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Harvest vs Flourish - What's the difference?

harvest | flourish |

In transitive terms the difference between harvest and flourish

is that harvest is to win, achieve a gain while flourish is to adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

In intransitive terms the difference between harvest and flourish

is that harvest is to be occupied bringing in a harvest while flourish is to execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

harvest

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The third season of the year; autumn; fall.
  • The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain.
  • The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop.
  • The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered crops or fruits.
  • This year's cotton harvest''' was great but the corn '''harvest was disastrous.
  • * 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
  • *:The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest' of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the ' harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
  • (by extension) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.
  • * Fuller
  • The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee.
  • * Wordsworth
  • the harvest of a quiet eye
  • (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}

    Synonyms

    * (season of the year) autumn, fall * (horti- or agricultural yield) crop

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.
  • To be occupied bringing in a harvest
  • ''Harvesting is a stressing, thirsty occupation
  • To win, achieve a gain.
  • ''The rising star harvested well-deserved acclaim, even an Oscar under 21

    Derived terms

    * harvestable * harvestability * harvester * harvest bug * harvest fish * harvest fly * harvest home * harvest louse * harvestman * harvest mite * harvest moon * harvest mouse * harvest queen * harvest spider * harvest time

    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.