Bloom vs. Effloresce — What's the Difference?

A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty

To blossom; bloom.

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

To develop or flourish

A full, bright sound in a recording

To become a powder by losing water of crystallization, as when a hydrated crystal is exposed to air.

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

To become covered with a powdery deposit.

Produce flowers; be in flower

To burst into bloom; to flower.

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

Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.

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

Senses relating to chemistry.

The flower of a plant.

Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.

Something resembling the flower of a plant

Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.

The condition of being in flower

Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).

A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime

To blossom forth.

A fresh, rosy complexion

To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.

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.

To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.

A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.

Burst forth into or as if into flower;

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

Assume crystalline form; become crystallized

(Chemistry) See efflorescence.

Become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation

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

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

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;