Sloom vs Bloom - What's the difference?
sloom | bloom |
(Scotland, obsolete) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
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* Jane Ermina Locke, "Elia", in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal , James Munroe and Company (1854),
* 1900 , Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane , Dodd, Mead and Company,
* 1936 , Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude , The Fortune Press, page 66:
* 2001 , Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water ,
(of plants or soil) To soften or rot with damp.
* unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine'' 1807, reprinted in ''The Farmer’s Register , Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30),
* 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine , Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers),
* Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland , W. Blackwood & Sons (1855),
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* Dictionary of the Scots Language, “ 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:
As nouns the difference between sloom and bloom
is that sloom is a gentle sleep; slumber while bloom is .As a verb sloom
is (scotland|obsolete) to sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.sloom
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare slumber and (etyl) sloom.Alternative forms
*Derived terms
* sloomyEtymology 2
From (etyl) slumen, slummen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Verb
(en verb)page 193:
- To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming !
page 181:
- Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.
- The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.
][http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Water-Gemma-OConnor/dp/0515135976Berkley Publishing Group (2003), ISBN 978-0-515-13597-8, page 205:
- He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
page 540:
- He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed;
page 329:
- no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
page 17:
- It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming ” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield;
References
* Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language (1867) [http://books.google.com/books?id=EXgKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA494&dq=slooming+, +slooms+, +sloomed+, +sloom&as_brr=3&ei=pu5uS5uFOIyaMqCFsI8P&cd=10sloom”
Anagrams
* * ----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.