Flow
[fləʊ] or [flo]
解释:
(noun.) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
(noun.) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases).
(noun.) any uninterrupted stream or discharge.
(noun.) the amount of fluid that flows in a given time.
(verb.) cover or swamp with water.
(verb.) move or progress freely as if in a stream; 'The crowd flowed out of the stadium'.
(verb.) cause to flow; 'The artist flowed the washes on the paper'.
(verb.) be abundantly present; 'The champagne flowed at the wedding'.
詹妮校对--From WordNet
解释:
(-) imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
(v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(v. t.) To cover with varnish.
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
录入:勒达
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Stream, run, pour, roll on, sweep along.[2]. Issue, emanate, proceed, come, grow, arise, follow, spring, result, be derived.[3]. Glide, move along easily or smoothly.[4]. Wave, float, undulate, waver, hang loosely.[5]. Abound, be full.
v. a. Flood, inundate, deluge, overflow.
n. [1]. Stream, current, flux.[2]. Abundance, copiousness.
贾维斯整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Stream, issue, progress, glide, course, career, run
ANT:Halt, stick, stickle, stop, hesitate, fail, stint, beat, recoil, regurgitate,ebb
校对:威尔默
解释:
n. a morass: (Scot.) a flat moist tract of land.
v.i. to run as water: to rise as the tide: to move in a stream as air: to glide smoothly: to circulate as the blood: to abound: to hang loose and waving: (B.) to melt.—v.t. to cover with water.—n. a stream or current: the setting in of the tide: abundance: copiousness: free expression.—n. Flow′age act of flowing: state of being flooded.—adj. Flow′ing moving as a fluid: fluent or smooth: falling in folds or in waves.—adv. Flow′ingly.—n. Flow′ingness.
校对:桑福德
例句:
- Miss Mills had a wonderful flow of words, and liked to pour them out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Some two hours after the tapping is done the flow entirely ceases and the tree must be tapped anew to secure a fresh flow. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The carbon being only slightly compressed will offer considerable resistance to the flow of current from the local battery, and therefore the signal on the local sounder will be weak. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- As soon as the current flows, the coils become magnetic and attract the soft iron armature, drawing it forward and causing the clapper to strike the bell. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Here in America alone we have two splendid critics, a man and a woman, whose thought flows from an interpretation of human character. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- In this case the balance is preserved and the central wire remains neutral, as no return current flows through it to the source of energy. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The water which flows on the earth is constantly changing its form; the heat of the sun causes it to evaporate, or to become vapor, and to mingle with the atmosphere. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- With Edison's telephone there is used a closed circuit on which a battery current constantly flows, and in that circuit is a pair of electrodes, one or both of which is carbon. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There were only these few words in her neatly flowing hand:-- I have told Mrs. Casaubon. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- IV The course of this narrative, steadily flowing on, bears me away from the morning-time of our married life, and carries me forward to the end. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- These springs are usually the result of water flowing over a deposit of salt rock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The two gentlemen, refreshed by their bath and a hearty meal, were now arrayed in loose, flowing robes of white wool, similar to that of Justinian. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The blood-flowing had made Margaret conscious--dimly, vaguely conscious. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- But the Stamp Act affair was only one eddy in a turbulent stream flowing towards civil war. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The tide ebbed, and the tide flowed; the summer went on, and the autumn came. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Yes, answered Gutenberg, it is in effect a wine-press, but it shall shortly spout forth floods of the most abundant and marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to quench the thirst of man. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- My thoughts flowed back into their former channel. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- As she spoke, she untied a band, and the golden stream fell over herself and over the chair, and flowed down to the ground. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
手打:尤赖亚