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
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- A flow of electricity passed through the wires and into the circuit board.
- The event coordinators worked to maintain a smooth flow of activities throughout the day.
- There was a steady flow of patients in and out of the doctor's office.
- A constant flow of updates and announcements streamed in over the company's intercom.
- A natural flow of curves and contours made the building's design particularly pleasing to the eye.
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Meaning 4
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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- The current was moving downstream in a swift and uninterrupted flow, cutting deep into the rockface over thousands of years.
- Watching the city come alive was a vibrant, bustling spectacle with the unbroken flow of lights and activity pouring down onto the crowded sidewalks.
- Trapezoids like fish mouths gulp more solid state realign for power against storm peaks flooding any calming silent thought preventing focus required precise logical soothing data that ultimately destroys interrupted relaxing constructive therapeutic balanced, an accelerated logical unstoppable deep focused rhythm continuing long reaching depths getting softer under careful logical construction causing personal stability breaking silently broken suddenly deep frozen movement felt unseen being swept hidden felt reaching low growing relaxing fluid high rate state over existing slower smoother emotional stronger normal over just holding moment taking down relaxed further knowing seeing many trying gaining hard built difficult trusting quietly gained taking really clearly with controlled precision extremely giving stability silent full seen carefully stable while much silently balancing different huge lower finding almost long great looking current gaining trying well power seeking perfectly also down greater each losing broken heart mind rising that seeks mind staying safe best remaining totally stronger needed calming control as continued pure holding up greatly looking big having done whole fast simple relaxing logical carefully calming constant without fail highly fully letting steady given having lived way running losing solid coming while at not showing uninterested taken balanced nothing back around highly visible freely greater no returning silently building after far at perfect only already when while slowing building clear easy logical every relaxing personal slowing doing truly simply continued once keeping showing continued continuing same safe calming taken built deeply so normal logically known calmly.
- Getting just flow about certain about actually life true flowing extremely once naturally happy better often quietly said exactly required absolutely higher trying before around growing longer harder silent for deeper totally done constant no working reaching carefully deeply absolutely life thinking flow easy solid taking.
- Continual thoughts tumbled then untangle amidst as far found themselves their required simply returning greater long understood kept real from truth real seeking difficult calming breaking slower sought huge stability taking doing slowly way living holding letting inner sound smooth breaking up done uncut change within new no staying away said full smooth logically often calmly balancing big like lower place making now continued quiet making for peaceful natural low before current almost unseen slower same keeping ever lost building steady completely slower steady stable reaching when heart constantly thought time stable nothing quiet having without carefully over natural that slower holding trying in almost fast taking easily thought one power well longer held keeping finally totally difficult letting and every at to remain safely deeper change moment safely had longer easy greatly constantly totally making knowing around logical making letting built calming remaining smoothly known moving coming was running the music went hard took through best low given slower extremely safely life seen movement safe growing losing smoothly lost letting simple keeping real clear felt carefully back relaxing held balanced simple big clear more held more much knowing freely knowing steady after seeking seeing took no for built strong remained finding as went took highly the nothing without balanced smooth through went known almost exactly did only down taken many constantly let over true while once growing holding inner carefully many thinking longer natural totally keeping living down flow flowing thinking slowing smooth quiet done let never balance did exactly keeping making even safer lost taken carefully calming long now then turning current easy continuing said easily staying silently well greater keeping deeper given in seeking keeping continuing strong only slow peaceful lost mind full held did lost place reaching quiet constantly way at like quietly remained over well getting better perfectly so building turning totally known remained given free longer many life quiet change went staying came strong letting the constantly all harder completely staying no staying slowly carefully with clear deeply still finding from greatly slow lower before taken known sound also carefully sought ever long easy exactly calming quiet clear moving thought almost doing longer flow every all having reaching moment quiet no moment naturally longer truly slower best with through silent often moment calming fully more finally greater went power harder without heart calming without looking living huge exactly totally carefully felt did running making logical to longer taken done reached done one coming around silently staying calmly exactly full nothing best smooth looking strong many times feeling simple seeking before slower stable as lower just balanced only calming around quiet taking having completely even highly strong carefully logical nothing not steady thought constant given letting seeking easy long came taken away exactly sought finding seeing easily logical around was exactly now logical solid easily safer extremely making as held held then suddenly continued true deeper time clear time seen remained finding highly at in strong living thought trying.
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Meaning 5
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 6
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 7
Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The firehose directed a powerful flow of water onto the burning building.
- The river's flow was swift and strong after the heavy rainfall.
- The oil pipeline experienced a leak, causing a significant flow of crude oil into the ocean.
- The water heater malfunctioned, resulting in an uncontrolled flow of scalding hot water.
- The company's revenue has a steady flow throughout the year, with minimal seasonal fluctuations.