flow
noun
1. the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
Similar word(s): flowing
Definition categories: event, travel
2. the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
Definition categories: time, rate
3. the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Similar word(s): stream
Definition categories: act, motion, move, movement
4. any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Definition categories: process, action, activity
5. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
Similar word(s): stream
Definition categories: state, motion
6. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the flow of thought
Similar word(s): current, stream
Definition categories: group, course, line
7. 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
Similar word(s): catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period
Definition categories: process, discharge, emission, expelling
Sentences with flow as a noun:
- The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
- The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
- Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
- Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.
verb
1. move or progress freely as if in a stream
- The crowd flowed out of the stadium
Similar word(s): flux
Definition categories: motion, move
2. move along, of liquids
- Water flowed into the cave
Similar word(s): course, feed, run
Definition categories: motion, move
3. cause to flow
- The artist flowed the washes on the paper
Definition categories: motion
4. be abundantly present
- The champagne flowed at the wedding
Definition categories: stative, be, exist
5. fall or flow in a certain way
- Her long black hair flowed down her back
Definition categories: contact
6. cover or swamp with water
Definition categories: change, flood
7. undergo menstruation
Similar word(s): menstruate
Definition categories: body, bleed, hemorrhage
Sentences with flow as a verb:
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- a flowing mantle; flowing locks
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.