Home Forum Dictionary Articles Tutorials Books Directory Share your work


Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Dictionary » T » Thrive

Thrive

thrive

1. To posper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. (I. Watts)

2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. They by vices thrive. O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives? (milton) And so she throve and prospered. (Tennyson)

3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

Origin: Throve or Thrived; Thrived or Thriven; Thriving [OE. Riven, Icel. Rifask; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from rifa to grasp; akin to Dan. Trives to thrive, Sw. Trifvas. Cf. Thrift.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


Question on Predators/ NS

... Those varaiations would have existed even without the carp, but they have now a strong advantage compared to other variations and will be able to thrive as would never have done without the carp. Alternatively the carp is going to hunt all prey to death, and the carp population is going to collapse ...

See entire post
by canalon
Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:35 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Question on Predators/ NS
Replies: 6
Views: 174

Natural selection is proven wrong

... die as soon as they are no longer able to breed, thus removing competition for resources and giving the younger generations an opportunity to thrive. So, interestingly, one could argue that high rates of cancer actually proves the validity of natural selection as a biological theory.

See entire post
by alextemplet
Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:17 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16611

Conditions for a stable ecosystem? (for a simulation)

... tuning their caracteristics and beginning ratios, are always one of two. Either they all get extinct in the first generation or two, or herbivores thrive until plants reach their limit and cannot sustain them, when herbivores get a higher ratio than plants (and plants number start to drop exponentially) ...

See entire post
by Smig
Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:04 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Conditions for a stable ecosystem? (for a simulation)
Replies: 11
Views: 3246

Bio Application Problem

... part of an organism where what they need to survive on is in abundance (erythrocytes + iron in bloodstream) whereas prokaryotic cells can thrive independently because they dont require particular substances to live. Eukaryotic cells on the contrary are highly competent cells that are performing ...

See entire post
by andrew2322
Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:24 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bio Application Problem
Replies: 0
Views: 429

Determine Salinity and Anaerobes

... food condiment). This sauce contain salts to keep it preserved. Now, if the goal is to determine a specific salinity point where bacteria could thrive and eventually spoil the sauce, are there good measures in determining at what point where the bacteria are able to proliferate and thus lose ...

See entire post
by mcar
Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:00 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Determine Salinity and Anaerobes
Replies: 4
Views: 1052
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005. This page has been accessed 1,235 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link