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1. flow - noun

· the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

Synonym(s): flowing

Hypernym(s): change_of_location, travel

2. flow - noun

· the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

Synonym(s): flow_rate, rate_of_flow

Hypernym(s): rate

3. flow - noun

· the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

Synonym(s): stream

Hypernym(s): motion, movement, move

4. flow - noun

· any uninterrupted stream or discharge

Hypernym(s): natural_process, natural_action, action, activity

5. flow - noun

· 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"

Synonym(s): stream

Hypernym(s): motion

6. flow - noun

· 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"

Synonym(s): stream, current

Hypernym(s): course, line

7. flow - noun

· 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 unless 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

Synonym(s): menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period

Hypernym(s): discharge, emission, expelling

8. flow - verb

· move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

Synonym(s): flux

Hypernym(s): move

9. flow - verb

· move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

Synonym(s): run, feed, course

Hypernym(s): move

10. flow - verb

· cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"