Flow (Noun)
Meaning 1
The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases).
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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- Reflux
- Runoff
- Drippage
- Spate
- Trickle
- Dribble
- Flow Of Air
- Gush
- Outpouring
- Air Flow
- Surge
- Run
- Jet
- Fluxion
- Ooze
- Oozing
- Backflowing
- Overspill
- Stream
- Upsurge
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Meaning 2
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 3
The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "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"--Aristotle.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 4
Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 5
The amount of fluid that flows in a given time.
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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Meaning 6
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 7
Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.