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Etymology [edit]
From Old English flōwan, from Proto-Germanic *flōanan, from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-. Cognate from Proto-Indo-European (via Latin) with fluent, flux.
flow (countable and uncountable; plural flows)
- The movement of a fluid.
- 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) The state of being at one with.
Antonyms [edit]
- (movement of the tide): ebb
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Translations [edit]
the rising movement of the tide
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flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
Translations [edit]
to move as a fluid
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- Aromanian: cur (rup)
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- Breton: deverañ (br), berañ (br)
- Bulgarian: тека (bg) (teka), теч (bg) (teč)
- Burmese: စီး (my) (si:)
- Catalan: fluir (ca)
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- Romansch: fluir (rm)
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- Slovene: teči (sl)
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- Swahili: mkondo (sw)
- Swedish: strömma (sv), flyta (sv)
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- Walloon: couler (wa)
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