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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



... women, of whom our friend at the Savupirtti constantly reminded us; we told her that they had recited how Winminen had made himself a Kantele out of the head of a pike, and how he had played upon it so beautifully that the tears had welled to his own eyes until they began to flow, and as his tears fell into the sea the drops turned into ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... Angus, if you look at both sides of it. What is stronger than water, when the wind blows it with power? And you know who is compared to the wind. 'Awake, O North Wind, and come, Thou South; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.' It is the wind of God's Spirit that we want, to blow the water—powerless of itself—in the right direction. It will carry ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... a little over the prevarication. St. Michael was not Peter Masters, even excuses found no easy flow in ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... surely inspired those references in Amelia to the country life of 'love, health, and tranquillity,' a life resembling a calm sea which "must appear dull in description; for who can describe the pleasures which the morning air gives to one in perfect health; the flow of spirits which springs up from exercise; the delights which parents feel from the prattle and innocent follies of their children; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband; or lastly the cheerful ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden
... the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved. Marianne pressed her hand ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen


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