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Meaning of flow in English
Pronunciation
/floʊ/
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Verb
flow
Etymology
Old English flōwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vloeien, also to flood
Definitions
1.
move or progress freely as if in a stream
Examples
« The crowd flowed out of the stadium »
2.
move along, of liquids
Examples
« Water flowed into the cave »
« the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi »
3.
cause to flow
Examples
« The artist flowed the washes on the paper »
4.
be abundantly present
Examples
« The champagne flowed at the wedding »
5.
fall or flow in a certain way
Examples
« This dress hangs well »
« Her long black hair flowed down her back »
6.
cover or swamp with water
7.
undergo menstruation
Examples
« She started menstruating at the age of 11 »
Noun
flow
Definitions
1.
the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
2.
the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
3.
the act of flowing or streaming
Examples
« continuous progression »
4.
any uninterrupted stream or discharge
5.
something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
Examples
« a stream of people emptied from the terminal »
« the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors »
6.
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
Examples
« two streams of development run through American history »
« 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
Examples
« 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 »