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looming
(encz) | looming,navádění osnovy Jaroslav Šedivý |
looming
(encz) | looming,navlékání osnovy Jaroslav Šedivý |
Looming
(gcide) | Loom \Loom\ (l[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loomed (l[=oo]md);
p. pr. & vb. n. Looming.] [OE. lumen to shine, Icel. ljoma;
akin to AS. le['i]ma light, and E. light; or cf. OF. lumer to
shine, L. luminare to illumine, lumen light; akin to E.
light. [root]122. See Light not dark.]
1. To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to
appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant
object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from
atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land
looms high.
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Awful she looms, the terror of the main. --H. J.
Pye.
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2. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in
a moral sense.
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On no occasion does he [Paul] loom so high, and
shine so gloriously, as in the context. --J. M.
Mason.
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3. To become imminent; to impend.
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Looming
(gcide) | Looming \Loom"ing\, n.
The appearance above the horizon of a distant object that
would normally be hidden below it, due to unusually large
atmospheric refraction. See Mirage.
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blooming
(encz) | blooming,kvetoucí adj: Zdeněk Brožblooming,zatracený "hovorový eufemizmus, tj. zjemňující projev" |
fall-blooming hydrangea
(encz) | fall-blooming hydrangea, n: |
glooming
(encz) | glooming, adj: |
looming
(encz) | looming,navádění osnovy Jaroslav Šedivýlooming,navlékání osnovy Jaroslav Šedivý |
night-blooming cereus
(encz) | night-blooming cereus, n: |
Blooming
(gcide) | Bloom \Bloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bloomed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blooming.]
1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be
in flower.
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A flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom. --Milton.
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2. 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.
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A better country blooms to view,
Beneath a brighter sky. --Logan.
[1913 Webster]Blooming \Bloom"ing\, n. (Metal.)
The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
[1913 Webster]Blooming \Bloom"ing\, a.
1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
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2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the
freshness and beauties of youth or health.
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Bloomingly
(gcide) | Bloomingly \Bloom"ing*ly\, adv.
In a blooming manner.
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Bloomingness
(gcide) | Bloomingness \Bloom"ing*ness\, n.
A blooming condition.
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Glooming
(gcide) | Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.]
Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
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When the faint glooming in the sky
First lightened into day. --Trench.
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The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glooming.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
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[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
--Spenser.
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Night-blooming
(gcide) | Night-blooming \Night"-bloom`ing\, a.
Blooming in the night.
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Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.
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Night-blooming cereus
(gcide) | Night-blooming \Night"-bloom`ing\, a.
Blooming in the night.
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Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.
[1913 Webster]Cereus \Ce"re*us\, n. [L., a wax candle, fr. cera wax. So named
from the resemblance of one species to the columnar shape of
a wax candle.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of
America, from California to Chili.
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Note: Although several species flower in the night, the name
Night-blooming cereus is specially applied to the
Cereus grandiflorus, which is cultivated for its
beautiful, shortlived flowers. The Cereus giganteus,
whose columnar trunk is sometimes sixty feet in height,
is a striking feature of the scenery of New Mexico,
Texas, etc.
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autumn-blooming
(wn) | autumn-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn-
flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, {fall-
blooming}, late-flowering, late-blooming] |
blooming
(wn) | blooming
adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking)
nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you
flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a),
bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a),
fucking(a)]
n 1: the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all
bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" [syn: blooming,
bloom] |
blooming-fool begonia
(wn) | blooming-fool begonia
n 1: hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large
pink flowers [syn: Christmas begonia, {blooming-fool
begonia}, Begonia cheimantha] |
bloomington
(wn) | Bloomington
n 1: a university town in south central Indiana |
early-blooming
(wn) | early-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the spring [syn: {spring-
flowering}, early-flowering, spring-blooming, {early-
blooming}, late-spring-blooming] |
fall-blooming
(wn) | fall-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn-
flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, {fall-
blooming}, late-flowering, late-blooming] |
fall-blooming hydrangea
(wn) | fall-blooming hydrangea
n 1: deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower
clusters [syn: fall-blooming hydrangea, {Hydrangea
paniculata}] |
glooming
(wn) | glooming
adj 1: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky] |
late-blooming
(wn) | late-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the autumn [syn: {autumn-
flowering}, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering, {fall-
blooming}, late-flowering, late-blooming] |
late-spring-blooming
(wn) | late-spring-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the spring [syn: {spring-
flowering}, early-flowering, spring-blooming, {early-
blooming}, late-spring-blooming] |
night-blooming cereus
(wn) | night-blooming cereus
n 1: any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus
Selenicereus
2: any of several cacti of the genus Hylocereus
3: any of several cacti of the genus Cereus |
spring-blooming
(wn) | spring-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the spring [syn: {spring-
flowering}, early-flowering, spring-blooming, {early-
blooming}, late-spring-blooming] |
summer-blooming
(wn) | summer-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the summer [syn: {summer-
flowering}, summer-blooming] |
winter-blooming
(wn) | winter-blooming
adj 1: of plants that bloom during the winter [syn: {winter-
blooming}, winter-flowering] |
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