Zest vs. Bloom — What's the Difference?

Flavor or piquancy

A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty

Interest or excitement

A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems

The outermost part of the rind of an orange, lemon, or other citrus fruit, used as flavoring

A full, bright sound in a recording

Spirited enjoyment; gusto

A mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working

To remove small pieces from (a rind from a citrus fruit) for use as a flavoring in cooking

Produce flowers; be in flower

The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.

Coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.

General vibrance of flavour.

Make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.

(by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

The flower of a plant.

(rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.

Something resembling the flower of a plant

(cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.

The condition of being in flower

To make more zesty.

A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime

A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.

A fresh, rosy complexion

Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

A waxy or powdery whitish to bluish coating on the surface of certain plant parts, as on cabbage leaves or on a plum or grape.

The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.

A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.

To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.

Grayish blotches or streaks on the surface of chocolate produced by the formation of cocoa butter crystals.

To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.

(Chemistry) See efflorescence.

Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

Glare that is caused by a shiny object reflecting too much light into a camera.

A tart spiciness

A colored area on the surface of a body of water caused by large numbers of phytoplankton, especially cyanobacteria.

Add herbs or spices to

A bar of steel prepared for rolling.

A mass of wrought iron ready for further working.

To bear a flower or flowers.

To support plant life in abundance

To glow; be radiant

To mature or flourish with youth and vigor

To appear or come into being suddenly

To cause to flourish.

(Obsolete) To cause to flower.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.

(collective) Flowers.

(uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.

(figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.

Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.

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.

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 bright-hued variety of some minerals.

(culinary) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.

(television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.

(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.

The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.

(transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

(transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

(intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.

Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.

(cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.

A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

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.

A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

The organic process of bearing flowers;

Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

The best time of youth

A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

A powdery deposit on a surface

Produce or yield flowers;