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Flow   /floʊ/   Listen
noun
Flow  n.  
1.
A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
2.
A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
3.
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. "The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
4.
The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
5.
A low-lying piece of watery land; called also flow moss and flow bog. (Scot.)


verb
Flow  v. t.  
1.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
2.
To cover with varnish.


Flow  v. i.  (past & past part. flowed; pres. part. flowing)  
1.
To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
2.
To become liquid; to melt. "The mountains flowed down at thy presence."
3.
To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. "Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions."
4.
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. "Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters."
5.
To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. "In that day... the hills shall flow with milk." "The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl."
6.
To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. "The imperial purple flowing in his train."
7.
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. "The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between."
8.
To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.


Flow  v.  obs. Imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.





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"Flow" Quotes from Famous Books



... in 1840, the sixteenth book to flow from Marryat's pen. It is principally set on the banks of the River Thames, as it flows through London, in particular at Greenwich. Many of the landmarks described still exist, though their use may have changed in two centuries! Like "Jacob Faithful", which also takes place to a large extent, ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... miles away. This is done only when scouts bring word that cargo valuable enough to make it worth while is about to pass. Each time the brigands make a foray a return raid by Chinese soldiers can be expected. Occasionally these are real, "honest-to-goodness" fights, and blood may flow on both sides, but the battle sometimes ...
— Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' • Roy Chapman Andrews
... the bottom of the pool, for when Davie brought him to the surface, he seemed quite insensible, and he struck out for the Ythan side of the pool. He did what he could for the boy, letting the water flow from his mouth and ears, and rubbing him ...
— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson
... a similar project was abandoned because the flow of water to the disused mill which it was proposed to convert into a creamery, passed through a conduit lined with cement originally purchased from a man who now occupied a farm from which another had been evicted. To some minds these little complications would have spelled failure. ...
— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett
... man left the ranks on pretense of caring for the wounded he should be shot on the spot; that the wounded must be left till the fight was over. His men cheered him, and we took up the cheer. Blood was beginning to flow through our veins again, and we could even comment to one another upon the sneaks who remained in camp, on pretense of being sick. As we moved toward the front the fugitives and the wounded increased in numbers. Poor wretches, horribly mutilated, ...
— "Shiloh" as Seen by a Private Soldier - With Some Personal Reminiscences • Warren Olney


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