flow
flow is a 4-letter English word with 30 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
- intransitive verb. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
- intransitive verb. To become liquid; to melt.
- intransitive verb. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
- intransitive verb. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
- intransitive verb. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
- intransitive verb. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
- intransitive verb. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- intransitive verb. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
- transitive verb. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- transitive verb. To cover with varnish.
- noun. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
- noun. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
- noun. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
- noun. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
- noun. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
- 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
"two streams of development run through American history"
"stream of consciousness"
- noun. any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- noun. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause--Hippocrates--Aristotle
"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
"a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"
- 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"
- noun. the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- verb. undergo menstruation
"She started menstruating at the age of 11"
- verb. cover or swamp with water
- verb. fall or flow in a certain way
"This dress hangs well"
"Her long black hair flowed down her back"
- verb. move or progress freely as if in a stream
"The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
- verb. move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"
"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- verb. cause to flow
"The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
- verb. be abundantly present
"The champagne flowed at the wedding"
Synonyms
stream, flowing, current, catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period, menstruate, fall, hang, flux, course, feed, run
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flow:
Common word forms
flows, flowed, flower, flowing, flowable
Words from these letters
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