Crossword clues for fluent
fluent
- Smooth-talking
- Smooth and unconstrained in speech or movement
- Linguistically knowledgeable
- Polished, languagewise
- Well-spoken
- Glib or graceful
- Glib Fellow advanced, taking in university
- Easy to get hospital department to follow infection
- Easily flowing in pipe, not empty
- Speaking easily
- Flowing freely
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluent \Flu"ent\, a. [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. Fluctuate, Flux.]
Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
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Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.
With most fluent utterance.
--Denham.Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter.
--De Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "flowing freely" (of water), also, of speakers, "able and nimble in the use of words," from Latin fluentem (nominative fluens) "lax, relaxed," figuratively "flowing, fluent," present participle of fluere "to flow, stream, run, melt," from extended form of PIE root *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (cognates: Latin flumen "river;" Greek phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell;" see bole. Used interchangeably with fluid (adj.) in 17c. in the sense "changeable, not rigid." Related: Fluently.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 That flows; flowing, liquid. 2 (context linguistics English) Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a ''flowing'' way. n. (context mathematics obsolete English) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's ''Method of Fluxions''.
WordNet
adj. easy and graceful in shape; "a yacht with long, fluent curves"
smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose" [syn: flowing, fluid, liquid, smooth]
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]
Wikipedia
Fluent refers to Fluency, the ability to communicate in a language quickly and accurately:
- fluent (mathematics), in mathematics, a continuous function
- fluent (artificial intelligence), in artificial intelligence, a condition that varies over time
- Fluent, Inc., a company that develops software for computational fluid dynamics
- Fluent interface, a software engineering object-oriented construct
- Fluent (user interface), introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office system
- Fluentd, open source data collection software.
In artificial intelligence, a fluent is a condition that can change over time. In logical approaches to reasoning about actions, fluents can be represented in first-order logic by predicates having an argument that depends on time. For example, the condition “the box is on the table”, if it can change over time, cannot be represented by On(box, table); a third argument is necessary to the predicate On to specify the time: On(box, table, t) means that the box is on the table at time t. This representation of fluents is used in the situation calculus using the sequence of the past actions in place of the current time.
A fluent can also be represented by a function, dropping the time argument. For example, that the box is on the table can be represented by on(box, table), where on is a function and not a predicate. In first order logic, converting predicates to functions is called reification; for this reason, fluents represented by functions are said to be reified. When using reified fluents, a separate predicate is necessary to tell when a fluent is actually true or not. For example, HoldsAt(on(box, table), t) means that the box is actually on the table at time t, where the predicate HoldsAt is the one that tells when fluents are true. This representation of fluents is used in the event calculus, in the fluent calculus, and in the features and fluents logics.
Some fluents can be represented as functions in a different way. For example, the position of a box can be represented by a function on(box, t) whose value is the object the box is standing on at time t. Conditions that can be represented in this way are called functional fluents. Statements about the values of such functions can be given in first order logic with equality using literals such as on(box, t) = table. Some fluents are represented this way in the situation calculus.
Usage examples of "fluent".
Four months after he arrived at Bangkok, at the age of eight, he spoke fluent, accentless Thai.
Abysses of amnesia continually opened beneath him, but he would bridge them, nimbly, by fluent confabulations and fictions of all kinds.
Neal Custos Sylvanii knows some of our language, but he is not fluent.
At first his attention was given chiefly to improving his reading and spelling, for Dodger was far from fluent in the first, while his style of spelling many words was strikingly original.
It was hard for Joseph to make out what they were saying, for, although like all Masters he was fluent in Folkish as well as the Master tongue and the Indigene language also, the northern dialect these people used was unfamiliar to him and when they spoke rapidly and more than one was speaking at once, as they were doing now, he quickly lost the thread of their words.
Because of their academic garb, the duke said it in Keno, the academic language, which he was not truly fluent in.
She was always very fluent, he knew from Sophia, with Mrs Ter Laan in the studio, full of philosophical profundities.
They wore only the little mutsha loincloths, and hung their heads shyly as Louise greeted them in fluent rippling Sindebele.
Isailo Suk, who is fluent in Arabic and studies Islamic sources on the Khazar polemic.
The ersatz text, though containing some strikeovers and various typographical errors, was in basically fluent and intelligible Latin and described in vivid, erotic detail an imagined homosexual encounter involving the Blesses Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.
Not an unfeasible endeavor for Decimus, who was fluent in many Gallic tongues, and envisioned no problems en route.
By the time we reached our destination my husband had shed ten years, and as we made our way through the chaos of the Cairo train station he was the old Emerson, shouting orders and expletives in fluent Arabic.
In point of fact, Rhys was fluent in both city and country French as well as Welsh, Cree, Aleut, and a few more languages, including the officialese in which he was expected to write his reports.
Far about, A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies Most ravishingly run, so smooth of curve That I but seem to see the fluent plain Rise toward a rain of clover-blooms, as lakes Pout gentle mounds of plashment up to meet Big shower-drops.
No, what caused this disintegration in a usually fairly fluent prattler with the sex was her whole mental attitude.