Flow

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flow \Flow\, v. t.
     1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to
        inundate; to flood.
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     2. To cover with varnish.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flow \Flow\, n.
     1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of
        water; a flow of blood.
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     2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of
        words.
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     3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought,
        diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady
        movement of a river; a stream.
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              The feast of reason and the flow of soul. --Pope.
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     4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the
        shore. See {Ebb and flow}, under {Ebb}.
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     5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also {flow
        moss} and {flow bog}. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), obs.
     imp. sing. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[=o]d); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
     OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
     float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
     [root]80. Cf. {Flood}.]
     1. 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.
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     2. To become liquid; to melt.
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              The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
                                                    lxiv. 3.
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     3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
        and economy.
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              Those thousand decencies that daily flow
              From all her words and actions.       --Milton.
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     4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
        as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly
        to the ear; to be uttered easily.
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              Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
        run or flow over; to be copious.
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              In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                    --Joel iii.
                                                    18.
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              The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
              influence of the flowing bowl.        --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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     6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
        locks.
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              The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
                                                    Hamilton.
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     7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
        flows twice in twenty-four hours.
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              The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                    --Shak.
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     8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flow
       n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn:
             {flowing}]
       2: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time [syn: {flow
          rate}, {rate of flow}]
       3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
          [syn: {stream}]
       4: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
       5: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving
          continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the
          terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow
          of visitors" [syn: {stream}]
       6: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
          events or ideas; "two streams of development run through
          American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
          thought"; "the current of history" [syn: {stream}, {current}]
       7: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
          nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women
          were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a
          woman does not take the gout unless her menses be
          stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in
          males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the
          catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: {menstruation},
           {menses}, {menstruum}, {catamenia}, {period}]
       v 1: move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed
            out of the stadium" [syn: {flux}]
       2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
          Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: {run}, {feed},
          {course}]
       3: cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
       4: be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
       5: fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her
          long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: {hang}, {fall}]
       6: cover or swamp with water
       7: undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age
          of 11" [syn: {menstruate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  487 Moby Thesaurus words for "flow":
     Atticism, Brownian movement, abound, abundance, accrue from,
     advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air flow, ample sufficiency,
     ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appropriateness, arise,
     arise from, ascend, ascending, ascent, avalanche, axial motion,
     back, back up, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bag,
     be contingent on, be due to, be effortless, be painless, begin,
     blow out, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brim,
     bristle with, bubble, bud from, budge, bumper crop, burble, career,
     cascade, change, change place, chasteness, chastity, chylifaction,
     chylification, circle, circulate, clarity, classicalism,
     classicism, clearness, climb, climbing, coast, coasting, come,
     come from, come out of, comeliness, commute, concourse, confluence,
     conflux, continuance, continuation, continue, continuity,
     copiousness, correctness, course, cover, cover ground, crawl,
     crawl with, creep with, crosscurrent, current, daggle, dangle,
     defluxion, deluge, depend, depend on, derive from, descend,
     descend from, descending, descent, dignity, direct tide,
     directness, discharge, discrimination, disembogue, distinction,
     downflow, downpour, downward motion, drabble, drag, draggle, drain,
     drain out, drape, drift, driftage, droop, ease, ebb, ebb and flow,
     ebb tide, ebbing, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection,
     elapse, elegance, elegancy, elimination, emanate, emanate from,
     emerge from, emission, emit, empty, endure, ensue from, excess,
     excretion, exhaust, expire, extravagance, extravasation, extrusion,
     exuberance, exuberate, exudation, facility, fall, fare, fare forth,
     felicitousness, felicity, fertility, fetch, find vent, finish,
     fittingness, flap, flight, flit, flood, flood tide, flop,
     flow back, flow from, flow in, flow on, flow out, flowing,
     flowing periods, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flush, flux,
     flux and reflux, fluxility, fluxion, fly, foison, follow from,
     forward motion, full measure, full tide, fullness, gang,
     generosity, generousness, germinate from, get over,
     give no trouble, give off, glide, gliding, glissade, go, go along,
     go around, go by, go easily, go like clockwork, go on, go round,
     go sideways, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility,
     great abundance, great plenty, grow from, grow out of, gurgle,
     gush, gush out, gyrate, hang, hang down, hang on, head, hie,
     high tide, high water, hinge on, ice-skate, inflood, inflow,
     inpour, inrush, issue, issue from, jet, juiciness, lactation,
     lactescence, landslide, lapse, last, lavishness, liberality,
     liberalness, limpidity, liquefaction, liquidness, lop, lots,
     low tide, low water, lucidity, lunar tide, luxuriance, make,
     maximum, milkiness, mill run, millrace, moisture, more than enough,
     mount, mounting, move, move along, move on, move over, movement,
     much, myriad, myriads, naturalness, neap, neap tide, neatness, nod,
     numerousness, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, onward course,
     opposite tide, opulence, opulency, originate, originate in,
     outflow, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overflowing, overspread,
     pass, pass by, passage, pellucidity, pend, perspicuity, plainness,
     plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plunge,
     plunging, poetry, polish, pour, pour in, pour out,
     present no difficulties, press on, prevalence, proceed,
     proceed from, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion,
     progress, progression, proliferate, propriety, pullulate, purity,
     purl, quantities, race, radial motion, rain, random motion,
     refinement, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression,
     regurgitate, repleteness, repletion, restraint, retrogress,
     retrogression, rheuminess, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot,
     riotousness, rip, ripple, riptide, rise, rising, roll, roll on,
     roller-skate, rotate, run, run its course, run on, run out,
     run over, run smoothly, rush, sag, sail, sailing, sappiness,
     sashay, scads, secretion, seemliness, sequence, series, serosity,
     set, shift, shower, sideslip, sideward motion, simplicity, sink,
     sinking, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, sled,
     sledding, sleigh, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, slither,
     slithering, sluice, sluice out, smoothness, soar, soaring,
     solar tide, spate, spew, spew out, spill, spin, spout, spout out,
     spread, spring, spring from, spring tide, sprout from, spurt,
     squirt, stem, stem from, sternway, stir, straightforwardness,
     stream, subside, subsiding, substantiality, substantialness,
     succession, succulence, superabundance, supply, suppuration, surge,
     surge back, swag, swarm, swarm with, sweep, sweeping, swing, swirl,
     taste, tastefulness, teem, teem with, teemingness, terseness,
     thalassometer, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart,
     tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge,
     tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, tobogganing, trail,
     traject, trajet, transudation, travel, trend, trickle, turbulence,
     turn on, unaffectedness, undercurrent, undertow, upward motion,
     vomit forth, wane, water flow, wateriness, wayfare, wealth, weep,
     well, well out, wend, whirl, work well
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Flow
       
           A companion utility to {Floppy} by Julian James Bunn
          .  Flow allows the user to produce
          various reports on the structure of {Fortran 77} code, such as
          {flow diagram}s and common block tables.  It runs under {VMS},
          {Unix}, {CMS}.
       
          Posted to comp.sources.misc volume 31.
       
          (1995-03-14)