Flourished vs Flour - What's the difference?
flourished | flour |
(flourish)
To thrive or grow well.
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, title= To prosper or fare well.
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To be in a period of greatest influence.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
* Francis Bacon
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
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
* J. Watts
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.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
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.
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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Powder of other material.
As verbs the difference between flourished and flour
is that flourished is past tense of flourish while flour is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour.As a noun flour is
powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.flourished
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Verb
(head)flourish
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Verb
(es)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.}}
- Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish , and that by the means of their wickedness.
- Bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
- Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
- They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
- (Fenton)
- (Shakespeare)
- Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
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(es)- 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.
flour
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Alternative forms
* flower (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- wood flour , produced by sanding wood
- mustard flour
- that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.'' — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge .