Flow
[fləʊ] or [flo]
Definition
(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'.
Inputed by Jenny--From WordNet
Definition
(-) 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.
Checked by Leda
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Inputed by Jarvis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stream, issue, progress, glide, course, career, run
ANT:Halt, stick, stickle, stop, hesitate, fail, stint, beat, recoil, regurgitate,ebb
Checker: Wilmer
Definition
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.
Typist: Sanford
Examples
- Miss Mills had a wonderful flow of words, and liked to pour them out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Some two hours after the tapping is done the flow entirely ceases and the tree must be tapped anew to secure a fresh flow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Here in America alone we have two splendid critics, a man and a woman, whose thought flows from an interpretation of human character. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were only these few words in her neatly flowing hand:-- I have told Mrs. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These springs are usually the result of water flowing over a deposit of salt rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The blood-flowing had made Margaret conscious--dimly, vaguely conscious. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But the Stamp Act affair was only one eddy in a turbulent stream flowing towards civil war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The tide ebbed, and the tide flowed; the summer went on, and the autumn came. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My thoughts flowed back into their former channel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As she spoke, she untied a band, and the golden stream fell over herself and over the chair, and flowed down to the ground. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Checker: Uriah