flourish vs or

flourish

noun
  • An ornamentation. 

  • A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. 

  • A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag. 

  • A decorative embellishment on a building. 

verb
  • To thrive or grow well. 

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

  • To make bold, sweeping movements with. 

  • To be in a period of greatest influence. 

  • To prosper or fare well. 

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

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

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

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

  • To develop; to make thrive; to expand. 

or

noun
  • or 

  • The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. 

prep
  • Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere". 

conj
  • Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true. 

  • Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). 

  • Connects two equivalent names. 

  • An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. 

  • Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. 

adj
  • Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. 

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