Flow vs Gap - What's the difference?
flow | gap |
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.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
A vacant space or time.
A hiatus.
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(label) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(label) The regions between the outfielders.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
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(label) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(label) To make an opening in; to breach.
(label) To check the size of a gap.
As nouns the difference between flow and gap
is that flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts while gap is gap.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
* *gap
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(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
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- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap , and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page=70 , passage=When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.}}
