flow
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flow/fləʊ/
▶verb
- 1 move steadily and continuously in a current or stream.
- 2 (of the sea or a tidal river) move towards the land; rise. Compare with ebb.
- 3 move or issue forth steadily and freely.
■ (often as adj. flowing) hang loosely in a graceful manner: a long flowing gown.
- 4 (of a solid) undergo a permanent change of shape under stress, without melting.
- 1 the action or process of flowing.
- 2 the rise of a tide or a river.
- 3 a steady, continuous stream: the flow of traffic.
- 4 Scottish a watery swamp; a morass.
– phrases
go with the flow informal be relaxed and accept a situation.
in full flow talking or performing fluently and enthusiastically.
go with the flow informal be relaxed and accept a situation.
in full flow talking or performing fluently and enthusiastically.
– derivatives
flowingly adverb.
flowingly adverb.
'flow' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic impedance
- advection
- affluent
- afflux
- airflow
- airlock
- ampere
- articulation
- asthenosphere
- autorotation
- baffle
- beam
- bicker
- billow
- block
- blockage
- bombard
- bottleneck
- braid
- bypass
- cadence
- cash flow
- catarrh
- check valve
- circuit
- circuit-breaker
- circumfluent
- clepsydra
- cock-a-hoop
- commutator
- confluence
- coronary thrombosis
- coulee
- coulis
- course
- cumec
- current
- cusec
- diarrhoea
- diode
- discharge
- discounted cash flow
- disembogue
- draw
- drivel
- dry
- ebb
- effluence
- effluvium
- efflux

