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Flowed vs Floxed - What's the difference?

flowed | floxed |

As verbs the difference between flowed and floxed

is that flowed is (flow) while floxed is (flox).

flowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (flow)

    • Anagrams

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    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

    Related terms

    * antiflow * dark flow * ebb and flow * flowable * inflow * midflow * outflow * postflow * preflow * reflow * reflowable

    External links

    * (wikipedia "flow") *

    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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    floxed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flox)

    • flox

    English

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"

    Verb

    (es)
  • (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning citation
    • , passage=In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Curt D. Sigmund & David E. Stec, Angiotensin Protocols, chapter=Genetic Manipulation of the Renin-Angiotensin System Using Cre-loxP-Recombinase, editor=Donna H. Wang citation
    • , passage= Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.}}
    See also
    * (Floxed)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (FLOX)

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (astronautics, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel
  • * {{quote-book, 1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences citation
    • , passage= It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.}}

    See also

    * lox * (FLOX) ----