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UK
/flˈəʊ/
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[ US /ˈfɫoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫoʊ/ ]
VERB
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fall or flow in a certain way
This dress hangs well
Her long black hair flowed down her back -
be abundantly present
The champagne flowed at the wedding - cover or swamp with water
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cause to flow
The artist flowed the washes on the paper -
undergo menstruation
She started menstruating at the age of 11 -
move along, of liquids
the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Water flowed into the cave -
move or progress freely as if in a stream
The crowd flowed out of the stadium
NOUN
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
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dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
two streams of development run through American history
the current of history
the flow of thought
stream of consciousness - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
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the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
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
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped -
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
How To Use flow In A Sentence
- Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
- You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
- It also provides ample cushioning with shock-absorbing HydroFlow technology in the heel and forefoot, and has a water-repellant upper.
- Since the extra energy being transferred from one molecule to the next changes the way each absorbs and emits light, the flow of energy can be followed through optical spectroscopy, resolved on a femtosecond timescale.
- It was a homey room, though a little too flowery for me, with prints of cabbage-size roses on the slipcovers and curtains. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
- At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood. The Education of a Gardener