Bloom vs Shine - What's the difference?
bloom | shine | Synonyms |
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:
To emit light.
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To distinguish oneself; to excel.
* 1867 , Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend , Harper & Brothers,
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To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
* Jonathan Swift
To be immediately apparent.
To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
* 2007 , David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller , St. Martin’s Press (2008), ISBN 978-0-312-94595-7,
To cause to shine, as a light.
* (Francis Bacon)
(US) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
Brightness from a source of light.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brightness from reflected light.
Excellence in quality or appearance.
Shoeshine.
Sunshine.
* Dryden
(slang) Moonshine.
(cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
(slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
(archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
(cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
In transitive terms the difference between bloom and shine
is that bloom is to bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant while shine is to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).In intransitive terms the difference between bloom and shine
is that bloom is of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms while shine is to be immediately apparent.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.
shine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish skinne, Swedish skina. In Middle English the most standard forms are[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED39953]: * present: sh?nen * simple past: (singular) sh?ne'', (plural) ''sh?neden * past participle: sh?ned The form sh?ned(e)'' had already appeared as an alternative past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of ''sh?ne as an alternative past participle in Middle English.Verb
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page 91:
- “ I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined' at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he ' shined still more.”
- It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
- So proud she shined in her princely state.
- Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
- Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
page 318:
- As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
- He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
- (Bartlett)
Synonyms
* (to emit light) beam, glow, radiate * (to reflect light) gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect * (to distinguish oneself) excel * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnishCoordinate terms
* (to emit light) beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkleDerived terms
* beshine * rise and shine * take a shine toNoun
(-)- the distant shine of the celestial city
- be it fair or foul, or rain or shine
- She's certainly taken a shine to you.
Synonyms
* (brightness from a source of light) effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency * (brightness from reflected light) luster * (excellence in quality or appearance) brilliance, splendor * (shoeshine) See shoeshine * (sunshine) See sunshine * See moonshineDerived terms
* come rain or shine * fireshine * shimmer * shiner * shininess * shiny * spitshineEtymology 2
From the noun (shine), or perhaps continuing (etyl) schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from (etyl) .Verb
(shin)- He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.