Definition of flow:

• 1.change over time. 2. movement of goods in a stream from raw to finished product without any backflow, stoppages or waste materials.
• To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
• A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
• To move or run, as a fluid; to melt; to proceed or issue; to abound; to glide along smoothly; to rise, as the tide; to circulate, as the blood; to move in a stream.
• To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• To cover with varnish.
• To overflow or inundate.
• To cover with water.
• To overflow; flood.
• To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
• To become liquid; to melt.
• To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
• To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
• To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
• To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
• To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
• To rise, as the tide; - opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty- four hours.
• To run or spread, as water; circulate; glide; rise, as the tide; melt; issue forth.
• To run, as water; to rise, as the tide; to move in a stream, as air: to glide smoothly; to circulate, as the blood; to abound; to hang loose and waving; ( B.) to melt.
• To run, as a liquid; rise, as the tide; be poured forth; abound; hang loose and waving.
• be abundantly present; " The champagne flowed at the wedding"
• undergo menstruation; " She started menstruating at the age of 11"
• cover or swamp with water
• cause to flow; " The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
• fall or flow in a certain way; " This dress hangs well"; " Her long black hair flowed down her back"
• imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
• 1. To bleed from the uterus less profusely than in flooding. 2. The menstrual discharge. 3. The rise in the opsonic index at the beginning of the positive phase.
• To move, as a stream; glide; issue; result.
• To rise, as the tide; abound.
• To move along, as water; to run, as a liquid; to issue, as from a source; to glide along smoothly; to hang loose and waving, as a mantle.
• 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 appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"-- Aristotle
• the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
• any uninterrupted stream or discharge
• 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"
• A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
• Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
• The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
• A low- lying piece of watery land; - called also flow moss and flow bog.
• A current or stream; the rise of the tide.
• A stream or current; the setting in of the tide from the ocean; abundance; copiousness; free expression.
• A stream; current; rising tide; copiousness.
• The act of flowing; a stream or current; incoming of the tide; a copious outpouring.
• A stream; a current; the rise of the tide; abundance; copiousness; free out flow.
• Rise of water, as opposed to a fall; a stream; copiousness, as a flow of language; sudden plenty or abundance.

Usage examples for flow

1. He said it didn't look reasonable to him that bilin' hot water would flow out of the cold ground, and he knowed they had told stories about it.  Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley

2. " 'Twill find fresh force to flow a brief while longer.  Thelma by Marie Corelli

3. He was a mile and a half from land, the tide would soon flow, and if the geese were about, he might be away some time.  Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss