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flow
A	noun
	1	flow, stream
			the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚motion; movement; move ╚flow, stream ╚flood; overflow; outpouring ╚spill; spillage; release
	2	flow, flowing
			the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚movement; motion ╚change of location; travel ╚flow, flowing ╚dripping; drippage ╚overflow; runoff; overspill ╚freshet; spate ╚current; stream ╚airflow; air flow; flow of air ╚backflow; backflowing ╚flood ╚ebb; reflux ╚fountain; jet
	3	stream, flow, current
			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"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚arrangement ╚ordering; order; ordination ╚series ╚course; line ╚stream, flow, current
	4	flow
			any uninterrupted stream or discharge
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚process ╚natural process; natural action; action; activity ╚flow ╚outflow; effluence; efflux ╚inflow; influx ╚flowage ╚filling ╚streamline flow ╚turbulent flow ╚slipstream; airstream; race; backwash; wash
	5	menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
			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
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚process ╚organic process; biological process ╚bodily process; body process; bodily function; activity ╚discharge; emission; expelling ╚menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow ╚oligomenorrhea ╚menorrhagia; hypermenorrhea
	6	stream, flow
			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"
		Category Tree: state ╚motion ╚stream, flow
	7	flow, flow rate, rate of flow
			the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚magnitude relation; quantitative relation ╚rate ╚flow, flow rate, rate of flow ╚cardiac output
B	verb
	1	menstruate, flow
			undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
		Category Tree: discharge; expel; eject; release ╚shed blood; bleed; hemorrhage ╚menstruate, flow
	2	flow
			cover or swamp with water
		Category Tree: touch; adjoin; meet; contact ╚cover; spread over ╚flood ╚flow ╚lave; lap; wash
	3	hang, fall, flow
			fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

	4	flow, flux
			move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
		Category Tree: move ╚flow, flux ╚transpire; transpirate ╚ripple; ruffle; riffle; cockle; undulate
	5	run, flow, feed, course
			move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
		Category Tree: move ╚run, flow, feed, course ╚circulate ╚tide; surge ╚jet; gush ╚flush
	6	flow
			cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

	7	flow
			be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
		Category Tree: exist; be ╚flow

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