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Effective vs Flourish - What's the difference?

effective | flourish |

As nouns the difference between effective and flourish

is that effective is (military) a soldier fit for duty while flourish is a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

As an adjective effective

is having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

As a verb flourish is

to thrive or grow well.

effective

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
    • The pill is an effective method of birth control.
  • Producing a decided or decisive effect.
    • The president delivered an effective speech!
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Whosoever is an effective , real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
  • Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
    • How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
    My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
    The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
    The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
  • Actually in effect.
    • The curfew is effective at midnight.
  • Having no negative coefficients.

    • Related terms

    * effect * effectivity * effectual * efficacious * efficacity * efficacy * efficiency * efficient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A soldier fit for duty.
  • *1876 , , Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign :
  • *:The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives , and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.
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    flourish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To thrive or grow well.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='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.}}
  • To prosper or fare well.
  • * Nelson
    • Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish , and that by the means of their wickedness.
  • * '>citation
  • To be in a period of greatest influence.
  • To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
  • To make bold, sweeping movements with.
  • To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
  • To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
  • * J. Watts
    • They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
  • To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
  • To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
    • (Fenton)
    (Shakespeare)
  • To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
  • (obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (es)
  • A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
    • With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.
  • An ornamentation.
    • His signature ended with a flourish .
  • (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
    • The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.
  • (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

    • References

    * English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs