Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), obs.
imp. sing. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[=o]d); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
[root]80. Cf. {Flood}.]
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. --Is.
lxiv. 3.
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. --Milton.
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.
--Dryden.
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.
--Joel iii.
18.
The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
influence of the flowing bowl. --Prof.
Wilson.
6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
Hamilton.
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.
--Shak.
8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flow \Flow\, v. t.
1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to
inundate; to flood.
2. To cover with varnish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flow \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. --Pope.
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.] --Jamieson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flow
n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn:
{flowing}]
2: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time [syn: {flow
rate}, {rate of flow}]
3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
[syn: {stream}]
4: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
5: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving
continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the
terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow
of visitors" [syn: {stream}]
6: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
events or ideas: "two streams of development run through
American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
thought"; "the current of history" [syn: {stream}, {current}]
7: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women
were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a
woman does not take the gout unless her menses be
stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in
males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the
catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: {menstruation},
{menses}, {catamenia}, {period}]
v 1: move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed
out of the stadium" [syn: {flux}]
2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave" [syn: {run},
{course}]
3: cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
4: be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
5: fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her
long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: {hang}, {fall}]
6: cover or swamp with water
7: undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age
of 11" [syn: {menstruate}]
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