[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flow \flow\, v. t.
   1. to cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to
      inundate; to flood.
      1913 webster

   2. to cover with varnish.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flow \flow\, n.
   1. a stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of
      water; a flow of blood.
      1913 webster

   2. a continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of
      words.
      1913 webster

   3. any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought,
      diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady
      movement of a river; a stream.
      1913 webster

            the feast of reason and the flow of soul. --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. the tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the
      shore. see ebb and flow, under ebb.
      1913 webster

   5. a low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow
      moss and flow bog. scot. --jamieson.
      1913 webster
see also:
ebb and flow ebb flow moss flow bog 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flow \flow\ fl=o, obs.
   imp. sing. of fly, v. i. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
fly 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flow \flow\ fl=o, v. i. imp.  p. p. flowed fl=od; p.
   pr.  vb. n. flowing. as. fl=owan; akin to d. vloeijen,
   ohg. flawen to wash, icel. fl=oa to deluge, gr. plw`ein to
   float, sail, and prob. ultimately to e. float, fleet.
   root80. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to become liquid; to melt.
      1913 webster

            the mountains flowed down at thy presence. --is.
                                                  lxiv. 3.
      1913 webster

   3. to proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
      and economy.
      1913 webster

            those thousand decencies that daily flow
            from all her words and actions.       --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   5. to have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
      run or flow over; to be copious.
      1913 webster

            in that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                  --joel iii.
                                                  18.
      1913 webster

            the exhilaration of a night that needed not the
            influence of the flowing bowl.        --prof.
                                                  wilson.
      1913 webster

   6. to hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
      locks.
      1913 webster

            the imperial purple flowing in his train. --a.
                                                  hamilton.
      1913 webster

   7. to rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
      flows twice in twenty-four hours.
      1913 webster

            the river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. to discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
      1913 webster
see also:
flowed flowing flood 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flow
     n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids liquids or gases syn:
           flowing
     2: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time syn: flow
        rate, rate of flow
     3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
        syn: stream
     4: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
     5: 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" syn: stream
     6: dominant course suggestive of running water of successive
        events or ideas; "two streams of development run through
        american history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
        thought"; "the current of history" syn: stream, current
     7: 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 syn: menstruation,
         menses, menstruum, catamenia, period
     v 1: move or progress freely as if in a stream; "the crowd flowed
          out of the stadium" syn: flux
     2: move along, of liquids; "water flowed into the cave"; "the
        missouri feeds into the mississippi" syn: run, feed,
        course
     3: cause to flow; "the artist flowed the washes on the paper"
     4: be abundantly present; "the champagne flowed at the wedding"
     5: fall or flow in a certain way; "this dress hangs well"; "her
        long black hair flowed down her back" syn: hang, fall
     6: cover or swamp with water
     7: undergo menstruation; "she started menstruating at the age
        of 11" syn: menstruate
see also:
flowing flow rate rate of flow stream current menstruation 
menses menstruum catamenia period flux 
run feed course hang fall 
menstruate 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

487 moby thesaurus words for "flow":
   atticism, brownian movement, abound, abundance, accrue from,
   advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air flow, ample sufficiency,
   ampleness, amplitude, angular motion, appropriateness, arise,
   arise from, ascend, ascending, ascent, avalanche, axial motion,
   back, back up, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bag,
   be contingent on, be due to, be effortless, be painless, begin,
   blow out, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, brim,
   bristle with, bubble, bud from, budge, bumper crop, burble, career,
   cascade, change, change place, chasteness, chastity, chylifaction,
   chylification, circle, circulate, clarity, classicalism,
   classicism, clearness, climb, climbing, coast, coasting, come,
   come from, come out of, comeliness, commute, concourse, confluence,
   conflux, continuance, continuation, continue, continuity,
   copiousness, correctness, course, cover, cover ground, crawl,
   crawl with, creep with, crosscurrent, current, daggle, dangle,
   defluxion, deluge, depend, depend on, derive from, descend,
   descend from, descending, descent, dignity, direct tide,
   directness, discharge, discrimination, disembogue, distinction,
   downflow, downpour, downward motion, drabble, drag, draggle, drain,
   drain out, drape, drift, driftage, droop, ease, ebb, ebb and flow,
   ebb tide, ebbing, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection,
   elapse, elegance, elegancy, elimination, emanate, emanate from,
   emerge from, emission, emit, empty, endure, ensue from, excess,
   excretion, exhaust, expire, extravagance, extravasation, extrusion,
   exuberance, exuberate, exudation, facility, fall, fare, fare forth,
   felicitousness, felicity, fertility, fetch, find vent, finish,
   fittingness, flap, flight, flit, flood, flood tide, flop,
   flow back, flow from, flow in, flow on, flow out, flowing,
   flowing periods, fluency, fluidity, fluidness, flush, flux,
   flux and reflux, fluxility, fluxion, fly, foison, follow from,
   forward motion, full measure, full tide, fullness, gang,
   generosity, generousness, germinate from, get over,
   give no trouble, give off, glide, gliding, glissade, go, go along,
   go around, go by, go easily, go like clockwork, go on, go round,
   go sideways, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility,
   great abundance, great plenty, grow from, grow out of, gurgle,
   gush, gush out, gyrate, hang, hang down, hang on, head, hie,
   high tide, high water, hinge on, ice-skate, inflood, inflow,
   inpour, inrush, issue, issue from, jet, juiciness, lactation,
   lactescence, landslide, lapse, last, lavishness, liberality,
   liberalness, limpidity, liquefaction, liquidness, lop, lots,
   low tide, low water, lucidity, lunar tide, luxuriance, make,
   maximum, milkiness, mill run, millrace, moisture, more than enough,
   mount, mounting, move, move along, move on, move over, movement,
   much, myriad, myriads, naturalness, neap, neap tide, neatness, nod,
   numerousness, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, onward course,
   opposite tide, opulence, opulency, originate, originate in,
   outflow, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overflowing, overspread,
   pass, pass by, passage, pellucidity, pend, perspicuity, plainness,
   plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plunge,
   plunging, poetry, polish, pour, pour in, pour out,
   present no difficulties, press on, prevalence, proceed,
   proceed from, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion,
   progress, progression, proliferate, propriety, pullulate, purity,
   purl, quantities, race, radial motion, rain, random motion,
   refinement, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression,
   regurgitate, repleteness, repletion, restraint, retrogress,
   retrogression, rheuminess, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot,
   riotousness, rip, ripple, riptide, rise, rising, roll, roll on,
   roller-skate, rotate, run, run its course, run on, run out,
   run over, run smoothly, rush, sag, sail, sailing, sappiness,
   sashay, scads, secretion, seemliness, sequence, series, serosity,
   set, shift, shower, sideslip, sideward motion, simplicity, sink,
   sinking, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim, sled,
   sledding, sleigh, slide, sliding, slip, slipping, slither,
   slithering, sluice, sluice out, smoothness, soar, soaring,
   solar tide, spate, spew, spew out, spill, spin, spout, spout out,
   spread, spring, spring from, spring tide, sprout from, spurt,
   squirt, stem, stem from, sternway, stir, straightforwardness,
   stream, subside, subsiding, substantiality, substantialness,
   succession, succulence, superabundance, supply, suppuration, surge,
   surge back, swag, swarm, swarm with, sweep, sweeping, swing, swirl,
   taste, tastefulness, teem, teem with, teemingness, terseness,
   thalassometer, tidal amplitude, tidal current, tidal current chart,
   tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge,
   tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway, tobogganing, trail,
   traject, trajet, transudation, travel, trend, trickle, turbulence,
   turn on, unaffectedness, undercurrent, undertow, upward motion,
   vomit forth, wane, water flow, wateriness, wayfare, wealth, weep,
   well, well out, wend, whirl, work well

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

flow
     
         a companion utility to floppy by julian james bunn
        .  flow allows the user to produce
        various reports on the structure of fortran 77 code, such as
        flow diagrams and common block tables.  it runs under vms,
        unix, cms.
     
        posted to comp.sources.misc volume 31.
     
        1995-03-14
     
     
see also:
floppy fortran 77 flow diagram vms unix cms 

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