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Definition of 'flow'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) flow
to move along in a stream:
The river flows to the sea.

2.  flow
to circulate, as blood.

3.  flow
to stream or well forth.

4.  flow
to issue or proceed from a source:
Orders flowed from the office.

5.  flow
to come or go as in a stream:
Masses of people flowed by.

6.  flow
to proceed continuously:
The words flowed from his pen.

7.  flow
to hang loosely at full length:
hair flowing down her back.

8.  flow
to abound in something:
a land flowing with plentiful harvests.

9.  flow
to menstruate.

10.  flow
to rise and advance, as the tide

11. (v.t.) flow
to cause or permit to flow.

12.  flow
to cover with liquid; flood.

13. (n.) flow
an act of flowing.

14.  flow
movement in or as if in a stream.

15.  flow
the rate of flowing.

16.  flow
the volume of fluid that flows through a passage during a given unit of time.

17.  flow
something that flows; stream.

18.  flow
an outpouring of something:
a flow of blood.

19.  flow
an overflowing; flood.

20.  flow
the rise of the tide

21.  flow
the transference of energy:
heat flow.

Definition of 'flow'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flow, flowing
the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

2. (noun) flow, flow rate, rate of flow
the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

3. (noun) flow, stream
the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

4. (noun) flow
any uninterrupted stream or discharge

5. (noun) stream, flow
something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
"a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

6. (noun) stream, flow, current
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
"two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

7. (verb) menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle

8. (verb) flow, flux
move or progress freely as if in a stream
"The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

9. (verb) run, flow, feed, course
move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

10. (verb) flow
cause to flow
"The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

11. (verb) flow
be abundantly present
"The champagne flowed at the wedding"

12. (verb) hang, fall, flow
fall or flow in a certain way
"This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

13. (verb) flow
cover or swamp with water

14. (verb) menstruate, flow
undergo menstruation
"She started menstruating at the age of 11"

Definition of 'flow'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) flow
to move smoothly and continuously
where the river flows into the ocean; a road system designed to keep the traffic flowing

2.  flow
(of ideas, thoughts, words, etc.) to keep coming easily
Everyone relaxed and the conversation began to flow.

3. (noun) flow
the steady and continuous movement of sth
the flow of blood through your body

4.  flow
the steady and efficient supply of sth
the flow of information; the flow of funds

5.  flow
go with the flow
to be relaxed about a situation and do what seems natural
Try not to worry - just go with the flow

Definition of 'flow'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) flow
a stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood

2. (noun) flow
a continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words

3. (noun) flow
any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream

4. (noun) flow
the tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb

5. (noun) flow
a low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog

6. flow
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i

7. (verb) flow
to move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes

8. (verb) flow
to become liquid; to melt

9. (verb) flow
to proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy

10. (verb) flow
to glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily

11. (verb) flow
to have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious

12. (verb) flow
to hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks

13. (verb) flow
to rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours

14. (verb) flow
to discharge blood in excess from the uterus

15. (verb) flow
to cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood

16. (verb) flow
to cover with varnish

Translation of 'flow'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to move along in the way that water does The river flowed into the sea.
Afrikaans: vloei	Arabic: يَتَدَفَّق	Bulgarian: тека
Brazilian: correr	Czech: téci	German: fließen
Danish: løbe; strømme	Greek: κυλώ, ρέω, χύνομαι	Spanish: fluir
Estonian: voolama	Farsi: جریان داشتن	Finnish: virrata
French: couler	Hebrew: לִזרוֹם	Hindi: बहना, सरकना
Croatian: teci, izlijevati se	Hungarian: folyik	Indonesian: mengalir
Icelandic: renna, flæða, streyma	Italian: fluire	Japanese: 流れる
Korean: (강, 물, 액체가) 흐르다	Lithuanian: tekėti	Latvian: tecēt; plūst
Malay: mengalir	Dutch: stromen	Norwegian: renne, strømme, flyte
Polish: płynąć	Persian: جریان داشتن	Pashto: روانیدل
Portuguese: correr	Romanian: a curge	Russian: впадать
Slovak: tiecť	Slovenian: teči	Serbian: teći
Swedish: rinna, strömma, flyta	Thai: น้ำไหล	Turkish: akmak
Taiwanese: 流動	Ukrainian: текти; литися	Urdu: پانی کے ہمراح جانا
Vietnamese: chảy	Chinese: 流动
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