Flowing

Definition: Flowing

Flowing

Adjective

1. Smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose".

2. (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure".

3. Moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall".

4. (of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook".

Noun

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

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

Date "flowing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Flowing

Drunkenness

Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres.

Elegance

Well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right place;well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right place; antithesis.

Graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical.

Fluidity

Adjective: liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent. (flowing).

Loquacity

Fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words;flux de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor loquendi; verbosity; (diffuseness); gift of the gab; (eloquence).

Ornament

Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.

Pain

Loveliness; (beauty); sunny side, bright side; sweets; (sugar); goodness; manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.

Pendency

Adjective: pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging; Verb: beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended; Verb: loose, flowing.

Productiveness

Milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization.

River

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

Adjective: fluent; diffluent, profluent, affluent; tidal; flowing. Verb: meandering, meandry, meandrous; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy, showery,rainy, pluvial, stillicidous;Adjective: fluent; diffluent, profluent, affluent; tidal; flowing. Verb: meandering, meandry, meandrous; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy, showery,rainy, pluvial, stillicidous; stillatitious.

Sufficiency

Fill; fullness; (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; Adjective:; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; " good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance; (fertility); affluence; (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine; (stock).

Writing

Calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand.

Crosswords: Flowing

Where I will unveil a fifth of whiskey, I have hidden here under my loose, flowing sports shirt (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

There's no knowing where we're rowing or which way the river's flowing. Is it raining (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal, or like silvery wind flowing in a space-ship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied knew such lovely pictures (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

Hanging gardens of Babylon, perhaps; herds of wildebeests flowing majestically (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth)

Walking off into the dark, his long coat flowing behind him in that mysterious and attractive way. (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Like a river that don't know where it's flowing (HUNGRY HEART; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

I fear rivers over flowing. (BAD MOON RISING; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

To keep me flowing and keep me going (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon)

Dry the streams still flowing (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay)

Something warm flowing through my eyes (Last Kiss; performing artist: Pearl Jam)

Flowing Gold (1940)

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

Books

• Ever Flowing On (reference)

• Flowing With Universal Laws: Cosmic Laws, Universal Laws, Subsidiary Laws (reference)

• Forever Flowing (reference)

• Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace (reference)

• Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the Godhead (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paper), No 91) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Flowing Stream (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lilias Yoga for Beginners: Flowing Postures Boxed Set (reference)

• Lilias! Flowing Postures: Cardio Challenge (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Flowing Rivers (reference)

• Of Time and Rivers Flowing (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• HoMedics WFG-VASE Flowing Vase Fountain (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.

Seen is a close-up of a technician's hand adjusting the amount of chemicals flowing into a beaker in the process of drug synthesis. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Vent Flowing Cold Gas and T/C Rake. Credit: NASA.

Mississippi River levee with river water coming through and flowing to a marsh east of the river. Flooding usually occurs every spring. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Tanker traffic on the Mississippi River during spring flooding. Mississippi River levee with river water coming through and flowing to a marsh east of the river. Flooding usually occurs every spring. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The first sign of the spring melt - a stream is seen flowing on the ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A close-up view of the tide gate from the Delaware River side shows the flat valves near low tide. The water is flowing out of Army Creek, the tide gates are open and debris that plugs the openings can be clearly seen. The restoration work will target modification of the flood gates to allow better passage for anadromous species. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A rest during the work, water is flowing through the cut in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 8. Nepyric Turbidity Measurement Instrument. The Nepyric Corporation was involved for many years with studying numerous types of sediment samplers designed to retrieve suspended solids in flowing water, retained by dams, or in marine zones. One of these models was implemented in 1948 by Jean Serpaud and used for river sediment sampling. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Buffer strips in the foreground and grassed waterway in the distance protect the natural resources on this farm northwest of Peoria, Illinois. The buffer strip reduces soil erosion and keeps the nearby Illinois River flowing with cleaner water. Credit: Bob Nichols.

A view from above the Little Hyatt Dam. Water flowing off over the dam can be seen. Credit: Larry Welsh.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

See Introduction: passing south of the island of Alsen and following the median line of Flensburg Fjord, leaving the fjord about 6 kilometres north of Flensburg and following the course of the stream flowing past Kupfermuhle upstream to a point north of Niehuus, passing north of Pattburg and Ellund and south of Froslee to meet the eastern boundary of the Kreis of Tondern at its junction with the boundary between the old jurisdiction of Slogs and Kjaer (Slogs, Herred, and Kaer Herred), following the latter boundary to where it meets the Scheidebek, following the course of the Scheidebek (AIte Au), Suder Au, and Wied Au downstream successively to the point where the latter bends northwards about 1,500 metres west of Ruttebull thence, in a west-north-westerly direction to meet the North Sea north of SieItoft, thence, passing north of the island of Sylt, the vote above provided for shall be taken within a period not exceeding three weeks after the evacuation of the country by the German troops and authorities. (reference)

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She didn't even programme any coordinates, she hadn't the faintest idea where she was going, she just went - a random row of dots flowing through the Universe

The personality of the artist passes into the narration itself, flowing round and round the persons and the action like a vital sea.

The fields goaded him, and the company ditches with good water flowing were a goad to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Neurosurgeons use MRA to detect stenosis (blockage) of the brain arteries inside the skull by mapping flowing blood. (references)

Sometimes the doctor will ask a patient to urinate into a special device which measures how quickly the urine is flowing. (references)

Swelling at the top of the ureter, usually because something is blocking the urine from flowing into or out of the bladder. (references)

Business

More money is flowing in from the European Union to help Romania prepare for EU entry. (references)

Despite these government controls, uncontrolled information about the nation and the world is flowing into the country at an increasing rate. (references)

Civil Liberties

Moldova

Officials assert that this is to prevent contraband from flowing through Transnistria. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

There is a demand from hospitals and a need from society to treat wastewater flowing out from hospital bases. (references)

Burundi

During this period, an estimated 150,000 people were killed, with tens of thousands of refugees flowing to neighboring countries. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Flowing with honey

Flowing with honey

Flowing

Flowing with water

Flowing

Flowing now

Expressions using "flowing": artesian flowing well ♦ body of flowing water ♦ cursive flowing ♦ ebbing and flowing spring ♦ Flowing battery ♦ Flowing furnace ♦ flowing hair ♦ flowing hand ♦ flowing out ♦ flowing periods ♦ Flowing sheet ♦ flowing well ♦ Flowing Wells ♦ land flowing with milk and honey ♦ stop flowing. Additional references.

Ending with "flowing": fast-flowing, free-flowing, over-flowing, slow-flowing, swift-flowing.

Containing "flowing": fast-flowing stream.

Albanian

rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, effusion, escape, flow, flux, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow), rrjedhës (effluent, fluid, operating, running, unfunded), përmbytje (antediluvian, cataclysm, deluge, flood, flooding, inundation, overflow, spate, submergence, swelling), i rrjedhshëm (facile, fluent, mellifluous), i lirshëm (easy, fluent, slack), bollëk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, exuberance, exuberancy, galore, opulence, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, redundance, redundancy, riches, richness, store, superfluity, wealth). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فضفاض (baggy, large, loose, looseness, wide), ‏تدفق (affluence, afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), ‏سيلا ن جريان, ‏سيال, ‏جاري (current, instant, streaming), ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който се надига, който се лее, който се дипли, който приижда, плавен (easy, fluent, fluid, graceful, light, liquid, tripping). (various references)

Chinese 

湝 , 流动 (Flowed, mobile, runny). (various references)

Czech

tekoucí (running), splývavý, rozpuštìný, plynulý (continuous, fluent, fluid). (various references)

Danish

flydning (yielding). (various references)

Dutch

vloeien (flow). (various references)

Finnish

juoksevuus (flow, fluidity, leveling), juokseva (current, fluid, liquid). (various references)

French

écoulement (flow, flowage, flux). (various references)

German

fließend (floating, fluent, fluently, fluid, fluxionary, moving, running). (various references)

Greek 

ριχτός, ρεύση (flow), ροή (flow, flux). (various references)

Hebrew 

שוטף (current, fluent, rapid, swift, torrential), זיבה (menstruation), זורם (affluent, running), זרמה (ejaculation, issue, stream), זרימה (flow, flux), הזרמה (causing to flow), נובע, נהירה (influx, streaming, swarming), נגירה, נגר (cabinetmaker, carpenter, fluid, joiner, liquid), נביעה (bubbling, gushing forth, spouting). (various references)

Hungarian

folyó (flume, river, stream, streaming, streamy), ömlõ (gushing). (various references)

Indonesian

sendat (not flowing freely, stagnant), penggenangan (flonding, over flowing), lampias (flowing rapidly). (various references)

Italian

flusso (flow, flux, rush), fluido (fluid), fluente (fluent, glib), snello (agile, easy, scrawny, slender, slim, svelte), scorrevole (fluent, sliding), infiltrazione capillare, corrente (current, drift, flow, fluent, going, instant, ordinary, power, present, running, rush, smooth, stream, swim, tide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

流麗 (elegant, fluent), 流暢 (fluent), 滔滔 (swift, voluminous), 房房した (abundant, fleecy, floculent, fringy, tufty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふさふさした (abundant, fleecy, floculent, fringy, tufty), りゅうれい (elegant, fluent), りゅうちょう (fluent, nonmigratory bird), とうとう (after all, and so on, at last, calm, clashing of swords, felling of trees, finally, reaching a head, ringing of an ax, swift, vast, voluminous). (various references)

Korean 

흐름 (streaming). (various references)

Manx

roie (bolt, burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flying, ladder, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting). (various references)

Pig Latin

owingflay.(various references)

Portuguese

flutuante (afloat, awash, buoyant, floating, flying, supernatant, unfunded, wavy), fluido (fluent, liquid), fluente (curling, fluent, glib, voluble), natural (apparent, artless, breathing, genuine, glib, inartificial, inbred, innate, lifelike, matter-of-course, native, natural, normal, outage, physical, plain, shirt-sleeve, spontaneous, unaffected, unconstrained, unlaboured, unsophisticated, unstrained, unstudied, untaught, unvarnished), leve (buoyant, fleet-footed, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, light, light-legged, remote, sleazy, slight, slim, tenuous, tripping, weightless), harmonioso (accordant, canorous, concordant, conformable, consonant, euphonious, harmonious, melodious, numerous, orphic, regular, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny, united), escorregamento (debris avalanche, landslide, landslip, mudslide, skidding, slide, sliding, slip, slippage, slipping, spinning), corrente (backwash, cable, catena, chain, circulation, course, criss-cross, fetter, floating, flow, fluent, flux, fresh, general, guy, prevailing, preventer, rife, river, ruling, running, runny, scour, shackle, stream, tether, tide, tie, undercurrent). (various references)

Romanian

frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), flux (flood, flow, flux, high water, incoming tide, the rise of the tide, wave), fluent (fluent, fluently, glib, smooth), lin (gentle, mild, quiet, slowly, smooth, smoothly, soft, sweet, tench), graţios (airily, daintily, graceful, gracefully, light, lightly, neat, sightly, thoroughbred, winning, winsome), curgere (effluent, flow, flux, fluxion, glide, running), curgãtor (diffluent, fluent, fluently, glib, round, running). (various references)

Russian 

течь плавный, течение (course, current, drift, flight, flow, flux, lapse, onflow, passage, progress, run, stream, tenor, trend), текущий (current, instant, operating, processor-active, recurring, running, then current, then-current, unfunded), проточный, истечение (effluence, efflux, effusion, emanation, escape, expiry, flux, outflow). (various references)

Scottish

fleachdail (flowing in ringlets), leadan (a rosary, flowing hair, lock of hair, notes in music, the herb), lìonadh (filling, flowing of the tide, replenishing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tekući (going, going on, running, streamy), tečan (fluent, fluid, liquid), odliv (cast, drain, reflux), graciozan (charming, lightsome, slinky, svelte). (various references)

Spanish

fluido (facile, fluent, fluid, juice, smooth). (various references)

Swedish

svallande (Popple), rinnande (flow, running, runny), flytande (afloat, buoyant, floating, fluent, fluently, fluid, glib, liquid, molten, pouring, smooth). (various references)

Turkish

kullanışlı (all purpose, available, convenient, functional, general purpose, handy, manageable, operable, practicable, practical, purposive, serviceable, useful), kolay (cushy, downhill, easy, effortless, facile, open and shut, ready, simple, smooth, straightforward, uncomplicated, unlaboured), dalgalı (alternating, billowy, choppy, corrugated, restless, rough, undate, undated, undulated, undulating, waved, wavy), dökümlü, akma (discharge, effluence, efflux, effusion, expulsion, flux, pour), akan (effusive, running, runny), akıcı (diffluent, facile, fastmoving, fluent, fluid, liquid, mellifluous, runny, smooth, speaking, torrential, voluble). (various references)

Turkmen 

akaba. (various references)

Ukrainian

текучий (fluid, runny), біжучий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự chảy tính trôi chảy. (various references)

Welsh

rhedegog (running). (various references)

affluens, affluentes, caesarie, caesariem, caesaries, consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consistunt, constiterant, fluidus, fluxum, fluxus, fusa, fusae, fusi, fusis, fusum, fusus, liquidus, oborta, promissa, promissi, promissis, promissum, volubilis. (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 "flowing": flowingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "flowing": outflowing, overflowing, reflowing, upflowing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flowing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Flodwig, floin, Floline, floowing, floting, flowin, flowings, floxin, Folkwin, follwing, foloowing, fowing. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fowling, wolfing.

-1 letter: inflow, lowing.

-2 letters: fling, flong, flown, gonif, lingo, owing.

-3 letters: filo, fino, flog, flow, foil, foin, fowl, glow, golf, gown, info, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lown, noil, wing, wino, wolf.

-4 letters: fig, fil, fin, fog, fon, gin, ion, lin, log, low, nil, nog, now, oil, owl, own, wig, win, wog, won.

-5 letters: go, if.

+1 letter: fowlings.

+2 letters: fallowing, fellowing, flowering, flowingly, following, reflowing, upflowing.

+3 letters: batfowling, flyblowing, followings, frowningly, outflowing.

+4 letters: beflowering, deflowering, furbelowing, overflowing, reflowering, wildfowling.

+5 letters: flowcharting, nonflowering, waterfowling, wildfowlings.