flow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfləʊ̯/|[ˈfləʊ̯]|/ˈflɵʊ̯/|[ˈflɵ̞ʊ̯]    美 /ˈfloʊ̯/|[ˈfloʊ̯]|/ˈflɔʊ̯/|[ˈflɔʊ̯]|/ˈfləʉ̯/|[ˈfləʉ̯]|/ˈflɘʉ̯/|[ˈflɘ̞ʉ̯]|/ˈflɐʉ̯/|[ˈflɐ̝ʉ̯]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude. countable,uncountable
  2. A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one. Scotland
    — […] 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 these flowes 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.
  3. The movement of a real or figurative fluid. countable,uncountable
    — 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 loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
  4. A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. countable,uncountable
    — The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
  5. The rising movement of the tide. countable,uncountable
  6. Smoothness or continuity. countable,uncountable
    — The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.
  7. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement. countable,uncountable
    — Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
  8. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant). countable,uncountable
  9. A mental state characterized by concentration, focus, and enjoyment of a given task. countable,uncountable
    — The point about flow is that it is enjoyable. As research has shown "the more often athletes experienced flow, the happier they were." But the second is that entering flow actually improves performance.
  10. The emission of blood during menstruation. countable,uncountable
    — Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.
  11. The ability to skillfully rap along to a beat. countable,uncountable
    — The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.
  12. The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action. countable,uncountable
    — login flow
动词 v.
  1. To move as a fluid from one position to another. intransitive
    — Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
  2. To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate. intransitive
    — Wealth flows from industry and economy.
  3. To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. intransitive
    — The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
  4. To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over. intransitive
    — […]in that day, that[…]the hils ſhall flow with milke,[…]a fountaine ſhall come forth of the houſe of the Lord,[…]
    New International Version translation: “In that day […] the hills will flow with milk; […] A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house […]
  5. To hang loosely and wave. intransitive
    — a flowing mantle
  6. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. intransitive
    — The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
    The river hath thrice flow’d, no ebb between;
  7. To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow. transitive
  8. To allow (a liquid) to flow. transitive
    — The action is usually progressive, and as a certain amount of oil is flowed 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. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. transitive
  10. To cover with varnish. transitive
  11. To discharge excessive blood from the uterus. intransitive

词形变化

flows plural flows present,singular,third-person flowing participle,present flowed participle,past flowed past flows plural

词汇关系

近义词
course flit flow flux fly fountain glide gush leak run rush slide slip spew spout stream
反义词
ebb halt stutter
上位词
motion
下位词
airflow antiflow control flow dark flow deal flow downflow inflow inviscid flow irrotational flow lava flow midflow non-Newtonian flow onflow outflow overflow postflow preflow reflow subflow upflow
衍生词
adjusted flow time aflow afterflow air flow ashflow autoflow backflow baseflow blood flow byflow cash flow cerebral blood flow coflow conflow contraflow control-flow graph counterflow crossflow data flow data flow diagram earthflow ebb and flow Fanno flow floodflow flowability flowage flowant flow art flow arts flow battery flow blue flow cell flow chart flowchart flow control flow cytometer flowcytometric flow cytometry flow diagram flower flow field flowgram flowgraph flowgraphy flowless flowlike flowline flowmap flowmeter flowmetric flowmotion flow motion flow network flow-on flow-on effect flow on effect flowpath flow production flow rate flowrate flow sheet flowsheet flowsnake flow state flowstone flow stress flowthrough flowtime flowtop flow tracer flow variable flowy foreflow free cash flow freeflow gene flow geneflow go with the flow go with the flow of traffic grainflow Hubble flow hyperflow hyperpycnal flow in flow in full flow interflow isentropic flow isocratic flow jet flow Knudsen flow laminar flow laminar flow hood lateral flow test lineflow mass flow microflow mindflow mudflow multiflow nanoflow newsflow nonflow off-flow only dead fish go with the flow page flow peak flow peak flow meter plastic flow pyroclastic flow rainflow return flow Ricci flow semiflow sheet flow single-flow slushflow stemflow stormflow streamflow superflow throughflow transverse flow effect turbulent flow uniflow uroflow wake flow waterflow water flow wordflow workflow overflow flowable reflowable flow out free-flowing full-flowing get one's juices flowing underflow

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.
词源 2
From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.
词源 3
Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
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