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flow - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.
- intransitive verb To issue in a stream; pour forth.
- intransitive verb To circulate, as the blood in the body.
- intransitive verb To move with a continual shifting of component particles.
- intransitive verb To proceed steadily and easily.
- intransitive verb To exhibit a smooth or graceful continuity.
- intransitive verb To hang loosely and gracefully.
- intransitive verb To rise. Used of the tide.
- intransitive verb To arise; derive.
- intransitive verb To be abundant; teem.
- intransitive verb To move from one place to another in large numbers.
- intransitive verb To menstruate.
- intransitive verb To undergo plastic deformation without cracking or breaking. Used of rocks, metals, or minerals.
- intransitive verb To release as a flow.
- intransitive verb To cause to flow.
- noun The act of flowing.
- noun The smooth motion characteristic of fluids.
- noun A stream or current.
- noun A flood or overflow.
- noun A residual mass that has stopped flowing.
- noun A continuous output or outpouring.
- noun A continuous movement or circulation.
- noun The amount that flows in a given period of time.
- noun The rising of the tide.
- noun Continuity and smoothness of appearance.
- noun A general movement or tendency.
- noun The sequence in which operations are performed.
- noun An apparent ease or effortlessness of performance.
- noun Menstrual discharge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quicksand.
- noun A marshy moor; a morass; a low-lying piece of watery land.
- In the differential calculus, to enlarge (or diminish) continuously, that is, by infinitesimal increments (+ or —).
- noun The act or state of flowing; a continuous passing or transmission, as of water or other fluid; movement in or as if in a current or stream: as, a flow of blood, oil, lava, or magnetism; the volume of flow in a river.
- noun That which flows, or results from flowing; a mass of matter moving or that has moved in a stream: as, to walk over a lava-flow.
- noun The rise of the tide: as, the daily ebb and flow.
- noun Any strong progressive movement, as of thought, language, trade, etc., comparable to the flow of a river; stream; current: as, a flow of eloquence; the flow of commodities toward a commercial center.
- noun Figuratively, abundant influx or efflux; copiousness in emission, communication, or reception.
- noun In mech., the volume of fluid which flows through a passage of any given section in a unit of time.
- noun In ceramics, the flux used to cause color to run and blend in firing.
- noun That part of an inclosed space, as a reservoir, along and from which a contained liquid is flowing.
- noun A form of the obsolete preterit and past participle (flowen) of fly.
- Cold; windy; boisterous; bleak: as, flow weather.
- To move along, as water or other fluid, in a continuous succession or stream, by the force either of gravity or of impulse upon individual particles or parts; move in a current; stream; run: as, the river flows northward; venous blood flows from the extremities to the heart; the crowd flowed in a steady stream toward the point of attraction.
- Hence To proceed; issue; well forth: as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
- To abound; have or be in abundance; be full: as, flowing cups or goblets.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English flouen, from Old English flōwan; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old English flōwan, from Proto-Germanic *flōanan, from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-. Cognate from Proto-Indo-European (via Latin) with fluent, flux.
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Examples
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Of course, going with the flow is a lot easier, and Canadians are ‘easy-going’ people.
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Most of the flow is the Unconferences piece which has been widely linked to.
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Dudley said those communities who were hurt, should not allow the actions of trouble makers to stop what she described as a flow of goodwill growing in South Africa.
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Most of the flow is the Unconferences piece which has been widely linked to.
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Normally, the flow is above 200 for only 50% of the time at this time of year and above 550 only 20% of the time, but it has been as high as 3800 and as low as 37 on this day in history.
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Normally, the flow is above 200 for only 50% of the time at this time of year and above 550 only 20% of the time, but it has been as high as 3800 and as low as 37 on this day in history.
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It would be about an hour if there's no what they call flow problems at LAX.
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This is what we refer to as the flow of money, money left fixed income and moved into equities.
Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News Victor Burek 2009
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The flow is a bit wonky between panels 4 and 5, alas - I couldn't make that work and still keep the design, so the design ended up winning.
Archive 2009-05-01 Roger Langridge 2009
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The flow is a bit wonky between panels 4 and 5, alas - I couldn't make that work and still keep the design, so the design ended up winning.
Krazy, Daisy Roger Langridge 2009
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Words with the same meaning
- Atticism
- Brownian movement
- abound
- abundance
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- advance
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- air flow
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- rain
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- rip
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- smoothness
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- terseness
- thalassometer
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- tidal current chart
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- vomit forth
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- weep
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jwjarvis commented on the word flow
Csikszentmihalyi. skill and challenge arrive at a flow state, otherwise boredom or anxiety would be evident
November 13, 2010