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Definition of FLOWING

Flowing
Flow Flow (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. [root]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.
Flowing
Flowing Flow"ing, a. That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. --Knight. Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola. Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten.
Flowing
Flowing Flow"ing, a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.

Meaning of FLOWING from wikipedia

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- present. Gullies and slope lineae along cliffs and crater walls suggest that flowing water continues to shape the surface of Mars, although to a far lesser...
- flow conditions (or flowing conditions) refer to quantities like temperature and static pressure of the metered substance. The flowing conditions are required...