Flourish

['flʌrɪʃ] or [ˈflɜːrɪʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; 'he entered to a flourish of trumpets'; 'her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare'.

(noun.) the act of waving.

(noun.) a display of ornamental speech or language.

(noun.) a showy gesture; 'she entered with a great flourish'.

(noun.) an ornamental embellishment in writing.

艾德琳校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

(v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

(v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

(v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.

(n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

(n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

手打:威尔

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Thrive, grow.[2]. Prosper, succeed, be successful, go on well.[3]. Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade, bluster, make a show, be ostentatious, show off, cut a dash, make a flourish.

v. a. Brandish, wave.

n. [1]. Ostentation, parade, show, display, dash.[2]. Bombast, grandiloquence, flowery speech, high-sounding words.[3]. Fanciful strokes (of a pen, &c.).

杜威手打

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Prosper, thrive, speed, triumph, brandish, wave

ANT:Fail, fade, decline, miscarry, founder, arrest, sheath, ground

伊诺克校對

解釋/意思:

v.i. to thrive luxuriantly: to be prosperous: to use copious and flowery language: to move in fantastic figures: to display ostentatiously: (mus.) to play ostentatious passages or ostentatiously: to play a trumpet-call: to make ornamental strokes with the pen: to boast or brag.—v.t. to adorn with flourishes or ornaments: to swing about by way of show or triumph: (Shak.) to gloss over.—n. decoration: showy splendour: a figure made by a bold stroke of the pen: the waving of a weapon or other thing: a parade of words: a musical prelude: a trumpet-call.—adjs. Flour′ished decorated with flourishes; Flour′ishing thriving: prosperous: making a show.—adv. Flour′ishingly.—adj. Flour′ishy abounding in flourishes.—Flourish of trumpets a trumpet-call sounded on the approach of great persons; any ostentatious introduction.

編輯:帕梅拉