Bloom vs Blush - What's the difference?
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A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
* Prescott
Flowers, collectively.
(uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
* Milton
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
* Hawthorne
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
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.
(mineralogy) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
* Hooker
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
* Keats
Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
* Milton
(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
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:
An act of blushing.
(uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
A color between pink and cream.
To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
* Milton
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
To become red.
* Shakespeare
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
* Shakespeare
To express or make known by blushing.
* Shakespeare
To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
* T. Gray
The collective noun for a group of boys.
Bloom is a related term of blush.
As nouns the difference between bloom and blush
is that bloom is while blush is an act of blushing or blush can be the collective noun for a group of boys.As a verb blush is
to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.bloom
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blome, from (etyl) ). More at .Noun
(en noun)- the rich blooms of the tropics
- The cherry trees are in bloom .
- sight of vernal bloom
- the bloom of youth
- Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom , a more delicate and briefer beauty.
- a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it
- (Knight)
- the rose-red cobalt bloom
Synonyms
* (flower of a plant ): blossom, flower * (opening of flowers ): blossom, flower * (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness ): flush, glowDerived terms
* bloom is off the rose * bloomy * in bloomEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Charitable affection bloomed them.
- (Milton)
- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
- A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom .
- A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.
Synonyms
* (produce blooms) blossom, flower * (flourish) blossom, flourish, thriveDerived terms
* bloomer * late bloomerEtymology 3
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom , which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.
blush
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .Noun
(es)Derived terms
* blush is off the rose * at first blushVerb
(es)- To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
- But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
- The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
- To blush and beautify the cheek again.
- I'll blush you thanks.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Synonyms
* flushing * reddeningEtymology 2
1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.Noun
(es)- A blush of boys.