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flux
, courant
, fleuve
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Flow
- (v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
- (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
- (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
- (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
- (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
- (v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
- (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
- (v. t.) To cover with varnish.
- () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
- (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
- (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
- (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
- (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
- (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
Synonyms:
Catamenia, Course, Current, Fall, Flowing, Flux, Hang, Menses, Menstruate, Menstruation, Period, Run, Stream,
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• Flowage
- (n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
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• Flowen
- () imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.
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mocking, domestic, tappet, exercising, clarification, exemplify, dial, debut, excoriation, imperial, equable, colombian, duplicity, duplication, gael, disable, crocheting, filly, expansionist, glycerin, constraining, disarray, security, deprival, patroness, freezing point, crystallize, designation, dairymaid, dwarf, bombard, pirogue, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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