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Definition of Flowing
1. Adjective. Designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow. "A streamlined convertible"
2. Noun. The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases).
Specialized synonyms: Fountain, Jet, Ebb, Reflux, Backflow, Backflowing, Air Flow, Airflow, Flow Of Air, Current, Stream, Freshet, Spate, Overflow, Overspill, Runoff, Drippage, Dripping, Discharge, Outpouring, Run, Flux, Fluxion, Ooze, Oozing, Seepage, Dribble, Drip, Trickle, Emission, Flush, Gush, Outpouring, Rush, Spate, Surge, Upsurge
Generic synonyms: Change Of Location, Travel
Derivative terms: Flow, Flow, Flow, Flow
Definition of Flowing
1. a. That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
Definition of Flowing
1. Verb. (present participle of flow) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb '''to flow''' ¹
3. Adjective. Tending to flow. ¹
4. Adjective. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flowing
1. flow [v] - See also: flow
Medical Definition of Flowing
1.
That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowing
Literary usage of Flowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Hydraulics by Hector James Hughes, Arthur Truman Safford (1911)
"A stream of water is a body of water spouting through the air or flowing through
a channel cut out of or made up of solid materials. 108. ..."
2. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"EFFECT OF flowing WATER UPON THE DIRECTION OF GROWTH ... When the radicle of a
bean is suspended by the cotyledons above a stream of flowing water, ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"464 A WET SHEET AND A flowing SEA A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that
follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; ..."
4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"This tube should be inserted so that the longest tube reaches the center of the
flowing gas. FIG. 216. Apparatus for Sampling Gas. ..."
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"While sacrificing hands upraise The chalice flowing to the brim. Tell no more of
enchanted days. And still you hold our longing gaze With languorous look ..."
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