Roar vs Flourish - What's the difference?
roar | flourish |
To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
* Dryden
To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
* Spenser
Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
* Milton
* Gray
(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
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* Ford
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, title= To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
* Bishop Burnet
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
The cry of the lion.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
The deep cry of the bull.
A loud resounding noise.
* 1944, , Brave Men , University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
A show of strength or character.
To thrive or grow well.
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, title= To prosper or fare well.
* Nelson
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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.
As a proper noun roar
is .As a verb flourish is
to thrive or grow well.As a noun flourish is
a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.roar
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .
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- This last action will roar thy infamy.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
Noun
(en noun)- The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
- the roar of a motorbike
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."
flourish
English
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
* See alsoNoun
(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.