Flow vs Abundance - What's the difference?
flow | abundance | Synonyms |
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
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(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.
A large quantity; many.
An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
* (rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
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Flow is a synonym of abundance.
As nouns the difference between flow and abundance
is that flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts while abundance is a large quantity; many .As a verb flow
is to move as a fluid from one position to another.flow
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Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
* (wikipedia "flow") *Verb
(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
Anagrams
* *abundance
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(wikipedia abundance)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) abundaunce * (obsolete) habundance * (obsolete) boundance * (card games) abondanceNoun
(en noun)- It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
