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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishflowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” wascoined byMihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.

Noun

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flow (countable anduncountable,pluralflows)

  1. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
  2. The movement of areal orfigurativefluid.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loudflow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
  3. (mathematics) Aformalization of the idea of themotion ofparticles in afluid, as agroupaction of thereal numbers on aset.
    The notion offlow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
  4. The rising movement of thetide.
  5. Smoothness orcontinuity.
    The room was small, but it had good symmetry andflow.
  6. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
    Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficientflow.
    Other devices measure waterflow in streams fed by melted ice.
  7. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare withreturn pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
  8. (psychology) A mental state characterized byconcentration,focus and enjoyment of a given task.
    • 2014 January 14, Alex Lockwood, “How to achieve a state of flow when running”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      The point aboutflow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experiencedflow, the happier they were." But the second is that enteringflow actually improves performance.
  9. Theemission ofblood duringmenstruation.
    Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches yourflow.
  10. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfullyrap along to abeat.
    The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but hisflow is on point.
    • 2003, “In da Club”, inGet Rich or Die Tryin', performed by50 Cent:
      Now shawty said she feelin' my style, she feelin' myflow[…] / Myflow, my show brought me the dough / That bought me all my fancy things
  11. (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece ofsoftware to perform some action.
    loginflow
    searchflow
    • 2015, Dan, “Best practices for tracking progress through a sign up flow”, insnowplow-usermailing list‎[2]:
      I'm setting up event tracking for a pretty standard, multi-step signupflow, and I'm wondering [...]
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the movement of a fluid
the rising movement of the tide
smoothness or continuity
rate of fluid movement
being at one with
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishflowen, fromOld Englishflōwan(“to flow”), fromProto-West Germanic*flōan, fromProto-Germanic*flōaną(“to flow”), fromProto-Indo-European*plōw-, lengthenedo-grade form of*plew-(“to fly, flow, run”).

Cognate withSaterland Frisianflouje(“to flow”),West Frisianfloeie(“to flow”),Dutchvloeien(“to flow”),Norwegianflo(“to flow”). Compare alsoEnglishfloat. Not cognate withLatinfluō despite similarity.

Verb

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flow (third-person singular simple presentflows,present participleflowing,simple past and past participleflowed)

  1. (intransitive) To move as afluid from one position to another.
    Riversflow from springs and lakes.
    Tearsflow from the eyes.
  2. (intransitive) Toproceed; toissueforth; to emanate.
    Wealthflows from industry and economy.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Those thousand decencies that dailyflow / From all her words and actions.
  3. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
    The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn'tflow.
    • 1697,Virgil, “Dedication”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      Virgil[…] is[…]sweet andflowing in his hexameters.
  4. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  5. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
    aflowing mantle
    flowing locks
  6. (intransitive) Torise, as thetide; opposed toebb.
    The tideflows twice in twenty-four hours.
    come in
    come up
  7. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; toreflow.
  8. (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
    • 1932, Carl Ernest Reistle,Paraffin and Congealing-Oil Problems, volumes340-349, page45:
      The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil isflowed from the tubing it lowers the pressure on the remaining oil and liberates more gas, thus causing additional oil to flow from the tubing.
  9. (transitive) To cover withwater or otherliquid; tooverflow; toinundate; toflood.
  10. (transitive) To cover withvarnish.
  11. (intransitive) Todischargeexcessiveblood from theuterus.
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Translations
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to move as a fluid
to move smoothly
to come in as the tide
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Etymology 3

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Uncertain. Perhaps fromOld Norseflói(“a large bay, firth”), seefloe. CompareScotsflow(“peat-bog, marsh”),Icelandicflói(“marshy ground”).

Noun

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flow (pluralflows)

  1. (Scotland) Abog ormire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
    • 1794, John Sinclair,The Statistical Account of Scotland, volume10, page328:
      […] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of theseflowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place.
    • 1871, Alexander Boswell,Poetical Works, page213:
      Ye'll stick in someflow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow
    • 1895, Crockett,Moss-Hags page xlii:
      Had been roughly laid with bog-wood dug from theflowes,
    • 1896, Proudlock,Borderland Muse, page 8:
      Dandering o'er ferney knowes, [...] Springing o'er bogs an'flowes, [...]
    • 1898 July 23,Shetland News, quoted in theEDD:
      If dey wirna a day apo' daflow dan he [it] wis nae man's bishaness.
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Dutch

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishflow.

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flow f orm (pluralflows)

  1. (music)rhythm,flow of music (particularly in jazz)
    Het duurde een paar nummers, maar toen de drummer eenmaal op gang kwam kreeg Baba Commandant deflow die essentieel is in afrobeat.
    It took a few songs, but once the drummer got going, Baba Commandant got therhythm that is essential in Afrobeat.
  2. (music)flow (ability to skilfully rap)
    Snoop rapt met zijn vertrouwd achtelozeflow.
    Snoop raps with his familiar casualflow.
  3. (psychology)flow (mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task)
    Je lichaam maakt onder stress extra adrenaline aan, waardoor je in eenflow raakt. Dat kan goed zijn voor je concentratie.
    Your body produces extra adrenaline under stress, which puts you in aflow. This can be good for your concentration.
  4. streak of successes
    Roger Federer verloor op de Australian Open kansloos van Novak Djokovic. Deflow die de Zwitser ooit had lijkt doorbroken.
    Roger Federer lost to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open without a chance. Thestreak that the Swiss once had seems to have been broken.

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flow m (pluralflows)

  1. (rap, music)flow
  2. flow(style)

Portuguese

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishflow.

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flow m

  1. (colloquial)flow(the ability torap skillfully)

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishflow.

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flow m

  1. (colloquial)flow(the ability torap skillfully)
  2. (colloquial, uncommon)flow(as ingo with the flow)
    ir con elflow ―go with theflow
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