Crossword clues for flowing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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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To become liquid; to melt.
The mountains flowed down at thy presence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train.
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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. 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.
Wiktionary
1 Tending to flow. 2 Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. n. The action of the verb '''to flow''' v
(present participle of flow English)
WordNet
adj. 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]
(of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure" [syn: artesian] [ant: subartesian]
moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall" [syn: streaming]
(of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook" [syn: streaming]
n. the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn: flow]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
"Flowing" is a song by the group 311. It first appeared on the 1999 album Soundsystem, and was released as the second single from the album. It was included on 311's Greatest Hits '93-'03 album in 2004.
The song did not obtain as much attention as the first single from Soundsystem, " Come Original", but did reach #17 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The lyrics depict lead singer Nick Hexum's bout with insomnia.
Usage examples of "flowing".
One of the last letters he received before departure was from his admiring friend Benjamin Rush, who in his usual flowing, assured hand wrote that though he hated to see Adams go, he had every confidence in him: I am aware that your abilities and firmness are much wanted at the Court of France, and after all that has been said of the advantages of dressing, powdering, and bowing well as necessary accomplishments for an ambassador, I maintain that knowledge and integrity with a common share of prudence will outweigh them all.
Mauryl had lived long, very long, and all those years might have been in these scrolls, decades of messages flowing between the Warden of Ynefel and the aetheling of Amefel, or things older still.
Europe flowing among their own alluvia have required similar treatment in the interest of navigation and agriculture.
French youths to feed their eyes with the sight of the flowing blood of living animals, and to have their ears stunned with their groans, at this time when society is calling for the doing away of public executions?
There was a short struggle at the surface, and then a swirl of waters, a little eddy, and a burst of bubbles soon smoothed out by the flowing current marked for the instant the spot where Tarzan of the Apes, Lord of the Jungle, disappeared from the sight of men beneath the gloomy waters of the dark and forbidding Ugambi.
The flowing gown she wore, draped around her shoulders and left arm, presented a study in contrast, as the light from various areas around the statue and its pedestal helped illuminate the statue against the dark background.
Not as he did now, looking at the seven hills asprawl with orange-tiled roofs, glitters of gold from gilded temple eaves, tall cypresses, umbelliferous pines, arched aqueducts, the deep blue and strongly flowing width of Father Tiber with the grassy plains of Martius and Vaticanus on either bank.
The town is built at the confluence of two great rivers, the Red and Assiniboine, the former rising in Minnesota, and flowing into lake Winnipeg 150 miles north, navigable for 400 miles.
His eyes rested idly on a little old coloured print of a Bacchante, with flowing green scarf, shaking a tambourine at a naked Cupid, who with a baby bow and arrow in his hands, was gazing up at her.
That is the great river Euphrates, which begins in the hills of Asia Minor and traverses the whole plain, joining at last with the Tigris and flowing into Bahr el Fars--the Persian Gulf--below Bassorah.
Merchants in flowing silk robes sat cross-legged before their booths, extolling the quality of their goods--Mosul silk, matchlocks from Herat, edged weapons from India, and seed pearls from Baluchistan, hawk-like Afghans and weapon-girdled Uzbeks jostled him.
With no fuel ore flowing out of Qin, soon enough the Domain would send a whole squad of battleships to fix everything.
They were Medes, with curled beards and flowing clothes of silk and satin.
She stepped toward Betta on shaky legs, a gurgle still flowing from her bloody throat.
May the Bithynian army crossed into Pontus and reached the Amnias, a tributary of the Halys flowing inland but parallel to the coast around Sinope.