Flow vs Aestiferous - What's the difference?
flow | aestiferous |
Æstiʹferous [''æstifer , l] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
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.
(obsolete, not comparable) “Turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.An Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' by [[w:Nathan Bailey, Nathan Bailey (1731),
ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
* 1859 : John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem ,
(comparable, chiefly, used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
* 1979 : J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change ,
As a noun flow
is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.As a verb flow
is to move as a fluid from one position to another.As an adjective aestiferous is
(obsolete|not comparable) “turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”an universal etymological english dictionary'' by [[w:nathan bailey|nathan bailey (1731), [http://booksgooglecouk/books?id=o-giaaaaqaaj&pg=pt28&dq=%22ebbing+and+flowing+as+the+tide%22&ei=-ooosuoeiafuygtlkuhcbw#v=onepage&q=%22ebbing%20and%20flowing%20as%20the%20tide%22&f=false page 28]Æstiʹferous [''æstifer , l] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
flow
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* (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.
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* *aestiferous
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* (archaic) * estiferousAdjective
(en adjective)page 28]
ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
page 241(John Penington & Son)
- Thus they, estiferous , the hollow sphere
Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
page 148(Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809309149, 9780809309146)
- Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.