different between prosper vs mushroom

English

Alternative forms

• prospre (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Old French prosperer, from Latin prosper? (“I render happy”), from prosperus (“prosperous”), from Proto-Italic *prosparos, from Proto-Indo-European *speh?- (“to succeed”), whence also Latin sp?s (“hope, expectation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??sp?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??sp?/

Verb

prosper (third-person singular simple present prospers, present participle prospering, simple past and past participle prospered)

1. (transitive) To favor; to render successful.

   • Prosper thou our handiwork.

   • All things concur to prosper our design.

2. (intransitive) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
3. (intransitive) To grow; to increase.

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• See also Thesaurus:prosper

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• Propers, propers, prospre

Latin

Adjective

prosper

1. Alternative form of prosperus (singular masculine nominative)

Romanian

Etymology

From French prospère.

Adjective

prosper m or n (feminine singular prosper?, masculine plural prosperi, feminine and neuter plural prospere)

1. prosperous

Declension

Related terms

• prosperitate

English

Etymology

From Middle English musheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise (“moss”), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosa (“moss”) or Old Dutch mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English m?os (“moss”), Old English m?s (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *mus?, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native Old English swamm. More at mire. Alternatively, the Old French may be of pre-Roman origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m????u?m/, /?m?????m/
• Hyphenation: mush?room

Noun

mushroom (plural mushrooms)

1. Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

   Synonyms: (archaic) mushrump, shroom

2. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
3. Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
4. Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
5. (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
6. (obsolete, figuratively) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

   • upstarts […] call in reproach mushrooms

7. (figuratively) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.

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Adjective

mushroom (not comparable)

1. Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.

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Verb

mushroom (third-person singular simple present mushrooms, present participle mushrooming, simple past and past participle mushroomed)

1. (intransitive) To grow quickly to a large size.
2. To gather mushrooms.

3. To form the shape of a mushroom.
   • 2001, James E. Duffy, I-Car Professional Automotive Collision Repair (page 173)

     Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.

   1. (ballistics) Of a bullet: to form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.

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