flowとは

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”).

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. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
8. 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.

9. (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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     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?) Dryden

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Joel iii. 18

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

   • (Can we date this quote?) Prof. Wilson

     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?) A. Hamilton

     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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     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

名詞

flow (複数形 flows)

1. (Scotland) A morass or marsh.

アナグラム

• Wolf, fowl, wolf