FLOWAGE

flood, flowage

(noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

flowage

(noun) a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area; “many campsites were located near the flowage”

flowage

(noun) gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat); “rock fracture and rock flowage are different types of geological deformation”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

flowage (countable and uncountable, plural flowages)

A flowing or overflowing of liquid.

Source: Wiktionary


Flow"age (; 48), n.

Definition: An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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