Word Finder - flow

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A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts

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The movement of a real or figurative fluid.

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A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.

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The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.

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The rising movement of the tide.

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Smoothness or continuity.

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The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.

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The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.

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Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.

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A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).

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A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.

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The emission of blood during menstruation.

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Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.

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The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.

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The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.

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To move as a fluid from one position to another.

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Rivers flow from springs and lakes.

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To proceed; to issue forth.

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Wealth flows from industry and economy.

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To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

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The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.

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To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.

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To hang loosely and wave.

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a flowing mantle; flowing locks

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To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.

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The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

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To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

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To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

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To cover with varnish.

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To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

Quint felt the warmth flow into his face.

Tears continued to flow as her attention shifted back to Matthew.

She struggled to pull herself out of the cabin, against the flow of cold river water.

They all flow naturally from our daily and historical experience.

The few supplies she had would barely last the night, especially since the flow was unusually heavy.

She has an excellent 'ear' for the flow of sentences.

He tried in vain to stop the water flow.

The flow of energy between them, though, was open and warm.

He does flow over the top with flattery.

When the stream became visible, the flow was light, a far cry from the raging torrent Dean remembered from late spring when the melting snow increased the flow of the Uncompahgre a hundred fold.

Even our spy does not know the source of magic that makes the Springs flow pure with life.

When the frost comes out in the spring, and even in a thawing day in the winter, the sand begins to flow down the slopes like lava, sometimes bursting out through the snow and overflowing it where no sand was to be seen before.

With no one looking on, she allowed the tears to flow freely.

Prosperity requires civil liberties, prosperity thrives under lower taxes, and prosperity shrivels as wars disrupt the free flow of labor and capital.

The flow of her thoughts suddenly stopped.

As soon as Pierre began to say anything that did not fit in with that aim, the channel was removed and the water could flow to waste.

However, on this, the shaded west side, aided by the steady flow from the tapped pipe, massive icicles, bulges and clusters coated the side.

He drew her into his body, reveling in the flow of her cool energy.

This is starkly different than if violence breaks out in a distant, unreal place where the only flow of information is from official sources.

The fingers and toes flow to their extent from the thawing mass of the body.

The flow of energy soothed her, and she relaxed against him.

She sang directly to Sarah and the tears started to flow quickly.

All draw off services are taken off from the flow pipe which connects the boiler with the tank.

Among its many small tributaries are the Catuche, Caroata and Anauco, which flow down through the city from the north and give it a natural surface drainage.

Notable examples exist, but the flow of history in this regard has rendered its verdict.

I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death.

Whatever the case, they had no flow together.

The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.

She didn't know what he was, only that the ebb and flow of magic and energy between them felt … natural.

His hands were rough and calloused, but his touch was light and opened the comforting flow of energy between them.

He sealed his skin around the tube, forced the flow downward, and placed his hands on her, forcing her body to accept his blood.

He ceased drinking, but still allowed venom to flow freely until she finally loosened her grip, exhausted.

Though the surface of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time.

In whatever direction a ship moves, the flow of the waves it cuts will always be noticeable ahead of it.

Gabriel sat in silent thought, comforted by the ebb and flow of the waves.

The fragrant ocean breeze was chilly as it brushed his skin, and his movements fell into the rhythm of the ebb and flow of waves.

From this point the " return " pipe drops, usually at the same rate as the flow pipe rises; and in due course the water reaches its starting point, the boiler, and is again heated and again circulated through the system.

Radiators should not be fixed directly on to the main heating pipe, but always on branches of smaller diameter leading from the flow pipe to one end of the radiator and back to the main return pipe from the other end; they may then be easily controlled by a valve placed on the branch from the flow pipe.

The three great rivers that form the La Plata system - the Paraguay, Parana and Uruguay - have their sources in the highlands of Brazil and flow southward through a great continental depression, two of them forming eastern boundary lines, and one of them, the Parana, flowing across the eastern part of the republic. The northern part of Argentina, therefore, drains eastward from the mountains to these rivers, except where some great inland depression gives rise to a drainage having no outlet to the sea, and except, also, in the " mesopotamia " region, where small streams flow westward into the Parana and eastward into the Uruguay.

From this point a gap (the troue dEpinal) was left, so as in some sort to canalize the flow of invasion (General Bonnal), until the upper Moselle was reached at Epinal (q.v.).

Moratalla is built on a mountainous peninsula, almost surrounded by the Grande and Benamor, small rivers which meet and flow eastward to join the Segura.

The so-called rivers have a strong flow only after heavy rains, and some of them do not ever reach the main drainage line.

More remarkable still, over large tracts of country the water seems disposed to flow away from, rather than to, the river-beds.

This underground network of old river-beds underlying the great alluvial plains must be filled to repletion before flood waters will flow over the surface.

In Queensland to the 30th of June 1904, 973 wells had been sunk, of which 596 were flowing wells, and the total flow was 62,635,722 cub.

In South Australia there are 38 deep bores, from 20 of which there is a flow of 6,250,000 gallons a day.

The lines of flow in this method are radial.

From these weirs flow canals altogether about 127 m.