flowとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English flowen, from 古期英語 flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Compare float.

名詞

flow (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 flows)

1. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
2. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

3. (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.

   The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.

4. The rising movement of the tide.
5. Smoothness or continuity.

   The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.

6. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.

   Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.

   Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.

7. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
8. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
9. The emission of blood during menstruation.

   Tampons can be small or large, slender or thick. From “slender” to “super”, you can pick the size that matches your flow.

10. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.

    The production on his new mixtape is mediocre but his flow is on point.

同意語

• (continuity): See also Thesaurus:continuity

反意語

• (movement of the tide): ebb
• (continuity): See also Thesaurus:discontinuity

下位語

派生語

• ebb and flow
• flowchart
• flowmeter
• freeflow
• single-flow

Further reading

• flow on Wikipedia.
• Flow (psychology) on Wikipedia.

動詞

flow (三人称単数 現在形 flows, 現在分詞 flowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 flowed)

1. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.

   Rivers flow from springs and lakes.

   Tears flow from the eyes.

2. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.

   Wealth flows from industry and economy.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.

3. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

   The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.

4. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Joel 3:18:

     In that day […] the hills shall flow with milk.

   • (Can we date this quote by Prof. Wilson かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl

5. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.

   a flowing mantle; flowing locks

   • (Can we date this quote by A. Hamilton かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     the imperial purple flowing in his train

6. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.

   The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.

7. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
8. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
9. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
10. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

派生語

• flowable, reflowable
• free-flowing
• overflow
• underflow

語源 2

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).

名詞

flow (複数形 flows)

1. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.

参照

• “flow, n.2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “flow, v., n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

アナグラム

• Wolf, fowl, wolf