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Flow vs Moment - What's the difference?

flow | moment |

As nouns the difference between flow and moment

is that flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts while moment is moment or moment can be momentum.

As a verb flow

is to move as a fluid from one position to another.

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.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • 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

    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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    moment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief, unspecified amount of time.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
  • The smallest portion of time; an instant.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • Weight or importance.
  • * 1597 , (William Shakespeare), , 3,7,67:
  • In deep designs, in matter of great moment , / No less importing than our general good.
  • * 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Second Stain) , (Norton 2005, p.1192)
  • The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment .
  • The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. Also called moment of force.
  • (label) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
  • (label) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
  • (label) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
  • (label) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
  • Synonyms

    * (brief span of time) (l), (l), (l) * (physics) moment of force

    Derived terms

    * aha moment * at a moment's notice * at the moment * at this moment in time * blonde moment * branding moment * dipole moment * driveway moment * eureka moment * London moment * magnetic moment * moist moment * momentarily * momentary * moment of force * moment of inertia * moment of silence * moment of truth * on the spur of the moment * polar moment of inertia * second moment of area * second moment of inertia * senior moment * seismic moment * single-minded branding moment * spur-of-the-moment * spur of the moment * tumbleweed moment

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    References

    * 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , v 3 p 3174. ("The smallest portion of time; an instant." is a direct quote from this Dictionary.)