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Bloom vs Loom - What's the difference?

bloom | loom |

As nouns the difference between bloom and loom

is that bloom is while loom is a utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general or loom can be (dated) loon (bird of order gaviformes ).

As a verb loom is

to impend; to threaten or hang over.

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.
    Related terms
    * bloomery * blooming ----

    loom

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lome, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
  • A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
  • * Rambler
    • Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
  • That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock
    • Derived terms
    * hand loom * power loom

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) loon (bird of order Gaviformes )

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to impend; to threaten or hang over.
    • The clouds loomed over the mountains.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=August 7 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Man City 2 - 3 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With no extra-time to be played and penalties looming , the Portuguese winger pounced on some hesitant City defending to run on to a Wayne Rooney clearance, round Joe Hart and slot home.}}
  • To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
  • * J. M. Mason
    • On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context.

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