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  Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl[=o]d); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
     OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
     float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
     [root]80. Cf. Flood.]
     1. 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.
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     2. To become liquid; to melt.
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              The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
                                                    lxiv. 3.
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     3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
        and economy.
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              Those thousand decencies that daily flow
              From all her words and actions.       --Milton.
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     4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
        as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly
        to the ear; to be uttered easily.
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              Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
        run or flow over; to be copious.
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              In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                    --Joel iii.
                                                    18.
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              The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
              influence of the flowing bowl.        --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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     6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
        locks.
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              The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
                                                    Hamilton.
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     7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
        flows twice in twenty-four hours.
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              The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                    --Shak.
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     8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
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  Flowing \Flow"ing\, a.
     That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb);
     gliding along smoothly; copious.
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     Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant
        by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or
        cells. --Knight.
  
     Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be
        drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.
  
     Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened
        to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten.
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  Flowing \Flow"ing\,
     a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.
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  Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl[=o]d); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
     OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
     float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
     [root]80. Cf. Flood.]
     1. 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.
  
     2. To become liquid; to melt.
  
              The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
                                                    lxiv. 3.
  
     3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
        and economy.
  
              Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all
              her words and actions.                --Milton.
  
     4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
        as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly
        to the ear; to be uttered easily.
  
              Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
     5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
        run or flow over; to be copious.
  
              In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                    --Joel iii.
                                                    18.
  
              The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
              influence of the flowing bowl.        --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
  
     6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
        locks.
  
              The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
                                                    Hamilton.
  
     7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
        flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  
              The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

  Flowing \Flow"ing\, a.
     That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb);
     gliding along smoothly; copious.
  
     Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant
        by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or
        cells. --Knight.
  
     Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be
        drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.
  
     Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened
        to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten.

  Flowing \Flow"ing\,
     a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.

  flowing
       adj 1: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth
              stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid
              grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose" [syn: fluent,
              fluid, liquid, smooth]
       2: (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic
          pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure" [syn: artesian]
          [ant: subartesian]
       3: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through
          the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the
          concert hall" [syn: streaming]
       4: (of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook" [syn: streaming]
       n : the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn:
            flow]

  flowing
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 ρέων, αυτός που ρέω
     2 μακρύς, χυτός
     Αγγλικά n.
     η ροή

  flowing
     a.
     1 Tending to flow.
     2 Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
     n.
     The action of the verb '''to flow'''
     vb.
     (present participle of en flow nocat=1)

  flowing
     a.
     1 Tending to flow.
     2 Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
     n.
     The action of the verb '''to flow'''
     vb.
     (present participle of en flow nocat=1)

  flowing
     a.
     1 Tending to flow.
     2 Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
     n.
     The action of the verb '''to flow'''
     vb.
     (present participle of en flow nocat=1)

  flowing
     a.
     1 Tending to flow.
     2 Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
     n.
     The action of the verb '''to flow'''
     vb.
     (present participle of en flow nocat=1)

  flowing
     Englanti a.
     1 virtaava
     2 sujuva
     3 soljuva
     Englanti n.
     virtaus, virta, virtaaminen

  flowing
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en flow ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb flow)

  Flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  التدفّق

  flowing //ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ// //ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ// 
  гладък, плавен
  moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  tekoucí

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  fließend, strömend
   see: flow, flowed, everything flows
  

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  flüssig, fließend 
        "a flowing/fluid style"  - ein flüssiger Stil

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  mündend
   see: flow into, flowed, Eventually the river flows into the sea.
  

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  rinnend, strömend, fließend
     Synonyms: running, streaming
  
   see: run, stream, flow, run, streamed, flowed, it runs, it ran, running nose
  

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  
  ριχτός

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  ispisan, koji teče

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  1. kecsesen hullámos
  2. ömlô
  3. omló
  4. folyékony
  5. áramlás
  6. folyamatos
  7. könnyen folyó
  8. ömlés
  9. folyás
  10. leomló
  11. kecsesen hajló
  12. folyó
  13. lengô
  14. hömpölygés

  flowing /flˈəʊɪŋ/
  leve

  
/ˈfɫoʊɪŋ/

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowing":
     affluent, ascending, autograph, autographic, axial, back,
     back-flowing, backward, balanced, calligraphic, cascading,
     chirographic, concinnate, concinnous, confluent, coursing, cursive,
     dangling, decurrent, defluent, dependent, depending, descending,
     diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, easy, effortless,
     elegant, engrossed, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, facile,
     falling, falling loosely, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic,
     fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, going,
     graceful, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
     gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging, harmonious,
     holograph, holographic, hung, in longhand, in shorthand,
     in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, juicy, liquid, liquidy,
     longhand, manuscript, mazy, meandering, measured, mounting,
     on paper, ordered, orderly, passing, penciled, pendent, pending,
     pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, penned, pensile,
     pleasing, plunging, pouring, printed, profluent, progressive,
     racing, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising,
     rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing, sappy,
     scriptorial, scriptural, serpentine, shorthand, sideward, sinking,
     sluggish, smooth, smooth-sounding, soaring, streaming,
     stylographic, succulent, surging, surgy, suspended, sweet,
     swinging, symmetrical, tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward,
     vortical, watery, weeping, written
  
  

  a. 流动的,如流的,平滑的;

     a. 流动的,如流的,平滑的