flow meaning
EN
[fləʊ] [floʊ] [-əʊ] 
US WFlow
- Flow may refer to:
- NounPLflows
- A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.
- A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
- VerbSGflowsPRflowingPT, PPflowed
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- a flowing mantle; flowing locks
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- [ … ] the Spouse scavenged and sold scrap metal for a fistful of lire, ate horse meat without censure and lugged straw baskets home from the neighborhood osteria, where chianti flowed from spigots.
- The Flow of Attention graph’s choppy curves showed weak visual connectedness which means viewers had trouble following the story and explained why they could not playback the ad’s key message.
- We prove Calegari's conjecture that every quasigeodesic flow on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has closed orbits..
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Self-shrinkers are hypersurfaces that shrink homothetically under mean curvature flow; these solitons model the singularities of the flow.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of flow in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "flow" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.