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.
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, 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.
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The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
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(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
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Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebb
Related terms
* antiflow
* dark flow
* ebb and flow
* flowable
* inflow
* midflow
* outflow
* postflow
* preflow
* reflow
* reflowable
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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promenade Noun
( en noun)
(label) A prom (dance).
A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
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A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise.
* 1900 , (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams)'', '' , (translated by (James Strachey)) pg. 235:
- The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
Synonyms
* (a place to walk) esplanade
Verb
(en-verb)
To walk.
To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
Derived terms
* promenader (agent noun)
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