flow /floʊ/
1. the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
2. the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
synset: flow, flow_rate, rate_of_flow
3. the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
4. any uninterrupted stream or discharge
synset: flow
5. 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"
6. 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"
7. 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 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
synset: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
1. move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
2. move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
synset: run, flow, feed, course
3. cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
synset: flow
4. be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
synset: flow
5. fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
synset: flow
7. undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
synset: menstruate, flow
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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