Definition of Flows. Meaning of Flows. Synonyms of Flows

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Definition of Flows

Flow
Flow Flow (fl[=o]), obs. imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. --Chaucer.
Flow
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.
Flow
Flow Flow, v. t. 1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. 2. To cover with varnish.
Flow
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.

Meaning of Flows from wikipedia

- Look up flow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flow may refer to: Fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid Flow (geomorphology), a type of m**** wasting...
- atmospheric dynamics. While many flows (such as flow of water through a pipe) occur at low Mach numbers (subsonic flows), many flows of practical interest in...
- Flowability, also known as powder flow is a property that defines an ability of a powdered material to flow, related to cohesion. Powder flowability depends...
- of the divide flows into the Pacific Ocean, whereas water on the other side flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Not all precipitation flows directly into rivers;...
- Flowable is an open-source workflow engine written in Java that can execute business processes described in BPMN 2.0. It is an actively maintained fork...
- flows are around one to ten cubic kilometres (1⁄4–2+1⁄2 cu mi) and travel for several kilometres. Flows usually consist of two parts: the basal flow hugs...
- flows. Applications of potential flow include: the outer flow field for aerofoils, water waves, electroosmotic flow, and groundwater flow. For flows (or...
- dome forms on an inclined surface it can flow in short thick flows called coulées (dome flows). These flows often travel only a few kilometres from the...
- total of all flows involved or a subset of those flows. Within cash flow analysis, 3 types of cash flow are present and used for the cash flow statement:...
- examples of vector flows include the geodesic flow, the Hamiltonian flow, the Ricci flow, the mean curvature flow, and Anosov flows. Flows may also be defined...