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Definition of Flow

1. Verb. Move or progress freely as if in a stream. "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

2. Noun. The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases).

3. Verb. Move along, of liquids. "Water and oil flow into the bowl"; "The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

4. Noun. The amount of fluid that flows in a given time.

5. Verb. Cause to flow. "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

6. Noun. The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.

7. Verb. Be abundantly present. "The champagne flowed at the wedding"

8. Noun. Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.

9. Verb. Fall or flow in a certain way. "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

10. Noun. Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. "The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

11. Verb. Cover or swamp with water.

12. Noun. Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas. "The current of history"

13. Verb. Undergo menstruation. "They flow "; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"

14. Noun. The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause. "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"

Definition of Flow

1. 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.

2. v. t. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

3. n. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

Definition of Flow

1. Noun. The movement of a fluid. ¹

2. Noun. The rising movement of the tide. ¹

3. Noun. Smoothness or continuity. ¹

4. Noun. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement. ¹

5. Noun. (psychology) the state of being at one with. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flow

1. to move steadily and smoothly along [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Flow

1. 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. 2. To become liquid; to melt. "The mountains flowed down at thy presence." (Is. Lxiv. 3) 3. To pproceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. "Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions." (Milton) 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. "Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters." (Dryden) 5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. "In that day . . . The hills shall flow with milk." (Joel III. 18) "The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl." (Prof. Wilson) 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. "The imperial purple flowing in his train." (A. Hamilton) 7. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. "The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between." (Shak) 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. Origin: AS. Flowan; akin to D. Vloeijen, OHG. Flawen to wash, Icel. Floa to deluge, Gr. To float, sail, and prob. Ultimately to E. Float, fleet. 80. Cf. Flood. 1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. 2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. 3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. "The feast of reason and the flow of soul." (Pope) 4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. 5. A low-lying piece of watery land; called also flow moss and flow bog. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flow

flouse floused flouses floush floushed floushes floushing flousing flout flouted

flouter flouters flouting floutingly flouts flow (current term) flow'r flow'ret flow'rets flow-over vaporiser

flow-volume curve flow away flow battery flow cell flow chart flow control flow cytoenzymology flow cytometer flow cytometry flow cytophotometry

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