Flow vs Dribble - What's the difference?

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Flow is a related term of dribble.

As verbs the difference between flow and dribble

is that flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another while dribble is .

As a noun flow

is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.

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.

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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

External links

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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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dribble

English

Verb

(dribbl)

To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool

To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle

In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet

(basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it;

To advance by dribbling

to let something fall in drips

* Jonathan Swift

Let the cook dribble it all the way upstairs.

in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks

Noun

(en noun)

A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.

A small amount of a liquid.

In sport, the act of dribbling.

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