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Ornate vs Somersault - What's the difference?

ornate | somersault |

As verbs the difference between ornate and somersault

is that ornate is (obsolete) to adorn; to honour while somersault is to perform a somersault.

As an adjective ornate

is elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

As a noun somersault is

(chiefly|gymnastics) starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 while airborne, with one's feet going over one's head.

ornate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
  • *
  • *:The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth?;. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
  • Flashy, flowery or showy
  • Finely finished, as a style of composition.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:a graceful and ornate rhetoric

    • Related terms

    * ornament

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    Verb

    (ornat)
  • (obsolete) To adorn; to honour.
    • They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. — Latimer.

    Anagrams

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    somersault

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, gymnastics) Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 while airborne, with one's feet going over one's head.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform a somersault.
    • The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.

    See also

    * (l)