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Breeze vs Flow - What's the difference?

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Breeze is a related term of flow.


In lang=en terms the difference between breeze and flow

is that breeze is to buzz while flow is to discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

As nouns the difference between breeze and flow

is that breeze is a gadfly; a horsefly or breeze can be a light, gentle wind while flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.

As verbs the difference between breeze and flow

is that breeze is to buzz or breeze can be to move casually, in a carefree manner while flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another.

breeze

English

(wikipedia breeze)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) brese, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(breezes)
  • A gadfly; a horsefly.
  • A strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
  • Verb

  • To buzz.
  • Etymology 2

    1555, nautical term .

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light, gentle wind.
  • :
  • *(William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • *:Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
  • *
  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
  • :
  • (lb) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
  • Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. .
  • An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
  • :
  • Synonyms
    * See also * cakewalk, cinch, doddle, piece of cake, walk in the park, walkover; see also
    Coordinate terms
    * (gentle wind) gale, hurricane, storm
    See also
    * breeze block *

    Verb

    (breez)
  • To move casually, in a carefree manner.
  • (weather) To blow gently.
  • * '>citation
  • To take a horse under a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
  • Anagrams

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    flow

    English

    Noun

  • A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
  • The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • The rising movement of the tide.
  • Smoothness or continuity.
  • The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  • (psychology) The state of being at one with.
  • Menstruation fluid
  • Antonyms

    * (movement of the tide) ebb

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move as a fluid from one position to another.
  • Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
    Tears flow from the eyes.
  • To proceed; to issue forth.
  • Wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • * Milton
  • Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
  • To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
  • The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
  • * Dryden
  • Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
  • To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  • * Bible, Joel iii. 18
  • In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
  • * Prof. Wilson
  • the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
  • To hang loosely and wave.
  • a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
  • * A. Hamilton
  • the imperial purple flowing in his train
  • To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
  • The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
  • (computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
  • To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • To cover with varnish.
  • To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
  • Anagrams

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