Bloom vs Efflorescence - What's the difference?
bloom | efflorescence |
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:
(chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
(botany) The production of flowers.
(construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
(geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
(metaphorical ) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
(pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Efflorescence is a synonym of bloom.
As nouns the difference between bloom and efflorescence
is that bloom is a blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud while efflorescence is the formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.As a verb bloom
is to cause to blossom; to make flourish.As a proper noun Bloom
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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.