Beauty vs. Bloom — What's the Difference?

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art.

A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty

A combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight

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

A beautiful woman

A full, bright sound in a recording

Good; excellent (used as a general term of approval).

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

A quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, authenticity, and originality.

Produce flowers; be in flower

One that is beautiful, especially a beautiful woman.

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

A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling

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

An outstanding or conspicuous example

The flower of a plant.

The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

Something resembling the flower of a plant

Someone who is beautiful.

The condition of being in flower

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime

An excellent or egregious example of something.

A fresh, rosy complexion

The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

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.

A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

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

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

(Chemistry) See efflorescence.

Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

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

(Canada) Thanks!

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

(Canada) Cool!

A bar of steel prepared for rolling.

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.

A mass of wrought iron ready for further working.

To make beautiful.

To bear a flower or flowers.

An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

To support plant life in abundance

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

To glow; be radiant

A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.

To mature or flourish with youth and vigor

Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

To appear or come into being suddenly

The qualities that give pleasure to the senses

To cause to flourish.

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

(Obsolete) To cause to flower.

An outstanding example of its kind;

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;