English dictionary
flow
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
noun
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
noun
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
noun
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
noun
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
noun
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
noun
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
verb
- undergo menstruation
verb
- cover or swamp with water
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
verb
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
verb
- move along, of liquids
verb
- cause to flow
verb
- be abundantly present
Example sentences
two streams of development run through American history
stream of consciousness
the flow of thought
the current of history
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
{'source': 'Hippocrates', 'text': 'a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped'}
{'source': 'Aristotle', 'text': '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'}
a stream of people emptied from the terminal
the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
She started menstruating at the age of 11
This dress hangs well
Her long black hair flowed down her back
The crowd flowed out of the stadium
Water flowed into the cave
the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
The artist flowed the washes on the paper
The champagne flowed at the wedding