1.  flow(n = noun.event) flowing - the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases); Array
is a kind of change of location, travel
has particulars: fountain, jet, ebb, reflux, backflow, backflowing, air flow, airflow, flow of air, current, stream, freshet, spate, overflow, overspill, runoff, drippage, dripping, discharge, outpouring, run, flux, fluxion, ooze, oozing, seepage, dribble, drip, trickle, emission, flush, gush, outpouring, rush, spate, surge, upsurge
Derived forms verb flow₂, verb flow₃, verb flow₄

2.  flow(n = noun.time) flow rate, rate of flow - the amount of fluid that flows in a given time; Array
is a kind of rate
has particulars: cardiac output
Derived forms verb flow₂, verb flow₃, verb flow₄

3.  flow(n = noun.act) stream - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression; Array
is a kind of motion, move, movement
has particulars: release, spill, spillage, flood, outpouring, overflow
Derived forms verb flow₁, verb flow₂, verb flow₃, verb flow₄

4.  flow(n = noun.process) Array - any uninterrupted stream or discharge; Array
is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process
has particulars: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream, wash, turbulent flow, streamline flow, filling, flowage, inflow, influx, effluence, efflux, outflow
Derived forms verb flow₃, verb flow₄

5.  flow(n = noun.state) stream - 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"
is a kind of motion
Derived form verb flow₁

6.  flow(n = noun.group) current, stream - 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"
is a kind of course, line

7.  flow(n = noun.process) catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period - 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"; "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"
is a kind of discharge, emission, expelling
has particulars: hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea
Derived form verb flow₇

1.  flow(v = verb.motion) flux - move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
is one way to move
Derived forms noun flow₃, noun flow₅
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP

2.  flow(v = verb.motion) course, feed, run - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
is one way to move
Derived forms noun flow₃, noun flow₁, noun flow₂, noun flowing₁
Sample sentences: Water and oil flow into the bowl

3.  flow(v = verb.motion) Array - cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
Derived forms noun flow₃, noun flow₁, noun flow₄, noun flow₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

4.  flow(v = verb.stative) Array - be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
is one way to be, exist
Derived forms noun flow₃, noun flow₁, noun flow₄, noun flow₂
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP

5.  flow(v = verb.contact) fall, hang - fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
Sample sentences: Something ----s Adjective/Noun

6.  flow(v = verb.change) Array - cover or swamp with water; Array
is one way to flood
Derived forms noun flowage₃, noun flowage₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

7.  flow(v = verb.body) menstruate - undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
is one way to bleed, hemorrhage, shed blood
Derived form noun flow₇
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

   imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.  To become liquid; to melt. [1913 Webster]
"The mountains flowed down at thy presence." [1913 Webster]

3.  To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. [1913 Webster]
"Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters." [1913 Webster]

5.  To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. [1913 Webster]
"In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk." [1913 Webster]
"The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl." [1913 Webster]

6.  To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. [1913 Webster]
"The imperial purple flowing in his train." [1913 Webster]

7.  To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. [1913 Webster]
"The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between." [1913 Webster]

8.  To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. [1913 Webster]

1.  To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. [1913 Webster]

2.  To cover with varnish. [1913 Webster]

1.  A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. [1913 Webster]

2.  A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. [1913 Webster]

3.  Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. [1913 Webster]
"The feast of reason and the flow of soul." [1913 Webster]

4.  The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. [1913 Webster]

5.  A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. Jamieson. [1913 Webster]

flow, v. & n.
--v.intr.
1 glide along as a stream (the Thames flows under London Bridge).
2 a (of a liquid, esp. water) gush out; spring. b (of blood, liquid, etc.) be spilt.
3 (of blood, money, electric current, etc.) circulate.
4 (of people or things) come or go in large numbers or smoothly (traffic flowed down the hill).
5 (of talk, literary style, etc.) proceed easily and smoothly.
6 (of a garment, hair, etc.) hang easily or gracefully; undulate.
7 (often foll. by from) result from; be caused by (his failure flows from his diffidence).
8 (esp. of the tide) be in flood; run full.
9 (of wine) be poured out copiously.
10 (of a rock or metal) undergo a permanent change of shape under stress.
11 (foll. by with) archaic be plentifully supplied with (land flowing with milk and honey).
--n.
1 a a flowing movement in a stream. b the manner in which a thing flows (a sluggish flow). c a flowing liquid (couldn't stop the flow). d a copious outpouring; a stream (a continuous flow of complaints).
2 the rise of a tide or a river (ebb and flow).
3 the gradual deformation of a rock or metal under stress.
4 Sc. a bog or morass.

Idiom:
flow chart (or diagram or sheet)
1 a diagram of the movement or action of things or persons engaged in a complex activity.
2 a graphical representation of a computer program in relation to its sequence of functions (as distinct from the data it processes). flow of spirits habitual cheerfulness. flow-on Austral. a wage or salary adjustment made as a consequence of one already made in a similar or related occupation.

Etymology:
OE flowan f. Gmc, rel. to FLOOD

VB  be sufficient, suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster, have enough, eat, one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill, roll in, swim in, wallow in, wanton, abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down, pour, pour in, swarm, bristle with, superabound, render sufficient, replenish, Adj, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, Adv, sufficiently, amply.

VB  elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass, roll on, wear on, press on, flit, fly, slip, slide, glide, run its course, run out, expire, go by, pass by, be past.

VB  be pendent, hang, depend, swing, dangle, swag, daggle, flap, trail, flow, beetle, suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.

N  motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.

VB  be in motion, move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit, hover about, hover round, hover about, shift, slide, glide, roll, roll on, flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along, wander, walk, change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters, dodge, keep going, keep moving, put in motion, set in motion, move, impel, propel, render movable, mobilize.

VB  be fluid, flow, liquefy, melt, condense.

VB  flow, blow.

N  river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

VB  flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.

VB  whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow, tinkle, mutter, susurrate, steal on the ear, melt in the air, float on the air.

air flow, cash flow, ebb and flow, flow away, flow chart, flow diagram, flow from, flow of air, flow off, flow on, flow out, flow rate, flow sheet, laminar flow, laminar flow clean room, menstrual flow, rate of flow, streamline flow, tidal flow, turbulent flow, work flow