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Bloom vs. Vigor — What's the Difference?

Bloom vs. Vigor — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bloom and Vigor

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Bloom

A flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty
An exotic bloom

Vigor

Physical or mental strength, energy, or force
Our vigor was depleted by the hot weather.

Bloom

A delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems
The bloom on a plum

Vigor

The capacity for natural growth and survival, as of plants or animals.

Bloom

A full, bright sound in a recording
The remastering has lost some of the bloom of the strings
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Vigor

Strong feeling; enthusiasm or intensity
Argued his point with great vigor.

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

Vigor

(American spelling) vigour

Bloom

Produce flowers; be in flower
A chalk pit where cowslips bloomed

Vigor

Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
The vigor of this arm was never vain.

Bloom

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

Vigor

Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.

Bloom

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

Vigor

Strength; efficacy; potency.
But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find.

Bloom

The flower of a plant.

Vigor

To invigorate.

Bloom

Something resembling the flower of a plant
"Her hair was caught all to one side in a great bloom of frizz" (Anne Tyler).

Vigor

An exertion of force;
He plays tennis with great energy

Bloom

The condition of being in flower
A rose in full bloom.

Vigor

Active strength of body or mind

Bloom

A condition or time of vigor and beauty; prime
"the radiant bloom of Greek genius" (Edith Hamilton).

Vigor

An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
His writing conveys great energy

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

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