streamlined, aerodynamic, flowing, sleek
(adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow; “a streamlined convertible”
flow, flowing
(noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flowing
present participle of flow
flowing (plural flowings)
The action of the verb to flow
flowing (comparative more flowing, superlative most flowing)
Tending to flow.
Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• (tending to flow): fluent, streaming; see also flowing
• fast-flowing
• fastest-flowing
• Wilfong, folwing, fowling, wolfing
Source: Wiktionary
Flow"ing, a.
Definition: That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight.
– Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.
– Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten.
Flow"ing,
Definition: a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.
Flow, obs.
Definition: imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
Flow, v. i. [imp. & p. p. FFlowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] Etym: [AS. flowan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. floa to deluge, Gr. float, fleet. *80. Cf. Flood.]
1. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
2. To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. Is. lxiv. 3.
3. To pproceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. Milton.
4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. Dryden.
5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.
6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. The imperial purple flowing in his train. A. Hamilton.
7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. Shak.
8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
Flow, v. t.
1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
2. To cover with varnish.
Flow, n.
1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope.
4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
