noun
Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
verb
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
Tears flow from the eyes.
To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
Wealth flows from industry and economy.
Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
Virgil […] is […]sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
[…] in that day[…] the hils shall flow with milke[…]
the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
To hang loosely and wave.
a flowing mantle
flowing locks
noun
A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
[…] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of these flowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place.
Ye'll stick in some flow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow