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  1. intransitive verb To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.
  2. intransitive verb To issue in a stream; pour forth: Sap flowed from the gash in the tree.
  3. intransitive verb To circulate, as the blood in the body.
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  • Fitch expects the proportion of cash flow from the Latin America region will rise considerably due to ongoing investment in new projects including coal plants in Chile. 2008 distributions from the utilities segment of business comprised 18\% while 82\% came from the power generation segment.
  • The data flow is then maximum and can reach the 10 MG / s. —  MacBytes.com
  • This band continues to impress with an even stronger effort than Define the Great Line musically, and the flow is almost flawless. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • But the flow was a little unsteady at the beginning. —  The Pitch | Complete Issue
  • Technology companies are poised to tap into the billions of dollars that will flow from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into new federal, state and local initiatives. —  Washington Technology Current Issue
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stream ·  pressure ·  energy ·  supply ·  rate ·  current ·  source ·  activity ·  volume

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flow:   flowed ·  flowing ·  flows
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  1. Middle English flouen, from Old English flōwan; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English flowen, from Anglo-Saxon flōwan (preterit fleów, plural fleówen, past participle flōwen), flow, = Dutch vloeijen = Middle Low German vlōien, vlōigen, Low German floien, flojen, flow, = Old High German flouwen, flewen, flawen, Middle High German vlouwen, vlewen, vlöen, flæen, fleun, etc., German dial. flauen, wash, rinse (in running water), = Icelandic flōa, flood, also boil milk; cf. Greek πλώειν, Ionic form equivalent to Greek πλέειν, πλεῑν (√ *πλε#567), sail, go by sea, float, swim, = Latin pluere, rain (pluit, it rains), Sanskrit √ plu, float, swim, sail, hover, fly; a shorter form of the root which appears in Anglo-Saxon fleótan, English fleet, float, etc., and the derived Anglo-Saxon flotian, English float: see fleet and float. Hence flood, q. v.
  2. from flow, v.
  3. Scots, from Icelandic flōi, a marshy moor, also a bay or large frith, from flōa, flood: see flow.
 

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