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Flow   /floʊ/   Listen
noun
Flow  n.  
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."
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. (Scot.)


verb
Flow  v. t.  
1.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
2.
To cover with varnish.


Flow  v. i.  (past & past part. flowed; pres. part. flowing)  
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."
3.
To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. "Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions."
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."
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." "The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl."
6.
To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. "The imperial purple flowing in his train."
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."
8.
To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.


Flow  v.  obs. Imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.





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"Flow" Quotes from Famous Books



... thrown out in regular spasmodic jets, the pulsations occurring once in ten or twelve seconds. The sides and mouth of this cavern are covered with a dark green deposit, some of which we have taken with us for analysis. About two hundred yards farther on is another geyser, the flow of which occurs about every six hours, and when the crater is full the diameter of the surface is about fourteen feet, the sides of the crater being of an irregular funnelshape, and descending at an angle of about forty-five degrees. At the lowest ...
— The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford
... she now threw over her. This simple act brought us all back to the region of fact. With a long breath, one and all seemed to devote themselves to the most pressing matter before us, that of staunching the flow of blood from the arm of the wounded man. Even as the thought of action came, I rejoiced; for the bleeding was very proof ...
— The Jewel of Seven Stars • Bram Stoker
... Far into future years may reach, And wake a spell which ne'er is broken. A star to gleam in Memory's sky, A line on Memory's page to glow, A smile to offer at her shrine, Or tears which from her springs shall flow. ...
— Our Gift • Teachers of the School Street Universalist Sunday School, Boston
... began to write, knowing she would get her father interested, and she soon found she had to move her fingers very nimbly in order to keep up with the flow of words that fell from his lips. Page after page fluttered to the floor till Dexie cried, "There, papa, that is enough for to-day. The house party are happily paired off and are on the way to the supper table; let us hope they will find enough to eat ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... enter a lake, [294] which they are three days in crossing, and they are easily able to make ten leagues a day up stream. At the end of the lake there dwells a migratory people. Of the three rivers which flow into this lake, one comes from the north, very near the sea, where they consider it much colder than in their own country; and the other two from other directions in the interior, [295] where are migratory savages, living ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 • Samuel de Champlain


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