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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EFFLORESCE

From Latin efflōrēscere to blossom, from flōrēscere, from flōs flower.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EFFLORESCE

effloresce  [ˌɛflɔːˈrɛs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EFFLORESCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Effloresce is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb effloresce in English.

WHAT DOES EFFLORESCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

effloresce

Efflorescence

In chemistry, efflorescence is the loss of water of crystallization from a hydrated or solvated salt to the atmosphere on exposure to air. Efflorescences can occur in natural and built environments. On porous construction materials it may present a cosmetic problem only, but can sometimes indicate serious structural weakness.

Definition of effloresce in the English dictionary

The first definition of effloresce in the dictionary is to burst forth into or as if into flower; bloom. Other definition of effloresce is to become powdery by loss of water or crystallization. Effloresce is also to become encrusted with powder or crystals as a result of chemical change or the evaporation of a solution.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO EFFLORESCE

PRESENT

Present
I effloresce
you effloresce
he/she/it effloresces
we effloresce
you effloresce
they effloresce
Present continuous
I am efflorescing
you are efflorescing
he/she/it is efflorescing
we are efflorescing
you are efflorescing
they are efflorescing
Present perfect
I have effloresced
you have effloresced
he/she/it has effloresced
we have effloresced
you have effloresced
they have effloresced
Present perfect continuous
I have been efflorescing
you have been efflorescing
he/she/it has been efflorescing
we have been efflorescing
you have been efflorescing
they have been efflorescing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I effloresced
you effloresced
he/she/it effloresced
we effloresced
you effloresced
they effloresced
Past continuous
I was efflorescing
you were efflorescing
he/she/it was efflorescing
we were efflorescing
you were efflorescing
they were efflorescing
Past perfect
I had effloresced
you had effloresced
he/she/it had effloresced
we had effloresced
you had effloresced
they had effloresced
Past perfect continuous
I had been efflorescing
you had been efflorescing
he/she/it had been efflorescing
we had been efflorescing
you had been efflorescing
they had been efflorescing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will effloresce
you will effloresce
he/she/it will effloresce
we will effloresce
you will effloresce
they will effloresce
Future continuous
I will be efflorescing
you will be efflorescing
he/she/it will be efflorescing
we will be efflorescing
you will be efflorescing
they will be efflorescing
Future perfect
I will have effloresced
you will have effloresced
he/she/it will have effloresced
we will have effloresced
you will have effloresced
they will have effloresced
Future perfect continuous
I will have been efflorescing
you will have been efflorescing
he/she/it will have been efflorescing
we will have been efflorescing
you will have been efflorescing
they will have been efflorescing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would effloresce
you would effloresce
he/she/it would effloresce
we would effloresce
you would effloresce
they would effloresce
Conditional continuous
I would be efflorescing
you would be efflorescing
he/she/it would be efflorescing
we would be efflorescing
you would be efflorescing
they would be efflorescing
Conditional perfect
I would have effloresce
you would have effloresce
he/she/it would have effloresce
we would have effloresce
you would have effloresce
they would have effloresce
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been efflorescing
you would have been efflorescing
he/she/it would have been efflorescing
we would have been efflorescing
you would have been efflorescing
they would have been efflorescing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you effloresce
we let´s effloresce
you effloresce
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to effloresce
Past participle
effloresced
Present Participle
efflorescing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EFFLORESCE


address
əˈdrɛs
caress
kəˈrɛs
compress
kəmˈprɛs
congress
ˈkɒŋɡrɛs
distress
dɪˈstrɛs
dress
drɛs
duress
djʊˈrɛs
express
ɪkˈsprɛs
Flores
ˈflɔːrɛs
fluoresce
ˌflʊəˈrɛs
impress
ɪmˈprɛs
interesse
ˈɪntərɛs
manageress
ˌmænɪdʒəˈrɛs
Menderes
ˌmɛndɛˈrɛs
Peres
ˈpɛrɛs
phosphoresce
ˌfɒsfəˈrɛs
press
prɛs
progress
ˈprəʊɡrɛs
stress
strɛs
suppress
səˈprɛs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EFFLORESCE

efficient cause
efficiently
effierce
effigial
effigies
effigurate
effiguration
effigy
effing
effleurage
efflorescence
efflorescent
effluence
effluent
effluvia
effluvial
effluvium
efflux
efforce
effort

WORDS THAT END LIKE EFFLORESCE

acquiesce
coalesce
compesce
convalesce
deliquesce
effervesce
evanesce
incandesce
intumesce
liquesce
luminesce
obsolesce
opalesce
quiesce
recalesce
recrudesce
rejuvenesce
tumesce
uncoalesce

Synonyms and antonyms of effloresce in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «effloresce» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EFFLORESCE

Find out the translation of effloresce to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of effloresce from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «effloresce» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

风化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

effloresce
570 millions of speakers

English

effloresce
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फूलना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يتزهر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Effloresce
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

effloresce
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফুটিয়া উঠা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

effloresce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Effloresce
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

effloresce
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

開花する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

effloresce
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Effloresce
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nơ bông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

effloresce
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फुलोरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

serpilmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

effloresce
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kwitnąć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Effloresce
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înflori
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξανθώ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bloei
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

effloresce
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

effloresce
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of effloresce

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFLORESCE»

The term «effloresce» is normally little used and occupies the 117.661 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EFFLORESCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «effloresce» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «effloresce» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about effloresce

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EFFLORESCE»

Discover the use of effloresce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to effloresce and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Works of the Cavendish Society: Gmelin, Leopold. Hand-book ...
The more strongly therefore the salt retains its water of crystallization, the dryer must the air be to cause it to effloresce. Hence, according to A. Vogel (Schw. 22, 160), crystallized sulphate of copper, which remains unaltered in air in its ordinary ...
Cavendish Society, London, 1849
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The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...
carbonate of soda, and of anhydrous sulphate of soda; the first from the 80t li of October to the 4th of December, and the two last from the 31st of October to the 4th of December. The crystals of sulphate of soda began in one day to effloresce,  ...
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Philosophical Magazine
portion of iron : he has seen three places in Rusgia where there is superficial peat moss, and in all of them the vitriol is so abundant as to effloresce. In particular, on a moor near St. Petersburgh, the clods show the vitriol (sulphate of iron) every ...
4
The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery: And ...
In paragraph, number ' 4' of your ' Note,' speaking of the ' compound pill of sulphate of iron' you say ; ' If, after a few days, this mass be broken, minute and brilliant crystals may be seen, which in the course of a few hours effloresce and ...
Walter Channing, John Ware, 1823
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Elements of Natural History and Chemistry
Sulphuric acid is thus formed ; which, dissolving the iron; rises above the pyrite in a form resembling vegetation, by separating gradually the small pyramids of which the mineral consists. But all pyrites do not effloresce with the same facility.
comte Antoine François de Fouroroy, Robert Heron, 1790
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Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History: To which is ...
In efslorescence, therefore, the water of crystallization is abstracted, from the salts ; and this is the reason why salts, when they effloresce, lose their sorm, their transparency, and a part of their bulk. It is here of importance to observe, ...
comte Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Robert Heron, 1796
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The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber: A Critical Edition, ...
We therefore say that we see the bodies of perfection exposed above the vapor of sharp things - namely of pontic, pungent things and those completely like them - either not to effloresce, or to give off a very beautiful, blue flower. But we find the  ...
Pseudo-Geber, William Royall Newman, 1991
8
A dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines: containing a ...
Crystallized carbonate of soda contains 62f per cent, of water. The crystals are colorless transparent rhomboids, which readily effloresce in the air, and melt in their own waterof crystallization. On decanting the liquid from the fused mass, it is  ...
Andrew Ure, Robert Hunt, 1853
9
SPIN
The verbal volley he lets loose on Submarine Bells (the Chills' Slash/ Warner Bros, debut after singles, EPs and an album on NZ indie Flying Nun) may have you fumbling for lyric sheet and dictionary, deciphering lines like "Effloresce and  ...
10
A Chymical Catechism, Or, The Application of Chymistry to ...
Thus some salts deliquesce, and others effloresce, so as to lose their crystalline form entirely by such exposure. What is meant by the DELIQUESCENCE of a salt ? Some salts have so great an affinity for water, that they absorb it with avidity ...
Samuel Parkes, 1807

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EFFLORESCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term effloresce is used in the context of the following news items.
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Opinion: Finding meaning in Darkest Dungeon's narrative design
The worldbuilding inventions of writers and creative teams can effloresce in other ways. Darkest Dungeon is, at heart, a relatively simple RPG ... «Gamasutra, Jun 15»
2
'There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,' Saul Bellow's Nonfiction
Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”: “I remembered Riva as a full-figured, dark-haired, plump, ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
3
Alive with Disagreement and Dissent: On AO Scott, Politics, and Art
Of course, a novel that begins with character may effloresce to become the story of a revolution, as with Zhivago. But what distinguishes the ... «The Millions, Jan 15»
4
Album review: The Chills, The BBC Sessions
In 1988 they unveiled songs (Part Past Part Fiction, Dead Web, Effloresce and Deliquesce) that would appear on their next album Submarine ... «New Zealand Herald, Jan 15»
5
It's Chriissssstmassss! Tracks-mas: The Christmas Edition
Bearing all the hallmarks of one of their sparse interludes from debut album 'Effloresce', this is gently lilting, reverb-heavy, and surprisingly ... «DIY Magazine, Dec 14»
6
The Chills: BBC Sessions
Keeping the maritime theme that permeated the album to come, “Effloresce and Deliquesce” matches its studio version, allowing listeners to ... «PopMatters, Nov 14»
7
The Rise of Asia
... of U.S.-Central Asia Biofuels Ltd., after the announcement. Under Modi, the already robust Russo-Indian relationship could effloresce into something stunning. «theTrumpet.com, Jul 14»
8
The VA Conspiracy
... nothing better than for the Veteran Affairs fuss to evaporate, but the department's fraud and access-to-care scandals continue to effloresce. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 14»
9
Indore oomphs up the ramp!
... budding fashion designers from the SDPS Women's College put up a fabulous show at their graduating fashion event - Effloresce 2014. «Times of India, May 14»
10
Nirvana for Two-Year-Olds
So much of the catharsis of Nirvana, and the indie effloresce that came in its wake, was a negativity that was refreshing. As Stephen Malkmus ... «New Yorker, Jan 14»

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