What is the meaning of flow?

noun

• The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases.
  • synonyms: flowing
• The amount of fluid that flows in a given time.
  • synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow
• The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
  • synonyms: stream
• Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.
• Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.
  • usage: "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
  • synonyms: stream
• Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
  • usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
  • synonyms: stream, current
• The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause."the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped-Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females-Aristotle
  • synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period

verb

• Move or progress freely as if in a stream.
  • usage: "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
  • synonyms: flux
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, feed, course
• Cause to flow.
  • usage: "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
• Be abundantly present.
  • usage: "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
• Fall or flow in a certain way.
  • usage: "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
  • synonyms: hang, fall
• Cover or swamp with water.
• Undergo menstruation.
  • usage: "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
  • synonyms: menstruate