What is "flows"

Usage examples of "flows".

The two flows drew in on themselves, welling up into bulky mounds that sculpted into two figures curled on the floor.

Into this region the cooler air from the north and south necessarily flows, in part pressed in by the weight of the cold air which overlies it, but aided in its motion by the fact that the particles which ascend leave place for others to occupy.

The rivers of crimson corruption suddenly stopped their flows, freezing in place.

Ahead lay the confluence of elemental flows, a mixing of channels draining from both the Northern and Southern Fangs.

When such a place of uprush is established, the hot air next the surface flows in all directions toward the shaft, joining the expedition to the heights of the atmosphere.

Note the three lines of breakers and the splash flows cutting little bays in the sand.

While the tide waves are limited to the open ocean, and to the seas and bays which afford them free entrance, wind waves are produced everywhere where water is subjected to the friction of air which flows over it.

In an ordinary dew-making night the leaves of a single stem may gather as much as half a pint of water, which flows down their surfaces to the roots.

The reason for this is easily perceived: it lies in the fact that the rocks over which the stream flows are guided in the cutting which they effect by the diversities of hardness in the strata that they encounter.

This gorge has embranchments where the few great tributaries have done like work, but, on the whole, this river flows in an almost unbroken channel, the excavation of which has been due to its swift, pebble-bearing waters.

Even in the case of the Great Lakes of North America a considerable part of the water which flows into them does not go to the St.

Thus in the valley of the Genesee, which now flows from Pennsylvania, where it heads against the tributaries of the Ohio and Susquehanna, to Lake Ontario, there was during the Glacial epoch a considerable river which discharged its waters into those of the Ohio and the Susquehanna over the falls at the head of its course.

Where drops are formed, a small, pendent cone grows downward from the ceiling, over which the water flows, and on which it evaporates.

Thus we often find that for a certain distance the roof over a large stream has fallen in, so that the water flows in the open air.

Thus the water is forced to the surface with considerable energy, and the well is often named artesian, though it flows by gas pressure on the principle of the soda-water fountain, and not by gravity, as in the case of true artesian wells.