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Blooming vs Flaring - What's the difference?

blooming | flaring |

As verbs the difference between blooming and flaring

is that blooming is while flaring is .

As nouns the difference between blooming and flaring

is that blooming is the act by which something blooms while flaring is the act of something that flares.

As an adjective blooming

is opening in blossoms; flowering.

As an adverb blooming

is bloody; bleeding; extremely.

blooming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  • Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
  • (British, euphemistic) bloody (in its vulgar senses ).

    • Synonyms

    * (opening in blossoms ): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower * (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour ): blossoming, flourishing, thriving * (euphemism for "bloody" ): bally (British), blasted, blinking

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Bloody; bleeding; extremely.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}

    Noun

  • The act by which something blooms.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 23, author=Jeremy Pearce, title=Anne McLaren, 80, Expert on the Embryo, Is Dead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Such bloomings , Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.” }}
  • (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  • (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

    • Related terms

    * antiblooming * bloomery — forge

    flaring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that flares.
  • * (Washington Irving)

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