flow
English
Noun
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
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The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
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(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
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Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebb
Verb
(en verb )
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
To proceed; to issue forth.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
* Milton
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn’t flow .
* Dryden
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
* Prof. Wilson
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
To hang loosely and wave.
- a flowing”’ mantle; ”’flowing locks
* A. Hamilton
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
* Shakespeare
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
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flux
Noun
(es)
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
* Arbuthnot
- By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.
A state of ongoing change.
- The schedule is in flux at the moment.
* Trench
- Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
* Felton
- Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux .
A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
(physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
- That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
(archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
(archaic) diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body
The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Antonyms
* (state of ongoing change) stasis
Derived terms
* black flux
* electric flux
* fluxlike
* luminous flux
* magnetic flux
* white flux
Verb
To use flux.
- You have to flux the joint before soldering.
To melt.
To flow as a liquid.
Adjective
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Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
* a” 1677 , (Isaac Barrow), “On Contentment”, Sermon XL, in ”The Theological Works , Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375
- The flux nature of all things here.
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