flownoun詞源 1/ˈfləʊ̯/

• 1

  Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.

• 2

  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.
• 3

  mathematicssciencesA 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.
• 4

  The rising movement of the tide.

• 5

  Smoothness or continuity.

  • The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
• 6

  The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.

  • Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
  • Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.
• 7

  A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).

• 8

  human-sciencespsychologysciencesA mental state characterized by concentration, focus, and enjoyment of a given task.

  • The point about flow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experienced flow, the happier they were." But the second is that entering flow actually improves performance.

flowverb詞源 2/ˈfləʊ̯/

• 1

  To move as a fluid from one position to another.

  • Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
  • Tears flow from the eyes.
• 2

  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, mixt with Love
• 3

  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.
• 4

  To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.

  • […]in that day, that[…]the hils ſhall flow with milke,[…]a fountaine ſhall come forth of the houſe of the Lord,[…]
  • the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
• 5

  To hang loosely and wave.

  • a flowing mantle
  • flowing locks
• 6

  To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.

  • The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • The Riuer hath thrice flow’d, no ebbe betweene:
• 7

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.

• 8

  To allow (a liquid) to flow.

  • The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil is flowed from the tubing it lowers the pressure on the remaining oil and liberates more gas, thus causing additional oil to flow from the tubing.

flownoun詞源 3/ˈfləʊ̯/

• 1

  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