Definition: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Definition: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
Main entry: stream, current, flow
Definition: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
Usage: two streams of development run through American history; stream of consciousness; the flow of thought; the current of history
Main entry: flow
Definition: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Main entry: catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, flow, period
Definition: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Usage: 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
Definition: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
Usage: a stream of people emptied from the terminal; the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
Main entry: flow, flow rate, rate of flow
Definition: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
Main entry: flow, menstruate
Definition: undergo menstruation
Usage: She started menstruating at the age of 11
Main entry: flow
Definition: cover or swamp with water
Definition: fall or flow in a certain way
Usage: This dress hangs well; Her long black hair flowed down her back
Definition: move or progress freely as if in a stream
Usage: The crowd flowed out of the stadium
Main entry: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Main entry: flow
Definition: cause to flow
Usage: The artist flowed the washes on the paper
Main entry: flow
Definition: be abundantly present
Usage: The champagne flowed at the wedding