Bloom vs. Sprout — What's the Difference?

A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty

(of a plant) put out shoots

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

A shoot of a plant

A full, bright sound in a recording

Short for Brussels sprout

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

To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds.

Produce flowers; be in flower

To emerge and develop rapidly

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

To allow or cause to come forth and grow

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

Young plant growth, such as a bud or shoot.

The flower of a plant.

Something resembling or suggestive of a sprout, as in rapid growth

Something resembling the flower of a plant

The young shoots of plants such as alfalfa and soybean, usually eaten raw.

The condition of being in flower

Brussels sprouts.

A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime

A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.

A fresh, rosy complexion

A child.

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 Brussels sprout.

A similar coating, as on newly minted coins.

A bean sprout.

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

An edible germinated seed.

(Chemistry) See efflorescence.

To grow from seed; to germinate.

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

(transitive) To cause to grow from a seed.

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

(transitive) To deprive of sprouts.

A bar of steel prepared for rolling.

(intransitive) To emerge from the ground as sprouts.

A mass of wrought iron ready for further working.

To emerge haphazardly from a surface.

To bear a flower or flowers.

To emerge or appear haphazardly

To support plant life in abundance

To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

To glow; be radiant

To shoot into ramifications.

To mature or flourish with youth and vigor

To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.

To appear or come into being suddenly

To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.

To cause to flourish.

The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.

(Obsolete) To cause to flower.

Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.

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

Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud

(collective) Flowers.

A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)

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

Produce buds, branches, or germinate;

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

Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;

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;