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noun
- the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
- the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- the release of electrons from parent atoms
- a substance that is emitted or released
- The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
- (non-native speakers' English, broadcasting) A show; a program.
- Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
noun
prefix
noun
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (figurative) A regression.
- A step backwards
verb
- To retract or take back.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- the property of flowing easily
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
- (uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.
- (finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
- (finance) The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash.
- (economics, countable) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
noun
- the property of flowing easily
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- The quality of being liquid (flowing state of matter).
- (finance) The quality of being liquid (easily sold or disposed of).
noun
- The associated flow of water.
- The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
- A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
- (mining) The period of twelve hours.
- The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
- the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
- there are usually two high and two low tides each day
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To pour a tide or flood.
- (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- (by extension, originally from the idea of being carried by the tide, now chiefly in the phrase tide over) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
- (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- cause to float with the tide
- be carried with the tide
- rise or move forward
verb
noun
verb
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
adj
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
noun
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
adv
verb
- flow in a spurt
- supply in large amounts or quantities
- rain heavily
- move in large numbers
- cause to run
- pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment
- Misspelling of pore.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
- (transitive) To move (a drunk or unsteady person) into or out of a place or vehicle.
- (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
- (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
- (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
- (impersonal) To rain hard.
- (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
- (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
noun
adv
adj
verb
- direct the flow of
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- send from one person or place to another
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
noun
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a television station and its programs
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The navigable part of a river.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
noun
- a flow or discharge
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- in constant change
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
- A state of ongoing change.
verb
adj
noun
- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- (fashion) A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
- a route shorter than the usual one
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
adj
verb
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- flow back or recede
- hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- fall away or decline
adj
noun
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- The receding movement of the tide.
- the outward flow of the tide
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
noun
- the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.)
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- (theology) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.
- The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
- That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
noun
- (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
- (UK, Ireland, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, slang) A small child.
- A small, quick stream; a jet.
- A burst of noise.
- (slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
- (informal) An act of urination.
- A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Female ejaculate.
- An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
- someone who is small and insignificant
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
verb
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
- (transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
- To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.
- (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To 3D print (a firearm).
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
- (transitive, by extension) To emit, eject or excrete (something).
- cause to come out in a squirt
- wet with a spurt of liquid
adj
noun
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
verb
- flow intermittently
- deliver forth
- draw or pour with a pump
- raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
- supply in great quantities
- move up and down
- operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
- question persistently
- (British, slang, vulgar) To pass gas; to fart quietly.
- (colloquial) To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
- (transitive) To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To fire a bullet from a firearm.
- (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
- (sports) To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
- (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
- (bodybuilding) To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
- To load a shell into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun by pumping the mechanism.
- (US, intransitive, slang) Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
- (transitive) To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
noun
- a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
- the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
- a low-cut shoe without fastenings
- A dancing shoe.
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
- (British) A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
- (US, slang) The heart.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- (bodybuilding, climbing) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
verb
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- pour as if from a sluice
noun
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
noun
- an artificially produced flow of water
- a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
- a natural flow of ground water
- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
- (figurative) A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
verb
noun
- an artificially produced flow of water
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
adj
verb
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- cause to flow
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- be abundantly present
- move along, of liquids
- undergo menstruation
- cover or swamp with water
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
noun
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
- (rap music jargon) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- (Scotland) A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
noun
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- The way in which something hangs.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
noun
verb
verb
- flow or spill forth
- give out or emit (also metaphorically)
- pour out liberally
- (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
- (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off.
- (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
noun
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
adj
noun
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
- (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
- A live stream.
- Current, the force of moving water.
- (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
- (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- An instance of streaming digital data.
verb
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
- rain heavily
- move in large numbers
- flow freely and abundantly
- exude profusely
- (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
- (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
- (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
- (Internet) To livestream.
- (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
noun
- flow under pressure
- an unrestrained expression of emotion
- (figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
- (chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
- A liquid outpouring.
- (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.
noun
- the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
- the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- the release of electrons from parent atoms
- a substance that is emitted or released
- The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
- (non-native speakers' English, broadcasting) A show; a program.
- Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
noun
noun
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (figurative) A regression.
- A step backwards
verb
- To retract or take back.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- the property of flowing easily
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
- (uncountable) The state or property of being liquid.
- (finance) Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
- (finance) The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash.
- (economics, countable) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
noun
- the property of flowing easily
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- The quality of being liquid (flowing state of matter).
- (finance) The quality of being liquid (easily sold or disposed of).
noun
- The associated flow of water.
- The tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- Any similar gravitational effect on Earth or other body.
- A high-volume flow, literal or figurative; a current or flood.
- (mining) The period of twelve hours.
- The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.
- the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
- there are usually two high and two low tides each day
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To pour a tide or flood.
- (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
- (by extension, originally from the idea of being carried by the tide, now chiefly in the phrase tide over) To carry over or through a problem or difficulty.
- (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
- cause to float with the tide
- be carried with the tide
- rise or move forward
noun
- a flow or discharge
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- in constant change
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
- A state of ongoing change.
verb
adj
noun
- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- (fashion) A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
- a route shorter than the usual one
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
adj
noun
- the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.)
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- (theology) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.
- The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
- That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
noun
- (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
- (UK, Ireland, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, slang) A small child.
- A small, quick stream; a jet.
- A burst of noise.
- (slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
- (informal) An act of urination.
- A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Female ejaculate.
- An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
- someone who is small and insignificant
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
verb
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
- (transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
- To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.
- (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To 3D print (a firearm).
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
- (transitive, by extension) To emit, eject or excrete (something).
- cause to come out in a squirt
- wet with a spurt of liquid
noun
- an artificially produced flow of water
- a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
- a natural flow of ground water
- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
- (figurative) A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
verb
noun
- an artificially produced flow of water
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
adj
verb
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
noun
verb
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- cause to flow
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- be abundantly present
- move along, of liquids
- undergo menstruation
- cover or swamp with water
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
noun
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
- (rap music jargon) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- (Scotland) A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
noun
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
- (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
- A live stream.
- Current, the force of moving water.
- (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
- (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- An instance of streaming digital data.
verb
- to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
- rain heavily
- move in large numbers
- flow freely and abundantly
- exude profusely
- (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
- (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
- (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
- (Internet) To livestream.
- (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
noun
- flow under pressure
- an unrestrained expression of emotion
- (figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
- (chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
- A liquid outpouring.
- (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.
verb
noun
verb
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
adj
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
noun
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
adv
verb
- flow in a spurt
- supply in large amounts or quantities
- rain heavily
- move in large numbers
- cause to run
- pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment
- Misspelling of pore.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
- (transitive) To move (a drunk or unsteady person) into or out of a place or vehicle.
- (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
- (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
- (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
- (impersonal) To rain hard.
- (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
- (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
noun
verb
- direct the flow of
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- send from one person or place to another
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
noun
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a television station and its programs
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The navigable part of a river.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- flow back or recede
- hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- fall away or decline
adj
noun
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- The receding movement of the tide.
- the outward flow of the tide
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
noun
- a flow or discharge
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- in constant change
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
- A state of ongoing change.
verb
adj
verb
- flow intermittently
- deliver forth
- draw or pour with a pump
- raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
- supply in great quantities
- move up and down
- operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
- question persistently
- (British, slang, vulgar) To pass gas; to fart quietly.
- (colloquial) To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
- (transitive) To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To fire a bullet from a firearm.
- (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
- (sports) To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
- (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
- (bodybuilding) To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
- To load a shell into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun by pumping the mechanism.
- (US, intransitive, slang) Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
- (transitive) To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
noun
- a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
- the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
- a low-cut shoe without fastenings
- A dancing shoe.
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
- (British) A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
- (US, slang) The heart.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- (bodybuilding, climbing) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
verb
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- pour as if from a sluice
noun
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- come as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- go as if by falling
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- That which falls or cascades.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- cause to flow
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- be abundantly present
- move along, of liquids
- undergo menstruation
- cover or swamp with water
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
noun
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
- (rap music jargon) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- (Scotland) A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
verb
- fall or flow in a certain way
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
noun
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- The way in which something hangs.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
verb
- flow or spill forth
- give out or emit (also metaphorically)
- pour out liberally
- (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
- (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
- (transitive) To emit; to give off.
- (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
noun
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
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adv
adj
adj
noun
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts