flow

[[t]floʊ[/t]]

v. i.

1) to move along in a stream:

The river flows to the sea[/ex]

2) to circulate, as blood

3) to stream or well forth

4) to issue or proceed from a source:

Orders flowed from the office[/ex]

5) to come or go as in a stream:

Masses of people flowed by[/ex]

6) to proceed continuously:

The words flowed from his pen[/ex]

7) to hang loosely at full length:

hair flowing down her back[/ex]

8) to abound in something:

a land flowing with plentiful harvests[/ex]

9) phl to menstruate

10) to rise and advance, as the tide

(opposed to ebb 4)).

11) to cause or permit to flow

12) to cover with liquid; flood

13) an act of flowing

14) movement in or as if in a stream

15) the rate of flowing

16) the volume of fluid that flows through a passage during a given unit of time

17) something that flows; stream

18) an outpouring of something:

a flow of blood[/ex]

19) phl

menstruation

20) an overflowing; flood

21) the rise of the tide

(opposed to ebb).

22) phs the transference of energy:

heat flow[/ex]

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- go with the flow

Etymology: bef. 900; ME; OE flōwan