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adjective

Fluent adj.

Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; said of language; as, fluent speech. "With most fluent utterance." "Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter."

noun

Fluent n.

A current of water; a stream. (Obs.)

(Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

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Etymology of 'Fluent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fluent" Quotes from Famous Books

... tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, 10 The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last ...

— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson

... is not easy to say what a panegyrist of that period intended by 'a complete knowledge of Greek,' or 'fluent Greek writing,' in a Prince. I suspect, however, that we ought not to understand by these phrases anything like a real familiarity with Greek literature, but rather such superficial knowledge as would enable a reader of Latin books to understand allusions and quotations. Poliziano, it may be remarked, ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... ex-tempore in Parliament he muffed the subject, forgot his theme, and sat down in confusion. With all his incisive thought and fine command of language, Addison could not think on his feet. And as if aware of his limitations, in one of the "Spectator" essays he said, with more or less truth, "The fluent orator, ready to speak on any topic, is never profound, and when once his thought is cold it will seldom repay examination—it was ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... know all yet. Lately I've been alone with him a great deal, and you know how you talk about yourselves in those circumstances. I had told him everything I had ever done and thought—most; had turned myself inside out. Then I made him talk. Up to a certain point he was fluent enough; then he shut up like a clam. I never was very curious about men; but because he was all mine, or perhaps because I didn't have anything else to think about, I made up my mind he should come to confession. He fought me off, but you know I have a way of ...

— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... officer, gallant soldier, and loyal and kind to his men. He was a man of brilliant attainments and one of the most gifted and fluent speakers in ...

— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

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