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intransitive verb. To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.

intransitive verb. To issue in a stream; pour forth.

intransitive verb. To circulate, as the blood in the body.

intransitive verb. To move with a continual shifting of component particles.

intransitive verb. To proceed steadily and easily.

intransitive verb. To exhibit a smooth or graceful continuity.

intransitive verb. To hang loosely and gracefully.

intransitive verb. To rise. Used of the tide.

intransitive verb. To arise; derive.

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intransitive verb. To be abundant; teem.

intransitive verb. To move from one place to another in large numbers.

intransitive verb. To menstruate.

intransitive verb. To undergo plastic deformation without cracking or breaking. Used of rocks, metals, or minerals.

intransitive verb. To release as a flow.

intransitive verb. To cause to flow.

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noun. The act of flowing.

noun. The smooth motion characteristic of fluids.

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noun. A stream or current.

noun. A flood or overflow.

noun. A residual mass that has stopped flowing.

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noun. A continuous output or outpouring.

noun. A continuous movement or circulation.

noun. The amount that flows in a given period of time.

noun. The rising of the tide.

noun. Continuity and smoothness of appearance.

noun. A general movement or tendency.

noun. The sequence in which operations are performed.

noun. An apparent ease or effortlessness of performance.

noun. Menstrual discharge.

noun. A form of the obsolete preterit and past participle (flowen) of fly.

Cold; windy; boisterous; bleak: as, flow weather.

In the differential calculus, to enlarge (or diminish) continuously, that is, by infinitesimal increments (+ or —).

noun. The act or state of flowing; a continuous passing or transmission, as of water or other fluid; movement in or as if in a current or stream: as, a flow of blood, oil, lava, or magnetism; the volume of flow in a river.

noun. That which flows, or results from flowing; a mass of matter moving or that has moved in a stream: as, to walk over a lava-flow.

noun. The rise of the tide: as, the daily ebb and flow.

noun. Any strong progressive movement, as of thought, language, trade, etc., comparable to the flow of a river; stream; current: as, a flow of eloquence; the flow of commodities toward a commercial center.

noun. Figuratively, abundant influx or efflux; copiousness in emission, communication, or reception.

noun. In mech., the volume of fluid which flows through a passage of any given section in a unit of time.

noun. In ceramics, the flux used to cause color to run and blend in firing.

noun. That part of an inclosed space, as a reservoir, along and from which a contained liquid is flowing.

To move along, as water or other fluid, in a continuous succession or stream, by the force either of gravity or of impulse upon individual particles or parts; move in a current; stream; run: as, the river flows northward; venous blood flows from the extremities to the heart; the crowd flowed in a steady stream toward the point of attraction.

Hence To proceed; issue; well forth: as, wealth flows from industry and economy.

To abound; have or be in abundance; be full: as, flowing cups or goblets.

To glide smoothly, without harshness or dissonance: as, a flowing period; flowing numbers.

To hang loose and waving: as, flowing skirts; flowing locks.