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As nouns the difference between blood and bloom

is that blood is while bloom is .

blood

English

(wikipedia blood)

Alternative forms

* bloud (obsolete)

Noun

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
  • a friend of our own blood
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • A blood test or blood sample.
  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • * 1841 , Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus , page 95:
  • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
  • * 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
  • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • * 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
  • Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
  • (label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • * Bible, (w) xiix. 11
  • He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • (label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
  • (label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
  • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
  • (member of a certain gang).
  • Hyponyms

    * menstruation

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bad blood , blood atonement , blood bank , bloodbath, blood bath , blood blister , blood brother , blood-curdling , blood diamond , blood donor , blood drive , blood eagle , bloodhound , blood is thicker than water , bloodless , bloodletting , bloodline , bloodlust, blood lust , bloody-minded , blood money , blood moon , blood orange , blood poisoning , blood product , blood pudding , blood relative, blood relation , blood sample , blood sausage , bloodshed , bloodshot , bloodsome , blood sport , bloodstain , blood-stained, bloodstained , bloodstream , bloodsucker , blood test , bloodthirsty , blood type , blood vessel , bloodwood , bloody , bloody mary , by blood , cold-blooded , first blood , for one's blood to boil , give blood , have blood on one's hands , have someone's blood on one's head , hot-blooded , in cold blood , make someone's blood boil , make someone's blood run cold , one's blood runs cold , 'sblood , smell blood , too rich for one's blood , warm-blooded}}

    See also

    * coagulation * sanguinary * sanguine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
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    bloom

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) blome, from (etyl) ). More at .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  • * Prescott
  • the rich blooms of the tropics
  • Flowers, collectively.
  • (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
  • The cherry trees are in bloom .
  • * Milton
  • sight of vernal bloom
  • A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
  • the bloom of youth
  • * Hawthorne
  • Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom , a more delicate and briefer beauty.
  • The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
  • Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
  • * Thackeray
  • a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it
  • The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  • A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
  • (Knight)
  • (mineralogy) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
  • the rose-red cobalt bloom
  • A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
  • Synonyms
    * (flower of a plant ): blossom, flower * (opening of flowers ): blossom, flower * (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness ): flush, glow
    Derived terms
    * bloom is off the rose * bloomy * in bloom

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
  • * Hooker
  • Charitable affection bloomed them.
  • To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
  • (Milton)
  • * Keats
  • While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
  • Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
  • * Milton
  • A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom .
  • (figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
  • * Logan
  • A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.
    Synonyms
    * (produce blooms) blossom, flower * (flourish) blossom, flourish, thrive
    Derived terms
    * bloomer * late bloomer

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 26:
  • These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom , which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.