Found 3 items, similar to Flow.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: flow
aliran, arus, bercucuran, cicik, gerabak, mengalir, pancaran, pengaliran
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: flow
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]
flow
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Flow
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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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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Flow
\Flow\ (fl[=o]), obs.
imp. sing. of
Fly, v. i. --Chaucer.
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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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