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- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈflɔ:(r)ɪʃ/
- IPA: /ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
Substantiivit
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- An ornamentation.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
Esimerkit
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- The barley flourished in the warm weather.
- The town flourished with the coming of the railway.
- The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business.
- Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
- One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof [...]
- His writing flourished before the war.
- Bottoms of thread [...] which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
- They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.
- Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
- They dilate [...] and flourish long on little incidents.
- Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
- With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
- His signature ended with a flourish.
- The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
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