'Flow' definitions:
Definition of 'flow'
From: WordNet
noun
The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn: flow, flowing]
noun
The amount of fluid that flows in a given time [syn: flow, flow rate, rate of flow]
noun
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression [syn: flow, stream]
noun
Any uninterrupted stream or discharge
noun
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" [syn: stream, flow]
noun
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" [syn: stream, flow, current]
noun
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 [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]
verb
Move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" [syn: flow, flux]
verb
Move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course]
verb
Cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
verb
Be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
verb
Fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: hang, fall, flow]
verb
Cover or swamp with water
verb
Undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11" [syn: menstruate, flow]
Definition of 'Flow'
From: GCIDE
- Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), obs. imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flow'
From: GCIDE
- Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. [root]80. Cf. Flood.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To become liquid; to melt. [1913 Webster]
- The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is. lxiv. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. [1913 Webster]
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. [1913 Webster]
- Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. [1913 Webster]
- In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. --Joel iii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. [1913 Webster]
- The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. [1913 Webster]
- The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flow'
From: GCIDE
- Flow \Flow\, v. t.
- 1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cover with varnish. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flow'
From: GCIDE
- Flow \Flow\, n.
- 1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. [1913 Webster]
- The feast of reason and the flow of soul. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also {flow moss} and flow bog. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abound,
- abundance,
- accrue from,
- advance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- air flow,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- angular motion,
- appropriateness,
- arise,
- arise from,
- ascend,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- Atticism,
- avalanche,
- axial motion,
- back,
- back up,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- bag,
- be contingent on,
- be due to,
- be effortless,
- be painless,
- begin,
- blow out,
- bonanza,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- brim,
- bristle with,
- Brownian movement,
- bubble,
- bud from,
- budge,
- bumper crop,
- burble,
- career,
- cascade,
- change,
- change place,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- chylifaction,
- chylification,
- circle,
- circulate,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- climb,
- climbing,
- coast,
- coasting,
- come,
- come from,
- come out of,
- comeliness,
- commute,
- concourse,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continue,
- continuity,
- copiousness,
- correctness,
- course,
- cover,
- cover ground,
- crawl,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- crosscurrent,
- current,
- daggle,
- dangle,
- defluxion,
- deluge,
- depend,
- depend on,
- derive from,
- descend,
- descend from,
- descending,
- descent,
- dignity,
- direct tide,
- directness,
- discharge,
- discrimination,
- disembogue,
- distinction,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- downward motion,
- drabble,
- drag,
- draggle,
- drain,
- drain out,
- drape,
- drift,
- driftage,
- droop,
- ease,
- ebb,
- ebb and flow,
- ebb tide,
- ebbing,
- effusion,
- egestion,
- ejaculation,
- ejection,
- elapse,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- elimination,
- emanate,
- emanate from,
- emerge from,
- emission,
- emit,
- empty,
- endure,
- ensue from,
- excess,
- excretion,
- exhaust,
- expire,
- extravagance,
- extravasation,
- extrusion,
- exuberance,
- exuberate,
- exudation,
- facility,
- fall,
- fare,
- fare forth,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fertility,
- fetch,
- find vent,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flap,
- flight,
- flit,
- flood,
- flood tide,
- flop,
- flow back,
- flow from,
- flow in,
- flow on,
- flow out,
- flowing,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- fluidity,
- fluidness,
- flush,
- flux,
- flux and reflux,
- fluxility,
- fluxion,
- fly,
- foison,
- follow from,
- forward motion,
- full measure,
- full tide,
- fullness,
- gang,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- germinate from,
- get over,
- give no trouble,
- give off,
- glide,
- gliding,
- glissade,
- go,
- go along,
- go around,
- go by,
- go easily,
- go like clockwork,
- go on,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- grow from,
- grow out of,
- gurgle,
- gush,
- gush out,
- gyrate,
- hang,
- hang down,
- hang on,
- head,
- hie,
- high tide,
- high water,
- hinge on,
- ice-skate,
- inflood,
- inflow,
- inpour,
- inrush,
- issue,
- issue from,
- jet,
- juiciness,
- lactation,
- lactescence,
- landslide,
- lapse,
- last,
- lavishness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- limpidity,
- liquefaction,
- liquidness,
- lop,
- lots,
- low tide,
- low water,
- lucidity,
- lunar tide,
- luxuriance,
- make,
- maximum,
- milkiness,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- moisture,
- more than enough,
- mount,
- mounting,
- move,
- move along,
- move on,
- move over,
- movement,
- much,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- naturalness,
- neap,
- neap tide,
- neatness,
- nod,
- numerousness,
- oblique motion,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- opposite tide,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- originate,
- originate in,
- outflow,
- outpour,
- outpouring,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overspread,
- pass,
- pass by,
- passage,
- pellucidity,
- pend,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- plethora,
- plunge,
- plunging,
- poetry,
- polish,
- pour,
- pour in,
- pour out,
- present no difficulties,
- press on,
- prevalence,
- proceed,
- proceed from,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- progress,
- progression,
- proliferate,
- propriety,
- pullulate,
- purity,
- purl,
- quantities,
- race,
- radial motion,
- rain,
- random motion,
- refinement,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- regurgitate,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- restraint,
- retrogress,
- retrogression,
- rheuminess,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- rip,
- ripple,
- riptide,
- rise,
- rising,
- roll,
- roll on,
- roller-skate,
- rotate,
- run,
- run its course,
- run on,
- run out,
- run over,
- run smoothly,
- rush,
- sag,
- sail,
- sailing,
- sappiness,
- sashay,
- scads,
- secretion,
- seemliness,
- sequence,
- series,
- serosity,
- set,
- shift,
- shower,
- sideslip,
- sideward motion,
- simplicity,
- sink,
- sinking,
- skate,
- skateboard,
- skating,
- ski,
- skid,
- skiing,
- skim,
- sled,
- sledding,
- sleigh,
- slide,
- sliding,
- slip,
- slipping,
- slither,
- slithering,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- smoothness,
- soar,
- soaring,
- solar tide,
- spate,
- spew,
- spew out,
- spill,
- spin,
- spout,
- spout out,
- spread,
- spring,
- spring from,
- spring tide,
- sprout from,
- spurt,
- squirt,
- stem,
- stem from,
- sternway,
- stir,
- straightforwardness,
- stream,
- subside,
- subsiding,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- succession,
- succulence,
- superabundance,
- supply,
- suppuration,
- surge,
- surge back,
- swag,
- swarm,
- swarm with,
- sweep,
- sweeping,
- swing,
- swirl,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- teem,
- teem with,
- teemingness,
- terseness,
- thalassometer,
- tidal amplitude,
- tidal current,
- tidal current chart,
- tidal flow,
- tidal range,
- tide,
- tide chart,
- tide gate,
- tide gauge,
- tide race,
- tide rip,
- tidewater,
- tideway,
- tobogganing,
- trail,
- traject,
- trajet,
- transudation,
- travel,
- trend,
- trickle,
- turbulence,
- turn on,
- unaffectedness,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- upward motion,
- vomit forth,
- wane,
- water flow,
- wateriness,
- wayfare,
- wealth,
- weep,
- well,
- well out,
- wend,
- whirl,
- work well
Words containing 'Flow'
- Flowed,
- Flowing,
- Flowingly,
- flow from,
- flow off,
- flow on,
- flow out,
- Ebb and flow,
- Flowing Wells,
- Flowing battery,
- Flowing furnace,
- Flowing sheet,
- air flow,
- cash flow,
- cursive flowing,
- flow away,
- flow bog,
- flow chart,
- flow diagram,
- flow moss,
- flow of air,
- flow rate,
- flow sheet,
- laminar flow,
- menstrual flow,
- rate of flow,
- streamline flow,
- tidal flow,
- turbulent flow,
- work flow,
- Flowing Wells, AZ,
- laminar flow clean room