Bloom vs. Heyday — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bloom and Heyday
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Definitions
Bloom
A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty
An exotic bloom
Heyday
The period of greatest popularity, success, or power; prime.
Bloom
A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
The bloom on a plum
Heyday
A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.
Bloom
A full, bright sound in a recording
The remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings
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Heyday
(archaic) An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic.
Bloom
A mass of iron, steel, or other metal hammered or rolled into a thick bar for further working
An 18-foot-long steel bloom emerges red-hot from a new reheat furnace
Heyday
A lively greeting.
Bloom
Produce flowers; be in flower
A chalk pit where cowslips bloomed
Heyday
(obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
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Bloom
Coat (a lens) with a special surface layer so as to reduce reflection from its surface.
Heyday
An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
Bloom
Make (iron, steel, etc.) into a bloom.
Heyday
The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.
The heyday in the blood is tame.
In the heyday of their victories.
Bloom
The flower of a plant.
Heyday
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Bloom
Something resembling the flower of a plant
"Her hair was caught all to one side in a great bloom of frizz" (Anne Tyler).
Bloom
The condition of being in flower
A rose in full bloom.
Bloom
A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime
"the radiant bloom of Greek genius" (Edith Hamilton).
Bloom
A fresh, rosy complexion
"She was short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom" (Jane Austen).
Bloom
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.
Bloom
A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.
Bloom
Grayish blotches or streaks on the surface of chocolate produced by the formation of cocoa butter crystals.
Bloom
(Chemistry) See efflorescence.
Bloom
Glare that is caused by a shiny object reflecting too much light into a camera.
Bloom
A colored area on the surface of a body of water caused by large numbers of phytoplankton, especially cyanobacteria.
Bloom
A bar of steel prepared for rolling.
Bloom
A mass of wrought iron ready for further working.
Bloom
To bear a flower or flowers.
Bloom
To support plant life in abundance
Rains that made the yard bloom.
Bloom
To glow; be radiant
"Our summer-gray potbellied stove bloomed rosy red during winter" (Maya Angelou).
Bloom
To mature or flourish with youth and vigor
Genius blooming under a great teacher.
Bloom
To appear or come into being suddenly
"Her pale shoulders bloomed from the green flounces" (Erin McGraw).
Bloom
To cause to flourish.
Bloom
(Obsolete) To cause to flower.
Bloom
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
Bloom
(collective) Flowers.
Bloom
(uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
The cherry trees are in bloom.
Bloom
(figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
The bloom of youth
Bloom
Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
Bloom
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
Bloom
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
Bloom
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
Bloom
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Bloom
(mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
The rose-red cobalt bloom
Bloom
(culinary) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
Bloom
(television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
Bloom
(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
Bloom
The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Bloom
(transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Bloom
(transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
Bloom
(intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
Bloom
Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
Bloom
(cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
Bloom
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
The rich blooms of the tropics.
Bloom
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
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.
Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
Bloom
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.
A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.
Bloom
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
Bloom
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Bloom
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
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.
Bloom
To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
A flower which onceIn Paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom.
Bloom
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.
A better country blooms to view,
Bloom
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Charitable affection bloomed them.
Bloom
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
Bloom
The organic process of bearing flowers;
You will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed
Bloom
Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
Bloom
The best time of youth
Bloom
A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Bloom
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Bloom
A powdery deposit on a surface
Bloom
Produce or yield flowers;
The cherry tree bloomed
