Flow

Definition: Flow

Flow

Noun

1. The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases).

2. The amount of fluid that flows in a given time.

3. The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.

4. Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.

5. Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors".

6. Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history".

7. The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle.

Verb

1. Move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium".

2. Move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave".

3. Cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper".

4. Be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding".

5. Fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back".

6. Cover or swamp with water.

7. Undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Building & Civil Engineering

Chemical Industry

European Union

Geography

Math

Mining

Slang

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Flow

Course

Verb: elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.

Motion

Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;

Stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis.

Pendency

Verb: be pendent; Adjective: hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.

River

Stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence. (egress); defluxion; flowing. Verb: current, tide, race, coulee.

Sufficiency

Abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.

Crosswords: Flow

And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap, the same in all places, like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Do what I've always done: go with the flow. (The Perfect Storm; writing credit: William D. Wittliff)

Is it supposed to cut off the blood flow to my face (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Standing on one leg doesn't allow the energy complete flow. You can lose it in the floor (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

I'm gonna make like a leper and intercept any cash that may flow your way until I have the renumeration in hand (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea ("Unchained Melody"; performing artist: Al Hibbler)

COS I'LL BE HERE RIGHT BY YOUR SIDE READY TO FLOW (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

Flow like a lazy river (Biggest Part of Me; performing artist: Ambrosia)

And, if I can flow, with you (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

I used to go with the flow (Stronger; performing artist: Britney Spears)

Four free-flow pipes flow freely. (references; author: unknown)

Mister Flow (1936)

Life in Ebb and Flow (2001)

Yoga Flow (2000)

Flow (1996)

Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)

Feel Me Flow (performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Flow International Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Flow Meters in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• On the classification of financial ratios : a factor and transformation analysis of accrual, cash flow, and market-based ratios (reference)

• Handbook of Accounts Receivable Financing: A Dynamic Approach to Cash Flow and Profits (340P) (reference)

• Annular Two-Phase Flow, (reference)

• Computational Rheology for Pipeline and Annular Flow, Non-Newtonian Flow Modeling for Drilling and Production, and Flow Assurance Methods in Subsea Pipeline Design (reference)

• Investigation of separated flow model in annular gas-liquid two-phase flows (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Funryu Kogaku = Journal Of Jet Flow Engineering = Journal Of Jet Flow Engineering (reference)

• International Journal Of Heat And Fluid Flow (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Where the Rivers Flow North (reference)

• Total Yoga - The Flow Series, Water (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Let It Flow (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Flow (reference)

• Flow 4.0 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Briel ES200APG Multi-Pro Stainless Pump Espresso with Auto Espresso Flow (reference)

• Gardena 31910-12 Gun Nozzle with Flow Control (reference)

• Wagan 2014 Quick Flow 3-in-1 Air Compressor (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Two technicians in lab coats are examining plates and tissue culture flasks at a laminar flow hood. The lighting has a soft amber glow. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A scientist is feeding living cells with media (red liquid) under a laminar flow hood. The old solution of cells and media are centrifuged with the cells remaining on the bottom. The old media is then removed and the new media is added. The laminar flow hood insures a sterile environment to prevent contamination of the cells. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

Flow chart showing Reclassification of AIDS Cases Ever Classified as Risk Not Identified through 1996, United States. Credit: CDC.

A CDC scientist wearing a protective suit with helmet and face mask is seated at an air flow hood as he conducts his studies. Credit: CDC.

"Velocity Field for Fluid Flow Thru a Tube" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (the curvature), B (the inner diameter), or C (the speed of the fluid flow). Inspired by a drawing on page 3 of Harry Schey's "Div, Grad, Curl, and All That", 2nd edition. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

F-16XL Scamp Flow Visualization Test. Credit: NASA.

Wing Flow Method. Credit: NASA.

Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a Karman vortex. These vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rising precipitously from the surrounding waters, the island's highest point is nearly a mile (1.6 km) above sea level. As wind-driven clouds encounter this obstacle, they flow around it to form these large, spinning eddies. Credit: NASA.

River eroding volcanic ash flow. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The end of the road caused by a lava flow across the pavement. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Miss Harriet Smith may not find offers of marriage flow in so fast, though she is a very pretty girl

There was a kind of vague ebb and flow in his brain

And he reclined and let the gently moving water flow around his neck

The fingers and toes flow to their extent from the thawing mass of the body

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Your peak flow meter. (references)

This is your peak flow number. (references)

The flow could be lighter or heavier. (references)

Business

Furthermore, bulk transport enables a continuous flow of supply for processing. (references)

A high priority for the project is processes equipment and flow control technology. (references)

When and if this aid flow begins, there could be a number of opportunities for exporters. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

NGO monitors further allege that even food budgets are highly deficient, with many institutions dependent on the uneven flow of private donations to feed their charges. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

These "internal" closures impede the flow of goods, including food and fuel, and persons. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Emigrants are not prevented from returning to the country, and there reportedly was a small but steady flow of returnees. (references)

Economic History

Poland

New investment continues to flow into the country. (references)

Oman

There are no foreign exchange or capital flow restrictions. (references)

Oman

A local contact can expedite the flow of paperwork and documents. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

Another abuse is the "baby elephant," in which a gas mask is placed on the prisoner's head and the flow of oxygen slowly reduced. (references)

Bahamas

The Supreme Court established a task force to recommend further reforms in the court system and published a report in 1999 proposing modifications in the system to facilitate case flow management including the disposition of cases within 6 months of initial filing. (references)

Nigeria

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for killing persons in the following cases from 2000: The August killing of a Nnamdi Azikiwe University student; the July killing of 1 person when a demonstration was dispersed forcibly; the July killing of 1 person when a strike was dispersed forcibly; the June killings of 2 persons in Abuja; the June killings of 5 persons for suspected vandalization; and the April and March killings of 28 Delta youths near oil flow stations. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

Trade-related funds flow freely into and out of Taiwan. (references)

JAPAN

Japan also tolerates a business environment that protects established companies and restricts the free flow of competitive foreign goods into the Japanese market. (references)

Cuba

Given these conditions, the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances from the exile community significantly helped those who received dollars to survive. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

Saudi policies facilitate the free flow of financial resources. (references)

Australia

Australia does not restrict the flow of currency into or out of the country. (references)

Hungary

Most high-tech western technology can flow to Hungary without export licenses. (references)

Travel

Singapore

Traffic flow is quite good. (references)

Worker Rights

Vietnam

Corruption is a serious problem at all levels, and some officials may be involved in the flow of overseas workers into exploitative conditions or into trafficking. (references)

Nigeria

The full nature and scope of the trade remained unknown, but immigration and police officials throughout Europe continued to report a steady flow of Nigerian women lured and sold into prostitution in Europe, particularly Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Czech Republic. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I flow

I flow

Expressions using "flow": 2) steady flow ♦ actual flow ♦ air flow ♦ air flow meter ♦ air flow method ♦ air flow method brake test ♦ air traffic flow management system ♦ area of artesian flow ♦ artesian flow ♦ average flow ♦ axial flow compressor ♦ backward flow ♦ Bingham flow ♦ Blood Flow Velocity ♦ cash flow ♦ cause to flow ♦ causing to flow ♦ Chi (ki) energy flow ♦ circulation flow lubrication ♦ cold flow ♦ collector flow factor ♦ color coding of traffic flow information ♦ colour coding of traffic flow information ♦ confined flow ♦ confined flow system ♦ constant flow ♦ control flow ♦ convection flow ♦ convective flow ♦ critical flow ♦ critical flow prover ♦ current flow ♦ data flow ♦ data flow analysis ♦ data Flow Diagram ♦ debris flow levee ♦ dielectric flow rate ♦ disruption of flow curve ♦ double flow route ♦ earth flow ♦ Ebb and flow ♦ eddy flow ♦ eddying flow ♦ effective input flow ♦ energy flow ♦ energy flow rate ♦ Evans clean flow tunnel ♦ external flow ♦ flow again ♦ flow area ♦ flow around ♦ flow away ♦ flow back ♦ flow bog ♦ flow box ♦ flow chart ♦ flow chart representation ♦ flow constriction ♦ flow control ♦ flow control valve ♦ flow cutting ♦ flow cytometry ♦ flow diagram ♦ flow down ♦ flow freely ♦ flow from ♦ flow in ♦ flow in to ♦ Flow Injection Analysis ♦ flow into ♦ flow into each other ♦ flow into the sea ♦ flow line ♦ flow marks ♦ flow measuring flume ♦ flow moss ♦ flow of amalgam ♦ flow of capital ♦ flow of control ♦ flow of ideas ♦ flow of immigrants ♦ flow of information ♦ flow of investment ♦ flow of soul ♦ flow of thought ♦ flow of trade ♦ flow of words ♦ flow off ♦ flow out ♦ flow over ♦ flow parameters ♦ flow path ♦ flow process diagram ♦ flow prover ♦ flow rate ♦ flow rate recovery ♦ flow shop ♦ flow switch ♦ flow system ♦ flow table ♦ flow through. Additional references.

Beginning with "flow": flow-chart, flow-chart-cum-module, flow-charts, flow-cost, flow-cytometry, flow-front, flow-line, FLOW-MATIC or FLOWMATIC, flow-of-funds, flow-on, flow-out, flow-patterns, flow-rate, flow-rates, flow-sectioned, flow-tested, flow-through, flow-visualization.

Ending with "flow": air-flow, bulk-flow, cash-flow, mid-flow, reverse-flow, thought-flow, water-flow.

Containing "flow": continuous-flow water heater, radial-flow turbine.

Afrikaans

vloei, stroom, loop (function, operate, run, work). (various references)

Albanian

përrua (Beck, bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, brooklet, Creek, nullah, rain, small river, Spruit, stream, streamlet, torrent, watercourse), baticë (afflux, flood tide, flux, high tide, influx, springtide, tide, water), derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run out, run over, sluice, spill, stream), gëlon (abound, come in multitude, crawl, swarm, teem, throng), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, locomotion, motion, move, movement, removal, shifting, stir, traffic, transfer), lumë (avalanche, barrator, effluent, river, stream), ardhje (accession, advent, approach, arrival, coming, inflow, ingoing), ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, hoist, increase, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake), valëviten, rrëke (Beck, bourn, Bourne, burn, deluge, flood, gush, rain, runlet, runnel, stream, torrent), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), rrjedhë (course, current, drift, effluence, March, onflow, run, tenor, tide, watercourse), rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, effusion, escape, flowing, flux, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow), shket (float, ricochet, sail, skid, subside), shpejtësi (career, celerity, despatch, dispatch, haste, legerity, lick, momentum, pace, promptitude, quickness, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, tearing hurry, velocity), ngrihet (bristle, harden, heave, lift off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تدلى (bag, dangle, droop, fall, flag, loll, lop, sag, suspend, swing), ‏إرتفع (advance, arise, ascend, aspire, climb, come in, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower, uplift), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏إنتاج (child, composition, fructification, growth, make, manufacture, output, procreation, produce, product, reproduction), ‏المد و الجزر, ‏جدول (bayou, brook, chart, creek, glen, gulch, gully, gutter, index, list, panel, purl, register, rill, rivulet, runlet, runnel, scale, schedule, small stream, stagger, stream, table, tabulate, tally, wadi, water course), ‏جرى (carry out, execute, float, occur, precipitate, roll, run, scat, take place, transact), ‏جريان (circulation, current, inflow, passing), ‏صب (cast, casting, cut, decant, discharge, imbue, infusion, lave, molding, moulding, paint, pigment, pour, rain, shaping, teem), ‏طمث, ‏دفق (afflux, effluence, effluent, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, outflow, outpouring, pour, pump, race, river, slop, stream, well), ‏سيلان, ‏فيضان (alluvion, deluge, flood, flux, high, high tide, overflow, rise, rising, spate, stream), ‏تدفق (affluence, afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), ‏تهدل, ‏تيار (current, influx, stream), ‏حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏حيض (course, indisposition, monthly), ‏نهر (chute, river, strand, stream, wadi), ‏فاض (deluge, flood, flow over, inundate, overfill, overflow, run over, spill over, stream), ‏فيض (abundance, affluence, emanation, flood, flooding, overflow, plenty, spate, superfluity), ‏سال (flux, gather, liquefy, liquidate, pour, run, seep, shed, smear, stream, trill). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поток (current, gush, nullah, onflow, pour, river, run, runnel, shower, stream, tide), дебит (debit, discharge, out-turn), бликам (gush, spout, squirt, well), произлизам (accrue, arise, arisen, arose, emanate, ensue, eventuate, flow from, originate, proceed, result), преливам (brim over, burst, fade, infuse, melt, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, run over, simmer over, slop over, transfuse, well over), прилив (afflux, flood, flood tide, flux, inflow, inset, onrush, rush, waft), леене (foundry), прииждам (flood, flux, rise, swell), енергетичен поток, падане (drop, fall, falling, incidence, mucker, prolapsus, spill, thump, trip, tumble), имам менструация (menstruate), изтичане (discharge, effluence, efflux, effusion, escape, expiration, expiry, fluxion, issuance, issue, leak, leakage, outflow, outgo, outlet, seepage, termination), извирам (boil away, head, issue, rise, spring), излияния (gush, outpourings, romantics, slop, slops), издигам се (advance, arise, arose, ascend, aspire, go up, jump, loft, move up, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, tower, uprise), прииждане на река (fresh, freshet, high water, spate), шурване, стичам се (congregate, flow in, overflow, pour, pour in, seep, throng), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), течене, течение (course, current, draught, drift, flowage, flux, fluxion, lapse, onflow, passage, stream, sweep, tide), тека гладко, бликване (flux), шуртя (spout, stream), струя (blast, current, gush, jet, rush, spout, squirt, stream, trail, well up), вливам се (disembogue, empty, fall, join, mouth, pour), отток (sink, sink hole), наводнявам (deluge, drown, float, flood, inundate, swamp, water), нижа се (tail), менструация (courses, flowers, menses, menstruation, monthlies, period, term), минавам (elapse, get by, go, go by, lapse, pass, pass away, pass by, pass into, pass round, pass through, range, roll by, roll on, run, wear through), тека (course, devolve, effuse, flux, lapse, leak, roll, roll by, run, run on, set, sluice). (various references)

Chinese 

潺 (trickle), 流程, 流動 . (various references)

Czech

tok (confluence, conflux, reach, river, running, stream), téci (leak, run, stream), splývat (fall, fall loosely, hang), provoz (service, traffic, working), proudit (circulate, pour, stream, tide), proud (current, drift, flood, flush, gush, jet, race, river, run, spout, stream, trend), prùtok, plynout (stream), obìh (circuit, circulation, cycle, orbit, revolution, sphere, turn). (various references)

Danish

strøm (current, stream), flyde (float). (various references)

Dutch

vloeien (flowing, yielding), vlieten (shrinkage), stroming (current, stream, tendency), stromen, lopen (go, go for a walk, go on foot, march, pace, run, stalk, step, stride, stroll, tread, walk). (various references)

Esperanto

fluo (current, stream), flui. (various references)

Faeroese

flóta (float), streyma, renna (run, trot), reka (be adrift, chase, drift, drive, drive on, impel, shoo). (various references)

Farsi 

مد(برابرجزر), سلیس بودن , سلاست , جاری بودن , جریان (Circuit, Course, Fluor, Gush, Income, Inset, Ooze, Outflow, Progress, Rede, Stream, Tide), روانی (Bolubility, Freedom, Mental, Psychic, Versatility), روان شدن (Gush, Trill), شریدن , بده (Discharge). (various references)

Finnish

virrata (come pouring, pour, run, stream). (various references)

French

courant (current flow), couler, flux (flood, flush, flux), s'écouler (flow off), écoulement (flowage, flowing, flux). (various references)

Frisian

floeie, stream (current, stream). (various references)

German

strömung (current, direction, drift, race, stream, tendency, trend), strömen (flock, flowed, gush, pour, spill out, stream, to stream), fließen (be discharged, circulate, fluxion, meet, move, pass, run, stream, to flow), Flut (deluge, flood, flood tide, flux, gush, high tide, incoming tide, spate, storm, tidal, torrent, volley). (various references)

Greek 

ροή (flux), ρέω (run, stream). (various references)

Hebrew 

תזרים, ספיקה (discharge, need, possibility, satisfaction, sufficiency, supply), גאות (boom, boon, flood tide, flux, glory, high tide, majesty, pride, swell, swelling, tide), זרם (course, current, downpour, flux, influx, spurt, stream, tide, trend), זרימה (flowing, flux), זוב (discharge, flux, secretion), פכפוך (bubbling, dripping, gush, percolation, trickle), קלוח (gush, jet, steam), שצף (current, flood, stream, torrent), נזילה (leak, leakage), שתיתה (bleeding, effusion, flux), לשפוע (abound, discharge, emanate, teem), לנטוף (drip, drop, exude, rosin, seep), לנבוע (arise, bubble, derive, emanate, gush forth, issue, originate, pour forth, result, spout forth, stem, well), לנהור (crowd, flock, rush, stream, swarm), לנזול (drip, leak), לצוף (float, ride, surface), לגאות (grow up, swell, tide), לזרום (spout, spurt, stream, tide, well), לזלוג (drip, pour, stream, trickle, water), שטף (current, flux, gush, spate, stream, torrent). (various references)

Hungarian

folyás (course, drift, flux, leak, run, running), ömlés (gush, stream). (various references)

Indonesian

mengalir (pour, stream, stream down), gerabak (trickle), cicik (whistle), bercucuran (gush, stream), arus (current), aliran (CONDUIT, current, drift, genre, ism, PIPELINE, stream, TREND, WIRING). (various references)

Irish

snigh. (various references)

Italian

fluire (course, flow down, fluxion, glide, run, stream), corrente (current, drift, flowing, fluent, going, instant, ordinary, power, present, running, rush, smooth, stream, swim, tide), scorrere (flush, glide, overrun, pass, roll by, run, scan, skim, slide, stream, tick away), portata (carload, carrying capacity, compass, course, delivery capacity, discharge, importance, range, reach, scope, sweep), flusso (flux, rush), defluire (run). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フレコン化 (changing something to full remote control, flex, flextime, float, floater serve, floating, flooring, flora, flow inflation, flowchart, French, French cancan, French dressing, French kiss, French sleeve, French toast, fresh, fresher, freshman, fret, fretless, friend, friendly, friends, friendship, frozen food, frozen yoghurt, newly hired career-track company employee, wooden floor), 満ち潮 , 流動 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フロー , りゅうどう, みちしお. (various references)

Korean 

교류 (Interchanging). (various references)

Malay

alir ... mengalir. (various references)

Manx

thooilley (cloudburst, deluge, downfall, downpour, effusion, flood, inundation, onrush, spate, stream, water-spout), taaley (draw, lactate; secretion, lactation, secrete), roie (bolt, burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flowing, flying, ladder, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting), lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, fill out, flood tide, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, pad, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon). (various references)

Norwegian

flyte (float), flo (flood-tide), strøm (current, flood, flush, high tide), stige (ladder). (various references)

Pig Latin

owflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fluxo (flood, flux, high tide, outflow, stream), fluidez (fluidity), fluência (fluency, volubility), corrente (backwash, cable, catena, chain, circulation, course, criss-cross, fetter, floating, flowing, fluent, flux, fresh, general, guy, prevailing, preventer, rife, river, ruling, running, runny, scour, shackle, stream, tether, tide, tie, undercurrent). (various references)

Romanian

curge (course, drip, elapse, fly, glide, hang, not to hold water, pour, rain, run, start, stream, suppurate). (various references)

Russian 

струя (current, jet, jet of, spirt, spout, squirt, stream, whiff), растекаться, течь;происходить поток, течь (leak, leakage, run, seep, stream), течение (course, current, drift, flight, flowing, flux, lapse, onflow, passage, progress, run, stream, tenor, trend), выжимка (overflow, spew), выпрессовка (overflow, spew), наплыв (alluvium, dissolve, fade-over, influx, inundation, onrush), литься (rain), прилив (afflux, boss, flood tide, flux, high tide, rush, tide, tongue), поток (current, flux, gush, outpour, rain, shower, spate, stream, tide, torrance, torrent, volley, watercourse). (various references)

Scottish

ruith (chase, flow as a stream : 'na ruith, hunt, run, running). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uticati (affect, disembogue, have an effect, influence), ulivati (instil), tok (consecution, course, flux, lapse, march, process, series, stream, tide), teći (course, flux, run, stream), strujati (circulate, stream), protok, proteći (expire, pass, run out), oteći (bilge, drain, swell, tumefy), nit (thread), liti (pour, teem, weep). (various references)

Spanish

corriente (accepted, air blast, bread and butter, common, crosscurrent, current, current month, drift, easy, familiar, flowing, general, going, juice, normal, nullah, onflow, ordinary, outpour, popular, prevalent, rain, regular, running, staple, stream, swim, tendency, tide, topic, topical, unexceptional), correr (blow, chase, draw, gallop, go about, go around, go it, go round, hare, hie, hurry, lap, nip, pour, publish, race, run, run along, scour, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, slide, stream, travel, zap), flujo (discharge, flood, flux, issue, river), fluir (drift, fluxion, outflow, stream). (various references)

Sranan

lon (run). (various references)

Swedish

rinna (course, run, stream), strömma (flood, gutter, pour, stream, wash), ström (current, electricity, flood, flux, fountain, gush, jet, onflow, pour, race, rash, river, rush, sea, spate, stream, torrent), flyta (be fluid, float, gutter, run, swim), flöde (flood, flux, river, stream, torrent), flöda (flood, pour, prime, stream, wrap). (various references)

Turkish

akmak (bleed, course, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, run out, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up). (various references)

Turkmen 

to, tigirlenmek (move), юabyrdamak (pour, spread), зьwdьrmek (run, stream), akym (stream), akar (stream). (various references)

Ukrainian

струменіти (glide, ripple), течія (course, current, flux, onflow, stream), текти (course, ensue, stream, weep), протікати (leak, spring a leak), приплив (affluence, afflux, back water, flood, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, onflow, onrush), потік (avalanche, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, flood, outpour, rain, river, spate, splurge, torrent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính sảng khoái chuyện trò vui vẻ, sự chảy lượng chảy, luồng tính vui vẻ. (various references)

Welsh

rhedeg (run), llifo (dye, grind, stream), llifeirio (stream), llanw (fill, tide), dylifo (pour, stream), adlif (ebb). (various references)

zar. (various references)

abdiam, adfuit, asaiam, baleitarum, decurrant, decurrens, decurrent, decurrentes, decurrentis, decurrere, decurrit, decurrunt, defluant, defluebantque, defluent, defluenti, defluentibus, deflueret, defluet, defluit, defluxerunt, defluxit, dorimini, eam, eamus, eant, eas, eat, eatis, eo, esaiam, eundo, eunte, euntem, euntes, euntibus, floriens, fluat, fluctibus, fluctui, fluctum, fluctus, fluctuum, fluebant, fluebat, fluens, fluent, fluentem, fluentes, fluere, fluerent, fluet, fluit, fluunt, fluxerat, fluxerint, fluxerit, fluxerunt, fluxu, fluxum, fluxus, iam, iaminitarum, iamne, iamnitis, iamnor, iamque, iara, iathur, ibam, ibamus, ibant, ibat, ibimus, ibis, ibit, ibitis, ibitque, ibo, ibunt, ibuntque, iemini, ieramus, ierant, ieras, ierat, ieremias, ierimus, ieris, ierit, iero, ierunt, iesaias, iesamari, iesesi, iesmaias, iessei, iesser, iessui, iesue, iit, imus, influat, influebat, ioribus, ire, irem, iremus, irent, iret, iris, is, isque, isse, issent, isset, issetque, isti, istis, ita, itaque, ite, itur, itureae, iturei, ituri, iturus, ivimus, ivit, ivitque, liquens, manabant, manabat, manantem, manasse, manassem, manasses, manat, manemus, manent, manere, manet, manetis, maseas, masmana, noneas, obdiam, salmana. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "flow": flowage, flowages, flowchart, flowcharting, flowchartings, flowcharts, flowed, flower, flowerage, flowerages, flowerbed, flowerbeds, flowered, flowerer, flowerers, floweret, flowerets, flowerette, flowerettes, flowerful, flowerier, floweriest, flowerily, floweriness, flowerinesses, flowering, flowerless, flowerlike, flowerpot, flowerpots, flowers, flowery, flowing, flowingly, flowmeter, flowmeters, flown, flows, flowstone, flowstones. (additional references)

Words ending with "flow": airflow, backflow, counterflow, inflow, interflow, mudflow, outflow, overflow, reflow, underflow, upflow. (additional references)

Words containing "flow": airflows, backflows, beflower, beflowered, beflowering, beflowers, bellflower, bellflowers, blanketflower, blanketflowers, cauliflower, caulifloweret, cauliflowerets, cauliflowers, coneflower, coneflowers, cornflower, cornflowers, counterflows, cuckooflower, cuckooflowers, dayflower, dayflowers, deflower, deflowered, deflowerer, deflowerers, deflowering, deflowers, foamflower, foamflowers, gillyflower, gillyflowers, globeflower, globeflowers, inflows, mayflower, mayflowers, moonflower, moonflowers, mudflows, nonflowering, outflowed, outflowing, outflown, outflows, overflowed, overflowing, overflown, overflows, pasqueflower. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aflow, elow, falo, Fclo, Fiow, flawt, flewd, flewy, floaw, flob, flod, floj, flok, flom, floow, floox, flor, flos, flot, flou, flowd, flowg, flowr, flowy, floy, fluq, flwo, fol, folv, fouw, fow, fowk, fowy, Iflo, llow, Ulowi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fowl, wolf.

-1 letter: low, owl.

-2 letters: lo, of, ow, wo.

+1 letter: flown, flows, fowls, woful, wolfs.

+2 letters: fallow, fellow, flowed, flower, follow, fowled, fowler, inflow, reflow, upflow, woeful, wolfed, wolfer.

+3 letters: airflow, batfowl, blowfly, blowoff, bowlful, cowflap, cowflop, fallows, fellows, felwort, flowage, flowers, flowery, flowing, flyblow, folkway, follows, fowlers, fowling, fowlpox, glowfly, inflows, lowlife, mudflow, oldwife, outflew, outflow, peafowl, reflown, reflows, seafowl, twofold, upflows, werwolf, witloof, wofully, wolfers, wolfing, wolfish, wolfram.