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flow

英 [fləʊ] 美[flo]
  • vi. 流动,涌流;川流不息;飘扬
  • vt. 淹没,溢过
  • n. 流动;流量;涨潮,泛滥
  • n. (Flow)人名;(英)弗洛

英英释意


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