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Synonyms for flow
floʊflow
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Wiktionary
flownoun
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
flow
To rise is to move up or upward whether slowly or quickly, whether through the least or greatest distance; the waves rise; the mists rise; the river rises after heavy rains; as said of persons, to rise is to come to an erect position after kneeling, sitting, reclining, or lying down; as, to rise from a sick-bed; my friend rose as I entered; the guests rose to depart; so a deliberative assembly or a committee is said to rise when it breaks up a session; a sun or star rises when to our apprehension it comes above the horizon and begins to go up the sky. To ascend is to go far upward, and is often used in a stately sense; as, Christ ascended to heaven. The shorter form rise is now generally preferred to the longer form arise, except in poetic or elevated style. The sun rises or arises; the river springs at a bound from the foot of the glacier and flows through the lands to the ocean. Smoke issues from a chimney and ascends toward the sky. Light and heat emanate from the sun.
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arise, ascend, emanate, issue, proceed, rise, springAntonyms:
decline, descend, drop, fall, go down, set, settle, sinkPreposition:
Rise from slumber; rise to duty; rise at the summons; we rose with the lark.
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Princeton's WordNet
flow, flowingnoun
the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
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current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, flow rate, streamflow, flow rate, rate of flownoun
the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
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current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, flow rate, streamflow, streamnoun
the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
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current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, watercourse, flow rate, streamflownoun
any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Synonyms:
current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, flow rate, streamstream, flownoun
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"
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current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, watercourse, flow rate, streamstream, flow, currentnoun
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"
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current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, watercourse, flow rate, electric current, streammenstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flowverb
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
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menstruum, flow rate, current, flowing, menses, menstruation, period of time, full point, stream, full stop, catamenia, time period, stop, period, point, geological period, rate of flowflow, fluxverb
move or progress freely as if in a stream
"The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
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menstruate, conflate, blend, liquefy, coalesce, merge, combine, mix, commingle, flux, feed, fuse, run, fall, meld, liquify, immix, course, hangrun, flow, feed, courseverb
move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
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course, operate, feed in, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, eat, flux, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, fall, feast, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, prey, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, fertilise, fertilize, run for, black market, give, persist, incline, hang, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, menstruate, meltflowverb
cause to flow
"The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
flowverb
be abundantly present
"The champagne flowed at the wedding"
hang, fall, flowverb
fall or flow in a certain way
"This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
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accrue, menstruate, shine, go down, feed, diminish, come down, strike, devolve, precipitate, settle, string up, advert, light, lessen, run, cling, attend, pass, descend, come, fall, hang, return, hang up, give ear, flux, pay heed, decrease, course, fall downflowverb
cover or swamp with water
menstruate, flowverb
undergo menstruation
"She started menstruating at the age of 11"
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
flowverb
Synonyms:
stream, run, pour, roll on, sweep alongflowverb
Synonyms:
issue, emanate, proceed, come, grow, arise, follow, spring, result, be derivedflowverb
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glide, move along easily or smoothlyflowverb
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wave, float, undulate, waver, hang looselyflowverb
flowverb
flownoun
flownoun
Synonyms:
abundance, copiousness
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "flow":
flows, flux, stream, debit, influx, fluxes, circulation, movement, streamflow, inflow, runoff, flowrate, throughput, streams, mobile, fluidity, discharge, outflow, debiting, movements, traffic, current, flow-control, workflow, capacitor, flowing, flood, liquidity, dfd, streamflows, flowmeter, run-off, drainage, flow
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How to use flow in a sentence?
It will be impossible to capture any true measure of contamination, given the huge flow of water when they were doing this testing, the real question the state is not addressing is if coal ash particles got into the river and the extent of that.
It's still a small town. It's still a small town atmosphere and everybody is connected here, quite honestly, this area has gone through a lot between the Thomas Fire and then right after that the debris flow from Montecito and Carpenteria where people were killed, and now this.
I've always kind of gone with the flow, and then there's been times when things would get a little quiet. I went through that experience where I'm like,' OK, I've made this choice to be on my own. Let's see what's going to happen,' and go through struggle and the passion that creates, you know, to get out there. And next thing you know, I was working for MTV,' Baywatch,' I was getting booked for movies.
In terms of the flow that we're hearing about ... it's not panic selling of euros, we're hearing it's corporate flow, some fund flow, some speculative flow. None of it in itself is particularly outsized but it's all going in the same direction.
Im in the meeting and giving my input like: Well, why are yall spending this money here? Like, why do you need new badges and stuff? it was kind of crazy, but those things are set in place for a reason, to make the city better and make everything flow much better in the city. So, theres a need for it. But you know people outside looking in, they dont understand that. Theyre like, Well, wheres our money going as taxpayers? Your money is going really where it needs to go and for stuff the city needs.
Translations for flow
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- vloei, stroom, loopAfrikaans
- تدفقArabic
- цячыBelarusian
- лея се, прилив, течение, тека, потокBulgarian
- beradur, deverañ, berañ, lanvBreton
- flux, fluir, cabalCatalan, Valencian
- proudit, stroming, tok, proudění, příliv, téctCzech
- llifoWelsh
- strøm, flod, strømme, flydeDanish
- Tätigkeitsrausch, Fluss, fließen, FlutGerman
- ροή, κυλώ, παροχή, ρέω, είμαι ένα με, πλημμυρίδαGreek
- fluiEsperanto
- caudal, fluir, flujoSpanish
- tõus, ladusus, vool, sujuvusEstonian
- etorriBasque
- lipua, virtaus, sujua, nousuvesi, virrata, virtaama, vuoksi, ykseys, soljuaFinnish
- flux, couler, écoulementFrench
- snigh, sreabhIrish
- lìonadh, sruth, ruith, silScottish Gaelic
- fluír, fluxoGalician
- sheelManx
- बहेHindi
- áramlásHungarian
- մակընթացություն, հոսք, հոսել, հոսանքArmenian
- alir, salir, salur, alurIndonesian
- riflusso, scorrere, flusso, fluidità, fluire, rifluire, colataItalian
- זְרִימָהHebrew
- ながれる, フローJapanese
- ហូរKhmer
- fluo, fluxus, influuntLatin
- bė́gti, tekė́tiLithuanian
- plūsmaLatvian
- pari, heru, pākatoMāori
- वाहनेMarathi
- سالير, الير, salir, alir, salur, alur, سالور, الورMalay
- စီးBurmese
- debiet, stroom, ronding, vloeien, stromen, afronding, een zijn met, vloedDutch
- fløda, flomme, strøm, fløyma, strømme, flo, flomNorwegian
- nílį́Navajo, Navaho
- przepływać, przypływ, przepływ, płynąćPolish
- fluxo, [[fluxo]] [[da]] [[maré]], fluir, escoamento, caudal, fluidezPortuguese
- fluirRomansh
- flux, curge, curgereRomanian
- струиться, прилив, течение, вовлечённость, плавность, течь, потокRussian
- tečenje, течење, ток, tokSerbo-Croatian
- tok, tiecť, príliv, prúdSlovak
- teči, tokSlovene
- strömma, ström, flöde, flytaSwedish
- mkondoSwahili
- akmak, met, akışTurkish
- тектиUkrainian
- lưu lượngVietnamese
- coulerWalloon
- 流Chinese
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