Flow vs Efflux - What's the difference?
flow | efflux | 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.
The process of flowing out.
* 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening ,
* 1988 , Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complwx segments'', Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), ''Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes , Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a,
* 2003 , Awtar Krishan, Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells'', R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan (editors), ''Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research ,
That which has flowed out.
* Thomson
* 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity ,
To run out.
To flow forth.
(obsolete) To pass away.
Flow is a synonym of efflux.
As nouns the difference between flow and efflux
is that flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts while efflux is the process of flowing out.As verbs the difference between flow and efflux
is that flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another while efflux is to run out.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.
Anagrams
* *efflux
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Noun
(es)- We all age through the efflux of time.
- The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
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- It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
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- The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
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- By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
- the efflux of a boil
- Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
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- Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes' following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise ' effluxes , some dry, others moist.