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- Dictionaryflowing/ˈfləʊɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. (especially of long hair or clothing) hanging or draping loosely and gracefully: "a long flowing gown of lavender silk" Similar Opposite
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FLOWING definition: 1. moving in one direction, especially continuously and easily: 2. produced in a smooth…. Learn more.
1. : moving smoothly and continuously in or as if in a stream. a flowing river. 2. a. : smooth and graceful. flowing handwriting. b. : hanging loosely and gracefully. a flowing gown. her long, flowing tresses. flowingly adverb. a flowingly graceful gesture.
FLOW definition: 1. (especially of liquids, gases, or electricity) to move in one direction, especially continuously…. Learn more.
To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid. b. To issue in a stream; pour forth: Sap flowed from the gash in the tree. 2. To circulate, as the blood in the body. 3. To move with a continual shifting of component particles: wheat flowing into the bin; traffic flowing through the tunnel. 4.
Flowing definition: moving in or as in a stream. See examples of FLOWING used in a sentence.
Anything flowing moves like liquid, such as the flowing water of a river or someone’s long, flowing hair. Even a conversation can be flowing if people have a lot to say to each other.
flowing in British English. (ˈfləʊɪŋ ) adjective. 1. (of liquids) moving as in a stream. like a steadily flowing river. One of its attractive habits is to fly closely over flowing streams in the sunshine and then to settle on sand or mud to have a drink. 2. (of tide water) advancing or rising.
1. moving in or as in a stream. flowing water. 2. proceeding smoothly or easily; facile. flowing language. 3. long, smooth, graceful, and without sudden interruption or change of direction. flowing lines. flowing gestures. 4. hanging loosely at full length. flowing hair. 5. abounding; having in excess. a land flowing with milk and honey.
[intransitive] (of liquid, gas or electricity) to move steadily and continuously in one direction. She lost control and the tears began to flow. + adv./prep. It's here that the river flows down into the ocean. Blood flowed from a cut on her head. This can prevent air from flowing freely to the lungs. the electric currents flowing through the cables
noun. an act of flowing. movement in or as if in a stream. the rate of flowing. the volume of fluid that flows through a passage of any given section during a unit of time: Oil flow of the well was 500 barrels a day. something that flows; stream. an outpouring or discharge of something, as in a stream: a flow of blood. menstruation.
