(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was conceptualized more than 35 years ago, but its clinical application only flourished in the past 10 years after a number of technical refinements.
(3) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
(4) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(5) Let's stay together Modern love places more value on how an individual can flourish in relationships, according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Communication , and thus Generation Y have a different romantic dynamic than their parents.
(6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(7) A successful economy and a healthy, creative, open and vibrant democratic society depend on a flourishing creative sector,” Corbyn said.
(8) The lessons from successful, modern economies is that the state has to be active in supporting, promoting, and demanding innovation in order to flourish.
(9) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
(10) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
(11) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.
(12) The second-best team in the Bundesliga were inhibited by Klopp’s return to the Westfalenstadion last week but initially would flourish at Anfield – another Tuchel prediction.
(13) The arts will flourish, teachers will be admired and respected, and in charge of their own profession again.
(14) Unless comprehensive studies are set up to review past evidence and carry out lifespan studies of those exposed, speculation will flourish.
(15) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
(16) "Our proposals remain unchanged and will create an open standards-based internet-connected TV environment within which competition and innovation can flourish.
(17) We will celebrate that the centre is still in existence, is still flourishing and is probably one of the most successful CILs in the country.” Without the momentum created by the independent living movement, he adds, broader policy initiatives in social care, such as personalisation and co-production – involving users of services as partners in making policy and designing services – would never have happened.
(18) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(19) The house flourished but the marriage was bitterly unhappy and ended in divorce.
(20) Ahrendts' exit may also be delayed as she helps put the final flourishes to Burberry's plan to take back its Japanese licence in-house when it comes up for renewal next year.
Passage
Definition:
(v. i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
(v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
(v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
(v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
(v. i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
(v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
(v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
(v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
(v. i.) Reception; currency.
(v. i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
(v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
(v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(2) Exposure to nanomolar concentrations of saralasin, an Ang II agonist, attenuated the passage of the fluorophores across the monolayers by 50-75%.
(3) Cultured cells from fourth to ninth passage showed positive labelling for S 100 protein, carbonic anydrase (CAA), glutamine synthetase (GS), alpha cristallin (alpha C) and polyclonal glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) antibody, but were negative for both monoclonal GFAP antibody and also for Muller cells in the retina.
(4) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
(5) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
(6) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
(7) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(8) The resulting cell lines have a stable phenotype and retain the changes which result from transformation even after extended passaging.
(9) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(10) It is inferred that in this experimental model (1) high-density lipoproteins are probably excreted in the glomerular filtrate, (2) alterations in the composition of the excreted lipoproteins may occur during their passage through the nephron.
(11) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
(12) The cells have been maintained through 23 serial passages, and the modal number of chromosomes was calculated to be 55.
(13) The rate of passage of digesta was significantly reduced in both pair-fed control (50 per cent) and infected (74 per cent) groups.
(14) Unlike cells grown on plastic, RME cells grown on type I collagen were readily subculturable and serial subculture resulted in the cells undergoing 15-20 population doublings (5-6 passages) before exhibiting any loss of growth potential.
(15) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(16) In addition, SPT16 is identical to CDC68, a gene previously shown to be required for passage through the cell cycle control point START.
(17) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(18) The effects of Urocalun and jumping exercise upon the passage of calculi were studied.
(19) The alterations in the glycosaminoglycans and collagen induced by hypoxia may cause changes in the passage of macromolecules through the aortic wall.
(20) Despite the lack of expression of the endogenous CYP17 gene in transfectants from late-passage cells, induced luciferase activity was higher in late-passage transfectants than early-passage transfectants for both the -2544 and -488 constructs.