do all the planting a week before her birthday so she could see the flowers blooming on her special day.
- The rise in temperature has certainly put nature in a tizzy and there are many reports, not just of birds hatching, but of trees, and shrubs budding and flowers blooming.
- Nong Nooch Gardens recently announced that the flower was blooming only after 5 five years and opened the gardens for a special viewing by residents.
- There are flowers on the logo and flowers blooming in their corporate ad.
- There is this little flower, which blooms when others die
- In the beautiful spring with flowers blooming, we set off for Yangzhou.
- These islands that were once dumping yards now wear a pleasant look with flowers blooming all over.
- It will no longer be ‘spooky’ if it is a spacious area of grass, flat or hilly, with flowers blooming everywhere and trees regularly planted in rows to mark out the blocks of graves.
- They came out with paintings that showed flowers blooming in spring, the water bodies after rain, the colourful world of tribal people, trees laden with mangoes and the mystique of starry nights.
- Spring has come to Shanghai and we can again see flowers blooming and trees budding.
- ‘It was a lovely day, with flowers blooming, but it just happened to be very close to an airfield,’ says Anderson.
- The view of the chambers was a village house that stood nearby, surrounded by, in spring, trees and flowers blooming in the orchard, which must have had a calming effect on the prisoners.
- Collect seeds from any flower that has a visible seed pod, which becomes obvious as the flowers stop blooming and go dormant in summer or fall.
- No matter how much you may think the world revolves around you your deaths will not stop it spinning, will not stop flowers from blooming or the sun from rising in the morning.
Synonyms blossom, flower, be in blossom/flower, come into flower/blossom, open, open out, bud, sprout, burgeon, mature - 1.1 Come into or be in full beauty or health; flourish.
风姿绰约，容光焕发；繁荣，兴旺 the children had bloomed in the soft Devonshire air 孩子们是在德文郡和煦的空气中长大的。 Example sentencesExamples - Night bloomed in the sky eating all signs of light away with hunger.
- That range of rewarding possibilities can be further assisted in blooming to its full glory if comparisons with other transport modes can be made too.
- Thames never was a top-flight prospect but bloomed late.
- His pupils, usually slits in the dome light of the van, have bloomed into full circles.
- She didn't really take notice yesterday, but this morning, in the light of the early sun, the whole city bloomed in its full glory.
- Calandra was 14 and blooming with beauty that my mother alone was known to possess.
- It is one of the reasons that experimental relativity took nearly a century to bloom and flourish.
- And a career which was all set to bloom goes deflated in a second.
- I have never loathed fish so much I thought as the strong disliking bloomed into full fledged hate.
- As my health bloomed, I also saw many positive changes in my family's health as they gradually embraced this way of eating.
- As the credits played on, a little glow of joy sparked and bloomed into light.
- His hallucinatory illustrations for the mystic had a direct impact on the psychedelic art that bloomed a few years later.
- Around her, women and animals bloom, trees and flowers blossom, and her womb fills up with stones.
- I showed up on one of those rare spring afternoons in New York when everything is blooming, and the colors, sights, and sounds intoxicating.
- Workable budgets meant the service bloomed by the early '70s.
- How to hold onto belief that colour and voice will bloom in this place?
- Amid these life-retrospective ponderings blooms a story of young love and lust.
- His soft pink lips bloomed into a sickening smile which drove everyone, well, the girls anyway, crazy.
- The 60-minute second half is quicker in every way, and not only in the madcap chase through the audience, and the performances bloom and prosper.
- Love can grow and bloom well if it is blessed with full and strong trust.
Synonyms flourish, thrive, be in good health, get on well, get ahead, prosper, succeed, be successful, progress, make progress, make headway, burgeon informal be in the pink, be fine and dandy, go great guns - 1.2 (of fire, colour, or light) become radiant and glowing.
（火，色彩，光）发亮，发光 colour bloomed in her cheeks 她的面颊透出光泽。 Example sentencesExamples - A glow of brilliant white light bloomed from the tips of his fingers.
- From the bosom of the light burst a jet of white fire, climbing, blooming in the night.
- Cresting the hill was a gaunt shadowy figure erect and gazing upwards with a longing countenance for the moon, which bloomed full in the sky, gazing almost as a wild creature would.
- Fire bloomed and ate voraciously into the enemy ranks, sending screaming soldiers gushing fire like Gondoan candles fleeing blindly from the carnage, yet still they boiled from the passes.
- Light bloomed along the weal left by the ice-lash, then scattered, the long mark untouched.
- It would be some time before it bloomed and lit up the cliffs with its yellow-flowered prodigality again.
- Colour bloomed in Kitten's cheeks and hands, a healthy pink that suddenly made her look like a normal child.
- Her cheeks bloomed in the light of the candles, and she nodded her head towards the girl behind her.
- Flowers grew in colorful disarray along the sides, and the late trees bloomed with light, colder looking colors.
- A fire bloomed within and Amy dove in after the dear yearling.
- I was sure my cheeks bloomed with colour almost immediately and I felt the blood rush up to my head, making my neck burn.
- Some full moon must have been blooming somewhere, because all of the nuts had been hatched out of the cages just to join me on my morning commute.
- Still the sky was claimed by the night, but already a bit of sunlight was blooming past the eastern horizon.
- I stood there, agape, as a ball of light bloomed in Diana's chest and gradually enveloped her.
- Colour bloomed in Nicole's cheeks and her brow creased slightly in worry.
- Aidis whispered a quick spell, and fire bloomed around his hands.
- A golden light bloomed from her hand and slowly the mortal wound healed.
- That simple action sent thrilling chills racing down Charlotte's back as a soft blush bloomed in her cheeks, making her shiver, whether from fright or excitement she did not know.
- He threw something into the air, and light bloomed.
- Amethyst flame bloomed, engulfing the ship in crackling light.
2technical with object Coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface. 〈技〉给（透镜）敷膜 Example sentencesExamples - Reflections of white light from a bloomed lens then appear to be faint purple.
- Camera effects like blooming, lens flare, heat shimmer, light rays, depth of field, and haze create TV-quality presentation.
- The key features of the camera are highlighted: a bloomed lens and a high speed focal plane shutter in an easy to use and inexpensive camera.
Phrasesthe bloom is off the rose The thing in question is no longer new, fresh, or exciting. 〈北美〉明日黄花；已失去新颖感；已不再引人注目 I think the bloom is off the rose now with kiss-and-tell books Example sentencesExamples - For his Vancouver project, the bloom is off the rose.
- ‘Those working in the market are convinced that hundreds of people have made big money buying and selling land. However, the bloom is off the rose.’
- On page 36, for example, he may flatly assert that ‘a dismal new era of higher education has dawned’; but just twenty-four pages later, we learn that ‘the tide had turned’ and the ‘the bloom is off the rose.’
- Today, the bloom is off the rose of the ‘New Economy.’
- Ultimately, now that the bloom is off the rose, his reddish-greenish affinities may not be as far from a robust version of the social-democratic perspective as he would comfortably acknowledge.
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse blóm 'flower, blossom', blómi 'prosperity', blómar 'flowers'. The early word for ‘flower’ in English was blossom. Old Norse blóm ‘flower, blossom’, was the source of bloom in English, which shares a base with the verb blow (Old English) ‘to burst into flower’, now most often met in overblown (early 17th century). A bloomer (late 19th century) is from the use of blooming for ‘bloody’ in blooming error and is thought to be Australian prison slang. In the 1930s another bloomer entered the vocabulary as a name for a type of loaf but it is not clear where from.
Rhymesabloom, assume, backroom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom noun bluːmblum 1A mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working. （铁、钢或其他金属的）初轧方坯，大方坯 an 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace Example sentencesExamples - The pillar is believed to have been made by forging together a series of disc-shaped iron blooms.
- Once the iron had cooled and set, a file was drawn over the surface to gauge the hardness of the iron bloom to see if it had any steel in it - the file being of a known quality itself.
- The bloom contained iron slag and particles of charcoal entrapped in the metal.
- This also makes it possible, for example, when blooms are transversely cut, to reduce the travel segment of the cutting nozzle along the length of the bloom down to the width of the bloom in question.
- 1.1historical An unworked mass of puddled iron.
〈史〉搅炼熟铁 Example sentencesExamples - For production, the ore was smelted, then the resultant iron bloom was hammered, stretched, and annealed to remove impurities.
- The bloom was repeatedly re-heated and hammered to remove most of the molten slag.
- To recreate the ancient way of making wrought iron, two Swedish blacksmiths have smelted a bloom of iron and begin to shape it into a bar.
- The iron produced in this way was normally in the form of a very slaggy bloom, with a carbon content in the range 1-3 per cent.
- The bloom, still at bright red heat, was then passed through rolling mills, becoming more elongated and thinner in section after each pass, and finished as puddled iron bar.
verb bluːmblum [with object]usually as noun bloomingMake (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom. Example sentencesExamples - A steel slab comprising the above constituents is produced by preparing the steel in a converter followed by either continuous casting or ingot making/blooming.
- The howl of blooming steel washed over us.
- In a blooming mill, a continuous-cast bloom is rolled into billets, reheated, and thereafter rolled and formed into various products in a steel bar mill or wire rod mill.
- Each of the ingots was subjected to blooming into 155 mm square steel strips, and the resultant steel strips were subjected to wire rod milling.
OriginOld English blōma, of unknown origin. nounblo͞omblum 1A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty. （尤指供观赏的）花 一朵异国情调的花。 the hydrangea has a wealth of bloom Example sentencesExamples - Perennials continue to grow and produce blooms for many years to come without reseeding or replanting.
- Though summer may boast more blooms, the flower bulbs of spring hold a special place in our affections.
- Plain glass vases are still a florist's mainstay, and are perfect for those who prefer the focus to stay firmly on the beauty of the blooms.
- Since yesterday more flowers had blooms, and now there were patches of white amongst the grass, and many more different flowers by the brook.
- In the western world these plants are well known as a source of garden flowers and florists' blooms.
- For reliable, early blooms in large quantity, many of these early flowering shrubs are as colorful as they are fragrant.
- The white, pink, red and bi-colored blooms are showy against the dense evergreen shrubs.
- ‘Much of the drama and beauty of exotic blooms is in their unusual, long stems,’ she notes.
- Orchids are the second most popular flower and single blooms can be incorporated into a card to make a lovely presentation.
- Pansies at Reliant will be pampered with soil and spray fertilizers to promote strong blooms.
- Remove from direct sun when flowering to prolong the life of the blooms.
- Then in March the most vivid of blues, the gentian, waves its tiny blooms in my rock garden.
- Remove seed pods, and remove spent blooms during the flowering season to encourage more color.
- Many plants continue to produce new flowers if you remove the spent blooms before they set seeds.
- The flowers got stuck in the doors - before I could re-open them he pulled out the flowers minus the blooms.
- You'll need short handled pruners to cut off spent flower blooms, trim vines that have grown into walkways and shape shrubs.
- Daylilies can grow slowly, especially if the plants carry exotic blooms.
- Who knows, maybe the reason Cherie would fret over flowers is because the blooms didn't match her wallpaper.
- Curved, narrow flower beds are best, because hummers can access the blooms from all sides of the plants.
- Now that it has begun flowering, the blooms are dropping as soon as they open.
Synonyms flower, blossom, floweret - 1.1 The state or period of flowering.
开花，开花期 the apple trees were in bloom 苹果树正在开花。 Example sentencesExamples - Depending upon your climate and the species, you can have nerine in bloom from August to January.
- With the right plants and a little luck, you may be able to see Lilacs in bloom in your yard for up to six weeks.
- Please understand that when I say it was the first time, I mean it was the first time I had ever smelled the flowering plant in full bloom.
- Visit a private or public garden to see lilies in bloom and help you decide which ones you like.
- When the fruit tree is in bloom, they can perhaps subsist by picking the fruit off the tree; but suppose there is a blight, one year, on fruit trees?
- The variegation is a nice feature in a shady garden, especially when nothing is in bloom.
- The middle of the miniature is dominated by a large treetrunk in front of which a rosebush is in bloom.
- They had been in bloom for a while now, but she loved her flowers all year round.
- Cherry blossoms were in full bloom while orchards started producing the fine small red fruits.
- It's best to buy plants already in bloom to make sure you're getting the right variety.
- Since chrysanthemums are among the most widely sold perennials, they are easy to find in bloom almost anywhere this month.
- There were some flowering plants in bloom to be had but most of them were sad things, showing signs of weather damage.
- Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
- The couple will also have the opportunity to meet with Chinese leaders who played a role in restoring bilateral ties and view flowering cherry trees in bloom in Beijing.
- Annuals can be an antidote to areas of the garden that are boring as seedlings planted can be in bloom within a few days or weeks and will last between two months to a year depending on the type.
- The countryside was bleak in the winter and glorious in the summer - the gardens were beautiful with the rose bushes in bloom and mowed lawns.
- This can be traumatic for the rosarian, especially if your plant is already in bloom or has lots of buds.
- To see these and other roses in bloom, visit municipal rose gardens or nurseries.
- Trees were not in bloom in early to mid-February and were in full bloom by early to mid-March.
- Recording which plants are in bloom when pesticide applications are made can be very valuable in future years.
- 1.2 The state or period of greatest beauty, freshness, or vigor.
最美（或最富于青春活力）的状态（或时期），花季，全盛期 I am no longer in the bloom of youth 仍处于青春花季的少女。 Example sentencesExamples - There are so many beautiful women in Thailand, and now since I am well past 40 I am no longer in the bloom of youth.
- We are no longer in that bloom of youth where we considered ourselves to be 10 feet tall and bullet proof!
- Egg uses the same viewpoint to depict two girls in the bloom of youth, sitting in a railway carriage before a coastal landscape.
- Travis openly wonders why, of all her sisters, she survived the seeming tragedy of being shut out of show business while still in the bloom of youth.
- Gone are the chiseled cheekbones, dusted lightly with the first bloom of youth.
- Some ran the course and others who are no longer in the bloom of youth cycled the miles just to prove a point.
- It is not entirely accurate to claim English players are generally held back instead of being given their chance in the full bloom of youthful innocence.
Synonyms prime, perfection, acme, zenith, peak, height, heyday, flourishing, strength, vigour - 1.3 A youthful or healthy glow in a person's complexion.
青春容光，健康的容颜 her face had lost its usual bloom 她的脸失去了常有的光彩。 Example sentencesExamples - She prided herself in a more particular manner on the lovely bloom and charming delicacy of her complexion, which had procured her the envy of one sex, and the admiration of the other.
- The old face, calm and pleasant as ever; the complexion, quite juvenile in its bloom and clearness.
- Nothing could be more delicate than the blond complexion - its bloom set off by the powdered hair.
- I found plenty of entertainment in listening to the larks singing far and near, and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure.
- The fresh air put a bloom in her cheeks, and Ram thought he had never seen her so radiant.
Synonyms lustre, sheen, glow, radiance, freshness, perfection
2A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems. （新鲜水果、叶子或茎表面上的）粉衣，粉霜 Example sentencesExamples - To determine the level of bloom occurrence, the bloom was removed from the fruit surface by cellophane tape, and then affixed to a black acryl-board.
- This waxy layer forms the grape's typically whitish surface, called the bloom.
- Similarly, recent research by colleagues at Cornell has shown that berries are highly susceptible from bloom until shortly after fruit set, but become much more resistant afterwards.
- Paraffin wax is purposely added to a mixture to create a surface bloom which acts as a barrier to sun-checking and oxidation.
- The bloom, however, begins to regenerate within a few days, but it does not attain its original prominence.
- 2.1 A grayish-white appearance on chocolate caused by cocoa butter rising to the surface.
（巧克力的）起霜 Example sentencesExamples - A new multi-mineral ingredient can improve fat bloom resistance in chocolate, while boosting the mineral content of the products, according to the manufacturer.
- Fortunately, bloom does not affect the flavour or melting properties of chocolate and disappears once the chocolate is melted.
- Bloom has nothing to do with the age of the chocolate.
- Chocolate bloom is the tell-tale sign that chocolate has not been stored correctly.
- Hartel's research team has come up with a theory to explain how visual fat bloom develops in well-tempered chocolates.
- 2.2 A rapid growth of microscopic algae or cyanobacteria in water, often resulting in a colored scum on the surface.
Example sentencesExamples - Future cruises through eddies in the region may determine the factors that stimulate the plankton blooms.
- Upwelling of cold oceanic nutrient-rich waters in many shelves leads to extensive plankton blooms.
- The nutrients trigger blooms of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton.
- And it is well known that when algae proliferate, their toxic blooms can wipe out a region's aquaculture or close down its seafood restaurants.
- Plankton blooms usually follow coastal upwellings because of the abundant nutrients that come with it.
3A full bright sound, especially in a musical recording. （尤指音乐录音中）饱满响亮的声音 the remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings 重新制作的母盘丧失了弦乐器的活力感。 Example sentencesExamples - The brightest bloom in the bouquet of sound bites was ‘failure does not equate to a crime.’
verbblo͞omblum [no object]1Produce flowers; be in flower. 开花；在开花，处于花期 a rose tree bloomed on a ruined wall Example sentencesExamples - The rise in temperature has certainly put nature in a tizzy and there are many reports, not just of birds hatching, but of trees, and shrubs budding and flowers blooming.
- No matter how much you may think the world revolves around you your deaths will not stop it spinning, will not stop flowers from blooming or the sun from rising in the morning.
- The view of the chambers was a village house that stood nearby, surrounded by, in spring, trees and flowers blooming in the orchard, which must have had a calming effect on the prisoners.
- Sakura is a flower which blooms in Kyoto during this part of the year and that is why I have titled my exhibition accordingly.
- Collect seeds from any flower that has a visible seed pod, which becomes obvious as the flowers stop blooming and go dormant in summer or fall.
- What if I kept postponing the outing until one day the boys didn't want to pick buttercups, or what if the flowers stopped blooming?
- Mom always used to do all the planting a week before her birthday so she could see the flowers blooming on her special day.
- They came out with paintings that showed flowers blooming in spring, the water bodies after rain, the colourful world of tribal people, trees laden with mangoes and the mystique of starry nights.
- Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ is still blooming, the first flowers opened in July.
- These islands that were once dumping yards now wear a pleasant look with flowers blooming all over.
- You can't force a flower to bloom by ripping the petals open.
- There are flowers on the logo and flowers blooming in their corporate ad.
- It will no longer be ‘spooky’ if it is a spacious area of grass, flat or hilly, with flowers blooming everywhere and trees regularly planted in rows to mark out the blocks of graves.
- ‘It was a lovely day, with flowers blooming, but it just happened to be very close to an airfield,’ says Anderson.
- This legendary flower blooms once in 12 years and is due to enliven the mountainscapes, once again in the coming year.
- There is this little flower, which blooms when others die
- Laura told us later that every week 15 different species of flowers start blooming on the prairie preserve.
- Spring has come to Shanghai and we can again see flowers blooming and trees budding.
- In the beautiful spring with flowers blooming, we set off for Yangzhou.
- Nong Nooch Gardens recently announced that the flower was blooming only after 5 five years and opened the gardens for a special viewing by residents.
Synonyms blossom, flower, be in blossom, be in flower, come into blossom, come into flower, open, open out, bud, sprout, burgeon, mature - 1.1 Come into or be in full beauty or health; flourish.
风姿绰约，容光焕发；繁荣，兴旺 she bloomed as an actress under his tutelage Example sentencesExamples - Thames never was a top-flight prospect but bloomed late.
- Amid these life-retrospective ponderings blooms a story of young love and lust.
- I showed up on one of those rare spring afternoons in New York when everything is blooming, and the colors, sights, and sounds intoxicating.
- His soft pink lips bloomed into a sickening smile which drove everyone, well, the girls anyway, crazy.
- And a career which was all set to bloom goes deflated in a second.
- Workable budgets meant the service bloomed by the early '70s.
- She didn't really take notice yesterday, but this morning, in the light of the early sun, the whole city bloomed in its full glory.
- That range of rewarding possibilities can be further assisted in blooming to its full glory if comparisons with other transport modes can be made too.
- As my health bloomed, I also saw many positive changes in my family's health as they gradually embraced this way of eating.
- His pupils, usually slits in the dome light of the van, have bloomed into full circles.
- Love can grow and bloom well if it is blessed with full and strong trust.
- The 60-minute second half is quicker in every way, and not only in the madcap chase through the audience, and the performances bloom and prosper.
- Night bloomed in the sky eating all signs of light away with hunger.
- I have never loathed fish so much I thought as the strong disliking bloomed into full fledged hate.
- How to hold onto belief that colour and voice will bloom in this place?
- Calandra was 14 and blooming with beauty that my mother alone was known to possess.
- His hallucinatory illustrations for the mystic had a direct impact on the psychedelic art that bloomed a few years later.
- Around her, women and animals bloom, trees and flowers blossom, and her womb fills up with stones.
- It is one of the reasons that experimental relativity took nearly a century to bloom and flourish.
- As the credits played on, a little glow of joy sparked and bloomed into light.
Synonyms flourish, thrive, be in good health, get on well, get ahead, prosper, succeed, be successful, progress, make progress, make headway, burgeon - 1.2 (of fire, color, or light) become radiant and glowing.
（火，色彩，光）发亮，发光 color bloomed in her cheeks 她的面颊透出光泽。 Example sentencesExamples - Cresting the hill was a gaunt shadowy figure erect and gazing upwards with a longing countenance for the moon, which bloomed full in the sky, gazing almost as a wild creature would.
- I stood there, agape, as a ball of light bloomed in Diana's chest and gradually enveloped her.
- A fire bloomed within and Amy dove in after the dear yearling.
- Flowers grew in colorful disarray along the sides, and the late trees bloomed with light, colder looking colors.
- It would be some time before it bloomed and lit up the cliffs with its yellow-flowered prodigality again.
- Colour bloomed in Nicole's cheeks and her brow creased slightly in worry.
- I was sure my cheeks bloomed with colour almost immediately and I felt the blood rush up to my head, making my neck burn.
- A glow of brilliant white light bloomed from the tips of his fingers.
- Amethyst flame bloomed, engulfing the ship in crackling light.
- Still the sky was claimed by the night, but already a bit of sunlight was blooming past the eastern horizon.
- He threw something into the air, and light bloomed.
- Colour bloomed in Kitten's cheeks and hands, a healthy pink that suddenly made her look like a normal child.
- Light bloomed along the weal left by the ice-lash, then scattered, the long mark untouched.
- That simple action sent thrilling chills racing down Charlotte's back as a soft blush bloomed in her cheeks, making her shiver, whether from fright or excitement she did not know.
- From the bosom of the light burst a jet of white fire, climbing, blooming in the night.
- Her cheeks bloomed in the light of the candles, and she nodded her head towards the girl behind her.
- A golden light bloomed from her hand and slowly the mortal wound healed.
- Some full moon must have been blooming somewhere, because all of the nuts had been hatched out of the cages just to join me on my morning commute.
- Aidis whispered a quick spell, and fire bloomed around his hands.
- Fire bloomed and ate voraciously into the enemy ranks, sending screaming soldiers gushing fire like Gondoan candles fleeing blindly from the carnage, yet still they boiled from the passes.
Phrasesthe bloom is off the rose Something is no longer new, fresh, or exciting. 〈北美〉明日黄花；已失去新颖感；已不再引人注目 Example sentencesExamples - For his Vancouver project, the bloom is off the rose.
- ‘Those working in the market are convinced that hundreds of people have made big money buying and selling land. However, the bloom is off the rose.’
- Today, the bloom is off the rose of the ‘New Economy.’
- Ultimately, now that the bloom is off the rose, his reddish-greenish affinities may not be as far from a robust version of the social-democratic perspective as he would comfortably acknowledge.
- On page 36, for example, he may flatly assert that ‘a dismal new era of higher education has dawned’; but just twenty-four pages later, we learn that ‘the tide had turned’ and the ‘the bloom is off the rose.’
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse blóm ‘flower, blossom’, blómi ‘prosperity’, blómar ‘flowers’. nounblo͞omblum 1A mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working. （铁、钢或其他金属的）初轧方坯，大方坯 an 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace Example sentencesExamples - This also makes it possible, for example, when blooms are transversely cut, to reduce the travel segment of the cutting nozzle along the length of the bloom down to the width of the bloom in question.
- Once the iron had cooled and set, a file was drawn over the surface to gauge the hardness of the iron bloom to see if it had any steel in it - the file being of a known quality itself.
- The bloom contained iron slag and particles of charcoal entrapped in the metal.
- The pillar is believed to have been made by forging together a series of disc-shaped iron blooms.
- 1.1historical An unworked mass of puddled iron.
〈史〉搅炼熟铁 Example sentencesExamples - The bloom was repeatedly re-heated and hammered to remove most of the molten slag.
- The bloom, still at bright red heat, was then passed through rolling mills, becoming more elongated and thinner in section after each pass, and finished as puddled iron bar.
- For production, the ore was smelted, then the resultant iron bloom was hammered, stretched, and annealed to remove impurities.
- To recreate the ancient way of making wrought iron, two Swedish blacksmiths have smelted a bloom of iron and begin to shape it into a bar.
- The iron produced in this way was normally in the form of a very slaggy bloom, with a carbon content in the range 1-3 per cent.
verbblo͞omblum [with object]usually as noun bloomingMake (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom. Example sentencesExamples - In a blooming mill, a continuous-cast bloom is rolled into billets, reheated, and thereafter rolled and formed into various products in a steel bar mill or wire rod mill.
- Each of the ingots was subjected to blooming into 155 mm square steel strips, and the resultant steel strips were subjected to wire rod milling.
- A steel slab comprising the above constituents is produced by preparing the steel in a converter followed by either continuous casting or ingot making/blooming.
- The howl of blooming steel washed over us.
OriginOld English blōma, of unknown origin. |