flow : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flow	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for flow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flow n the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) Synonym(s): flow, flowing the amount of fluid that flows in a given time Synonym(s): flow, flow rate, rate of flow the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression Synonym(s): flow, stream any uninterrupted stream or discharge 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" Synonym(s): stream, flow 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" Synonym(s): stream, flow, current 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 Synonym(s): menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow v move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" Synonym(s): flow, flux move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" Synonym(s): run, flow, feed, course cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper" be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding" fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" Synonym(s): hang, fall, flow cover or swamp with water undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11" Synonym(s): menstruate, flow
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flow \Flow\ (fl[omac]), obs. imp. sing. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flow \Flow\ (fl[omac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[omac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[d3]wan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[d3]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. [fb]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. 2. To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is. lxiv. 3. 3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. --Milton. 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. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. --Dryden. 5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. --Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. --Prof. Wilson. 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A. Hamilton. 7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. --Shak. 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flow \Flow\, v. t. 1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. 2. To cover with varnish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flow \Flow\, n. 1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. 2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. 3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. --Pope. 4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See {Ebb and flow}, under {Ebb}. 5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also {flow moss} and {flow bog}. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Flow A companion utility to {Floppy} by Julian James Bunn . Flow allows the user to produce various reports on the structure of {Fortran 77} code, such as {flow diagram}s and common block tables. It runs under {VMS}, {Unix}, {CMS}. Posted to comp.sources.misc volume 31. (1995-03-14)