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Flow

noun

1.

The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases). Synonym: flowing.

2.

The amount of fluid that flows in a given time. Synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow.

3.

The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression. Synonym: stream.

4.

Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.

5.

Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. Synonym: stream. "The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

6.

Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas. Synonyms: current, stream. "Stream of consciousness" , "The flow of thought" , "The current of history"

7.

The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause. Synonyms: catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period. "A woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" , "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"

verb

1.

Move or progress freely as if in a stream. Synonym: flux.

2.

Move along, of liquids. Synonyms: course, feed, run. "The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

3.

Cause to flow.

4.

Be abundantly present.

5.

Fall or flow in a certain way. Synonyms: fall, hang. "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

6.

Cover or swamp with water.

7.

Undergo menstruation. Synonym: menstruate.

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"Flow" Quotes from Famous Books

... hath taught this. The earth (saith he) conteineth within it fountains not only of water, but also of spirite & fire: some of them flowing like riuers, doe cast foorth red hote iron: from whence also doeth flow, sometimes luke-warme water, sometimes skalding hote, and somtimes temperate. And Seneca. [Sidenote: Lib. 3. nat. qust.] Empedocles thought that Baths were made hote by fire, which the earth secretly conteineth in many ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt

... Meanwhile, the bucket corps was rapidly dipping up water and filling the tank. The boys had not yet begun to work the handles, as Bert had arranged to give a signal, on a whistle he carried, when he wanted the water to begin to flow. ...

— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster

... loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; Make the settled snow-bank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; But whate'er you do to-night, Bathe my window, make it flow, Melt it as the ices go; Melt the glass and leave the sticks Like a hermit's crucifix; Burst into my narrow stall; Swing the picture on the wall; Run the rattling pages o'er; Scatter poems on the floor; Turn ...

— A Boy's Will • Robert Frost

... companion's interest. Once he gently restrained him, as the hatless man plunged carelessly forward in front of an approaching car. As the pair neared the house, the woman at the window could hear the rapid flow of talk. Preston was excited, self-assertive, and ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... note remarkable developments of migration. There is, for example, that flow to and fro across the Atlantic of labourers from the Mediterranean. Italian workmen by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

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