n. 流程, 流动, 流量, 洋溢, 泛滥, 涨潮

vi. 流动, 流泄, 畅流, 川流不息, 飘扬, 涌出

vt. 使流动, 淹没, 流出

[医] 流动, 流(水流,气流); 月经

[经] 流转, 流程, 流动

Flow \Flow\, v. t.
1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to
inundate; to flood.

2. To cover with varnish.


Flow \Flow\, n.
1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of
water; a flow of blood.

2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of
words.

3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought,
diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady
movement of a river; a stream.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul. --Pope.

4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the
shore. See {Ebb and flow}, under {Ebb}.

5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also {flow
moss} and {flow bog}. [Scot.] --Jamieson.


Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), obs.
imp. sing. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer.


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.
[root]80. Cf. {Flood}.]
1. 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.

2. To become liquid; to melt.

The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
lxiv. 3.

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. --Milton.

4. 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.
--Dryden.

5. 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. --Prof.
Wilson.

6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
locks.

The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
Hamilton.

7. 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.

8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.