flow
英 [fl??]
美[flo]
- vi. 流動，涌流；川流不息；飄揚(yáng)
- vt. 淹沒，溢過
- n. 流動；流量；漲潮，泛濫
- n. (Flow)人名；(英)弗洛
英英釋意
- 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
