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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 —).
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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.
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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.
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The rise of the tide: as, the daily ebb and flow.
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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.
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Figuratively, abundant influx or efflux; copiousness in emission, communication, or reception.
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In mech., the volume of fluid which flows through a passage of any given section in a unit of time.
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In ceramics, the flux used to cause color to run and blend in firing.
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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.