The difference between Flourish and Take off

When used as verbs, flourish means to thrive or grow well, whereas take off means to remove.

Flourish is also noun with the meaning: a dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

check bellow for the other definitions of Flourish and Take off

  1. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

    To thrive or grow well.

    Examples:

    "The barley flourished in the warm weather."

  2. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

    To prosper or fare well.

    Examples:

    "The town flourished with the coming of the railway."

    "The cooperation flourished as the customers rushed in the business."

  3. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

    To be in a period of greatest influence.

    Examples:

    "His writing flourished before the war."

  4. Flourish as a verb (transitive):

    To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

  5. Flourish as a verb (transitive):

    To make bold, sweeping movements with.

    Examples:

    "They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace."

  6. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

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

  7. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

    To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.

  8. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

    To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

  9. Flourish as a verb (transitive):

    To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

  10. Flourish as a verb (intransitive):

    To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

  11. Flourish as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

    Examples:

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  1. Flourish as a noun:

    A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

    Examples:

    "With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue."

  2. Flourish as a noun:

    An ornamentation.

    Examples:

    "His signature ended with a flourish."

  3. Flourish as a noun (music):

    A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.

    Examples:

    "The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church."

  4. Flourish as a noun (architecture):

    A decorative embellishment on a building.

  1. Take off as a verb (transitive):

    To remove.

    Examples:

    "He took off his shoes''."

    "The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word."

    "Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm."

  2. Take off as a verb (transitive):

    To imitate, often in a satirical manner.

  3. Take off as a verb (intransitive, of an aircraft or spacecraft):

    To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.

    Examples:

    "The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3."

  4. Take off as a verb (intransitive):

    To become successful, to flourish.

    Examples:

    "The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit."

  5. Take off as a verb (intransitive):

    To depart.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to take off now."

    "Take off, loser!"

  6. Take off as a verb (transitive):

    To quantify.

    Examples:

    "I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project."

  7. Take off as a verb (transitive):

    To absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.

    Examples:

    "If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa."

    "He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner."

  8. Take off as a verb (intransitive, slang, dated):

    To take drugs; to inject drugs.

  9. Take off as a verb (transitive, slang, dated):

    To steal (something) or rob (someone).

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