Definition: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Similar words: motion, move, movement
Definition: the act of changing location from one place to another
Usage: police controlled the motion of the crowd; the movement of people from the farms to the cities; his move put him directly in my path
Definition: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
Usage: the raft floated downstream on the current; he felt a stream of air; the hose ejected a stream of water
Synonyms: 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
Definition: a connected series of events or actions or developments
Usage: the government took a firm course; historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
Synonyms: stream, watercourse
Definition: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
Similar words: body of water, water
Definition: the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
Usage: they invaded our territorial waters; they were sitting by the water's edge
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
Synonyms: stream
Definition: exude profusely
Usage: She was streaming with sweat; His nose streamed blood
Similar words: transude, ooze, ooze out, exudate, exude
Definition: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
Usage: exude sweat through the pores
Synonyms: swarm, teem, stream, pullulate, pour
Definition: move in large numbers
Usage: people were pouring out of the theater; beggars pullulated in the plaza
Similar words: crowd, crowd together
Definition: to gather together in large numbers
Usage: men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
Definition: flow freely and abundantly
Usage: Tears streamed down her face
Similar words: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Synonyms: stream
Definition: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
Usage: their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind
Similar words: drift, float, blow, be adrift
Definition: be in motion due to some air or water current
Usage: The leaves were blowing in the wind; the boat drifted on the lake; The sailboat was adrift on the open sea; the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
Definition: rain heavily
Usage: Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
Similar words: rain, rain down
Definition: precipitate as rain
Usage: If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding