Bloom vs Vespertine - What's the difference?
bloom | vespertine |
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:
(poetic) Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.
* 1837 , William Evans Burton (editor), Philadelphia in the Dog Days: An Incoherency'', ''Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review , Volume 1: July—December,
* 1999 , , Walter Borenstein (translator), The Tribune of the People ,
* 2000 , ,
* 2004 , Catherine E. Rigby, Topographies Of The Sacred: The Poetics Of Place In European Romanticism ,
* 2011', John Lars Zwerenz, '''''Vespertine Fire'', ''Selected Poems ,
(astrology, of a planet or star) That sets after the sun.
* 1822 , , 2002,
* 2004 , , Anthony Louis LaBruzza (translator), Astrologia Gallica , Book 18,
(zoology, of an animal) That is principally active at dusk.
* 1949 , John Thomas Howell, Marin Flora ,
* 2011 , James D. Nichols, Camera Traps in Animal Ecology: Methods and Analyses ,
(botany) Occurring in the evening.
* 1993 , Verne Grant,
(botany, of a plant) That opens or blooms in the evening.
* 1818 , Thomas Nuttall, The Genera of North American Plants, and a Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817 , Volume 1,
* 1883 , William Robinson, The English Flower Garden , 2011,
* 2008 , Pat Mora, House of Houses ,
As a noun bloom
is a blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud or bloom can be the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.As a verb bloom
is to cause to blossom; to make flourish.As an adjective vespertine is
(poetic) of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.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.
vespertine
English
Adjective
(-)page 131,
- The peripatetics issue forth to indulge in the usual vespertine locomotion; and stroll gently down the aristocratic Chesnut and up the sedate and solid-seeming Mulberry, or vice versa.
page 124,
- Sovereign, majestic peace, joined to the spiritual isolation of the vespertine hour, rose up from those diaphanous, remote distances into the pure sky, where light little clouds, very much like bundles of cotton, scattered sparsely here and there, were tinged with gold.
page 34,
- 'I should be honoured, Ned. Truly honoured. Will you let me go upstairs and change into something a little more vespertine ?' He pointed mournfully at his speech day garb.
page 217,
- Although in the published version of 1815, this sylvan scene of vespertine quietude does not refer to anywhere in particular, the poem was originally written in response to a specific place: on 6 September 1780 Goethe penciled it onto the wooden wall of a hunting hut on a forested hilltop, the Kickelhahn, near Ilmenau.
page 34,
- As our ineffable ardor just begins, / All becomes fiery flames of desire; / Oh, welcome the dusk—and its vespertine fire!
page 44,
- But, owing to the vespertine configuration of Jupiter and Mars, as well as the masculine condition of the anterior parts of the triplicity, and the feminine condition of its latter parts, the said nations regard women with scorn and indifference.
page 56,
- Finally, he[Ptolemy] says that the vespertine' or second stations of the planets, especially those posited in the I.C. [4th House], and in the case of Mercury and Venus, when they are ' vespertine in day charts but matutine in night charts, signify temperaments that are ingenious, capable of hard work, and able to discern arcane matters, such as are seen in the nativities of magicians, prestidigitators, dream interpreters, and so on.
page 103,
- In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.
page 59,
- In research involving American black bears Ursus americanus , Bridges et al. (2004b) recorded activity patterns at bait sites in Virginia and found bear activity was generally vespertine but exhibited seasonal differences with bears becoming more nocturnal in the fall, possibly in response to hunting seasons and possible pursuit by bear-hounds.
Origin of floral isolation between ornithophilous and sphingophilous plant species, PNAS,
- Similarly, the flowers of the sphingophilous taxa correspond to the characteristics and habits of western American hawkmoths in many ways: in ... vespertine and nocturnal nectar production
page 29,
- Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pinnatifid, asperate; flowers large, terminal and solitary, vespertine , (or expanding towards sun-set,) not deciduous or marcescent after closing, but re-opening at the usual time for several days in succession, when closed involute in a cone;.
page 184,
- It[Mentzelia ornata ] belongs to the vespertine section, or those in which the flowers fully expand only towards evening.
page 9,
- I read of vespertine flowers, night bloomers like four o'clocks, opening like mouths in evening prayer.