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Adjective: flowing  flow-ing
  1. Designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow
    "a flowing convertible";
    - streamlined, aerodynamic, sleek
     
  2. (of clothes or hair) fitting or draping loosely
    "She wore a flowing summer dress that caught the breeze beautifully";
    - flowy [informal]
     
  3. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously
    "flowing prose"
Noun: flowing  flow-ing
  1. The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
    "The flowing of the river was mesmerizing to watch";
    - flow
Verb: flow  flow
  1. Move along, of liquids
    "Water flowed into the cave";
    - run, feed, course
     
  2. Move or progress freely as if in a stream
    "The crowd flowed out of the stadium";
    - flux
     
  3. Cause to flow
    "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
     
  4. Be abundantly present
    "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
     
  5. Fall or flow in a certain way
    "Her long black hair flowed down her back";
    - hang, fall
     
  6. Undergo menstruation
    "She started flowing at the age of 11";
    - menstruate

Derived forms: flowings

See also: smooth

Type of: be, bleed, cause, change of location, exist, get, go, haemorrhage [Brit, Cdn], have, hemorrhage [N. Amer], induce, locomote, make, move, shed blood, stimulate, travel

Encyclopedia: Flowing

Flow, Turbulence & Combustion