Verb: flow flow
- Move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave";
- run, feed, course
- Move or progress freely as if in a stream
"The crowd flowed out of the stadium";
- flux
- Cause to flow
"The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
- Be abundantly present
"The champagne flowed at the wedding"
- Fall or flow in a certain way
"Her long black hair flowed down her back";
- hang, fall
- Undergo menstruation
"She started flowing at the age of 11";
- menstruate
- The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
"The flow of the river was mesmerizing to watch";
- flowing
- The amount of fluid that flows in a given time
"The plumber measured the flow rate to determine if the pipes were clogged"; "The rate of flow through the pipe was measured in litres per minute";
- flow rate, rate of flow
- The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
"The steady flow of traffic continued throughout the day";
- stream
- Any uninterrupted stream or discharge
"The steady flow of traffic during rush hour caused delays"
- Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
"the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors";
- stream
- Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
"the flow of thought";
- stream, current
- 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";
- menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period
Sounds like: flouriness, flowerinflow
Derived forms: flowing, flowed, flows
Type of: action, activity, be, bleed, cause, change of location, course, discharge, emission, exist, get, go, haemorrhage [Brit, Cdn], have, hemorrhage [N. Amer], induce, line, locomote, make, motion, move, movement, natural action, natural process, rate, shed blood, stimulate, travel
Encyclopedia: Flow, Turbulence & Combustion