- flow, flowing - the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
--1 is a kind of change of location, travel
--1 has particulars:fountain, jet; ebb, reflux; flood; backflow, backflowing; airflow, air flow, flow of air; current, stream; freshet, spate; overflow, runoff, overspill; dripping, drippage; discharge, outpouring, run; flux, fluxion; seepage, ooze, oozing; drip, trickle, dribble; emission; flush, gush, outpouring; rush, spate, surge, upsurge Derived forms: verb flow4, verb flow3, verb flow2 - flow, flow rate, rate of flow - the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
--2 is a kind of rate
--2 has particulars: cardiac outputDerived forms: verb flow4, verb flow3, verb flow2 - flow, stream - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
--3 is a kind of motion, movement, move
--3 has particulars:spill, spillage, release; flood, overflow, outpouring Derived forms: verb flow4, verb flow3, verb flow2, verb flow1 - flow - any uninterrupted stream or discharge
--4 is a kind of natural process, natural action, action, activity
--4 has particulars:slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash; turbulent flow; streamline flow; filling; flowage; inflow, influx; outflow, effluence, efflux Derived forms: verb flow4, verb flow3 - stream, flow - 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"
--5 is a kind of motion
Derived form: verb flow1 - stream, flow, current - 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"
--6 is a kind of course, line
- menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow - 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
--7 is a kind of discharge, emission, expelling
--7 has particulars: menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea; oligomenorrheaDerived form: verb flow7
- flow, flux - move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
--1 is one way to move
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun flow5, noun flow3
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- run, flow, feed, course - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
--2 is one way to move
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun flow3, noun flow2, noun flow1, noun flowing1
Water and oil flow into the bowl
- flow - cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun flow4, noun flow3, noun flow2, noun flow1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- flow - be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
--4 is one way to exist, be
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun flow2, noun flow1, noun flow4, noun flow3
Something is ----ing PP
- hang, fall, flow - fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
Sample sentence:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
- flow - cover or swamp with water
--6 is one way to flood
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun flowage2, noun flowage3
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- menstruate, flow - undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
--7 is one way to shed blood, bleed, hemorrhage
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun flow7
Somebody ----s