Meaning of flow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
   Scotland
2. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
   countable, uncountable
3. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
   countable, uncountable
4. volume
5. A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
   countable, uncountable
6. funds
7. The rising movement of the tide.
   countable, uncountable
8. caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)
9. Smoothness or continuity.
   countable, uncountable
10. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
    countable, uncountable
11. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
    countable, uncountable
12. A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
    countable, uncountable
13. The emission of blood during menstruation.
    countable, uncountable
14. The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
    countable, uncountable
15. The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.”

“The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.”

“Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.”

“Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.”

“The point about flow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experienced flow, the happier they were." But the second is that entering flow actually improves performance.”

“Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.”

“The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.”

“Now shawty said she feelin' my style, she feelin' my flow […] / My flow, my show brought me the dough / That bought me all my fancy things”

“login flow”

“search flow”

“I'm setting up event tracking for a pretty standard, multi-step signup flow, and I'm wondering [...]”

“[…] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of these flowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place.”

“Ye'll stick in some flow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow”

“Had been roughly laid with bog-wood dug from the flowes,”

“Dandering o'er ferney knowes, [...] Springing o'er bogs an' flowes, [...]”

“If dey wirna a day apo' da flow dan he [it] wis nae man's bishaness.”

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