flow

Etymology 1
From, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was.

Noun

 * 1) Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
 * 2) The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
 * 3)  A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
 * 4) The rising movement of the tide.
 * 5) Smoothness or continuity.
 * 6) The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
 * 7) A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
 * 8)  A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
 * 9) The emission of blood during menstruation.
 * 10)  The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
 * 11)  The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
 * 1) A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
 * 2)  A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
 * 3) The emission of blood during menstruation.
 * 4)  The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
 * 5)  The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
 * 1)  The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
 * 2)  The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
 * 1)  The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
 * 1)  The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:continuity

Antonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:discontinuity
 * See also Thesaurus:discontinuity

Translations

 * Arabic: تَدَفُّق
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: fluxu, fluxu
 * Basque: etorri
 * Belarusian: цячэ́нне, плынь, пато́к
 * Blackfoot: áwa'kimsska
 * Breton: beradur
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: юх
 * Czech:, proudění
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fluo, alfluo
 * Estonian: vool
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: fluxo
 * Georgian: დინება, დენა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥεῦμα, ῥοία
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sreabh, sileadh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Karachay-Balkar: агъым
 * Kashubian: cec
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: tekme
 * Latin: fluxus
 * Latvian:
 * Luhya: omuhula
 * Macedonian: тек, тече́ние
 * Marathi: वाहने
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Fluss
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̑к, тѐче̄ње
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: prúd, tok
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: агыш
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: kucur
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: течі́я, те́ча, плин, плив,, струм
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: fluxu
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alfluo
 * Estonian: tõus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: riflusso,
 * Macedonian: при́лив
 * Norman: fllot
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: fluxo da maré
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lìonadh
 * Slovak: príliv
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: sujuvus, ladusus
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Uzbek:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: vool
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: про́ток
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: een zijn met
 * Finnish:
 * German: Tätigkeitsrausch
 * Greek: είμαι ένα με
 * Russian:


 * Breton:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from , lengthened o- form of.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬. Not cognate with despite similarity.

Verb

 * 1)  To move as a fluid from one position to another.
 * 2)  To proceed; to issue forth.
 * 3)  To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
 * 4)  To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
 * 5)  To hang loosely and wave.
 * 6)  To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
 * 7)  To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
 * 8)  To allow (a liquid) to flow.
 * 9)  To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
 * 10)  To cover with varnish.
 * 11)  To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
 * 1)  To hang loosely and wave.
 * 2)  To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
 * 3)  To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
 * 4)  To allow (a liquid) to flow.
 * 5)  To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
 * 6)  To cover with varnish.
 * 7)  To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
 * 1)  To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
 * 2)  To allow (a liquid) to flow.
 * 3)  To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
 * 4)  To cover with varnish.
 * 5)  To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
 * 1)  To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
 * 2)  To cover with varnish.
 * 3)  To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
 * 1)  To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

Translations

 * Acehnese: ile
 * Afrikaans:, stroom,
 * Aklanon: ilog, sueog
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Andi: чвахуниду
 * Arabic: تَدَفَّقَ
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: cur
 * Assamese: বোৱা, বৈ যোৱা
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: чвахизе
 * Aymara:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ағыу
 * Belarusian: цячы́
 * Bengali: প্রবাহিত হওয়া
 * Breton: deverañ,
 * Bulgarian:, лея се
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 流
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: frosa
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: strømme
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: voolama
 * Even: эендэй
 * Evenki: эендеми
 * Ewe:
 * Extremaduran: correl
 * Faroese: floyma, ,
 * Fijian:, sali
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: scori
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დინება, დენა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ῥέω
 * Gujarati:
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: kahe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Ingrian: vallua, virrata
 * Interlingua: fluer
 * Irish: sreabh, snigh
 * Old Irish: snigid
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: kocor,
 * Kannada:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ໄຫຼ
 * Latin: fluō
 * Lithuanian:, tekė́ti
 * Lü: ᦺᦜ
 * Luxembourgish: fléissen
 * Malay:
 * Jawi:, الير, سالور, سالير
 * Rumi:, alir, , salir
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡝᠶᡝᠮᠪᡳ
 * Manx: sheel
 * Maori: pūheke
 * Marathi: वाहने, वाहने
 * Mirandese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: хэе-
 * Navajo: nílį́
 * Norwegian: flomme, strømme, fløda, fløyma
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: тещи
 * Old East Slavic: течи
 * Old Javanese: ili
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: fluir
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sruth, sil, ruith
 * Serbo-Croatian: teći, тећи
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: ගලා යාම
 * Slovak: tiecť
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: běžaś
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: kucur
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tabaru: uisi
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: suli
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: акмак
 * Ukrainian: текти́
 * Urdu: بہنا
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: оқмоқ
 * Venetian: scórare
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa:
 * Yiddish: פֿליסן
 * Yoruba:
 * Zealandic: stroôme
 * Zulu: goboza


 * Afrikaans:
 * Finnish:, soljua,
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tuanaki, kaunuku


 * Italian:
 * Maori: pākato, pari, heru, kato


 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Telugu:

Etymology 3
. Perhaps from 🇨🇬, see. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A morass or marsh.

Noun

 * 1)  style
 * 1)  style

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   the ability to rap skillfully

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   the ability to rap skillfully
 * 2)   as in