Definitions for flowing

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flowing flow·ing

Spelling: [floh-ing]

IPA: /ˈfloʊ ɪŋ/

Flowing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in flowing (fgilnow).

Definitions for flowing

noun

1. an act of flowing.
2. movement in or as if in a stream.
3. the rate of flowing.
4. the volume of fluid that flows through a passage of any given section during a unit of time:
5. something that flows; stream.
6. an outpouring or discharge of something, as in a stream:
7. menstruation.
8. an overflowing; flood.
9. the rise of the tide (opposed to ebb).
10. Machinery. progressive distortion of a metal object under continuous service at high temperature.
11. Physics. the transference of energy:

adjective

1. moving in or as in a stream:
2. proceeding smoothly or easily; facile:
3. long, smooth, graceful, and without sudden interruption or change of direction:
4. hanging loosely at full length:
5. abounding; having in excess:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause or permit to flow:
2. to cover with water or other liquid; flood.

verb (used without object)

1. to move along in a stream:
2. to circulate:
3. to stream or well forth:
4. to issue or proceed from a source:
5. to menstruate.
6. to come or go as in a stream:
7. to proceed continuously and smoothly:
8. to hang loosely at full length:
9. to abound in something:
10. to rise and advance, as the tide (opposed to ebb).

Origin of flowing

before 950; Middle English flowynge, Old English flōwende. See flow, -ing²

Examples for flowing

Will you make a virtue of necessity, or will you give laws to the flowing tide?

Be very passive as the air leaves your lungs and leaves your mouth, mimicking the sounds of ocean waves ebbing and flowing.

What call had people to start reading when the talk was flowing so free and pleasant?

Dix, a founding member of the RCP, spoke in a flowing diatribe as we walked amid the crowd that night.

And I don't mind your drowning sorrow in the flowing bowl, either.

There was a sinister thread in that flowing note, and suddenly Dick remembered.

Not just love between people but love within your HEART, flowing in all aspects of your life.

Hoop skirts of the Civil War era relaxed into flowing, streamlined gowns.

The loose, flowing robe of her daily wear is of classic grace and dignity.

It was only the 8th minute of the game, and Argentina was flowing with dangerous vigor.