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: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
Similar words: change of location, travel
Definition: a movement through space that changes the location of something
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: flow
Definition: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Similar words: natural action, natural process, action, activity
Definition: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
Usage: the action of natural forces; volcanic activity
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: discharge, expelling, emission
Definition: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
Usage: the discharge of pus
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: flow, flow rate, rate of flow
Definition: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
Similar words: rate
Definition: a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
Usage: they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour; the rate of change was faster than expected
Synonyms: flow, menstruate
Definition: undergo menstruation
Usage: She started menstruating at the age of 11
Similar words: shed blood, hemorrhage, bleed
Definition: lose blood from one's body
Synonyms: flow
Definition: cover or swamp with water
Similar words: flood
Definition: cover with liquid, usually water
Usage: The swollen river flooded the village; The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
Definition: move or progress freely as if in a stream
Usage: The crowd flowed out of the stadium
Similar words: move
Definition: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
Usage: He moved his hand slightly to the right
Synonyms: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Similar words: move
Definition: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
Usage: He moved his hand slightly to the right
Synonyms: flow
Definition: be abundantly present
Usage: The champagne flowed at the wedding