Rap vs Flow - What's the difference?
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(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(uncountable) Blame (for something).
(informal) A casual talk
(uncountable) Rap music.
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
* 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
* Prior
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
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(informal) To talk casually.
Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
* Jonathan Swift
* Mrs. Alexander
A whit; a jot.
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.
As nouns the difference between rap and flow
is that rap is rap, rap music (music style) while flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.As a verb flow is
to move as a fluid from one position to another.rap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia rap)- The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
Synonyms
* (blame) fallDerived terms
* beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rapEtymology 2
From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .Verb
(rapp)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
- With one great peal they rap the door.
- ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
- He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
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Derived terms
* rap on * rapperSee also
* emcee * hip-hopEtymology 3
Uncertain.Etymology 4
Perhaps contracted from rapparee.Noun
(en noun)- Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
- Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
- I don't care a rap .
- That's not worth a rap .
Anagrams
* ----flow
English
Noun
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.