n.

1. the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases);
   flowing
2. the amount of fluid that flows in a given time;
   flow rate, rate of flow
3. the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression;
   stream
4. any uninterrupted stream or discharge
5. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;
   stream
   
   • a stream of people emptied from the terminal
   • the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
6. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;
   stream, current
   
   • two streams of development run through American history
   • stream of consciousness
   • the flow of thought
   • the current of history
7. 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;
   menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period

v.

1. move or progress freely as if in a stream;
   flux
   
   • The crowd flowed out of the stadium
2. move along, of liquids;
   run, feed, course
   
   • Water flowed into the cave
   • the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
3. cause to flow
   
   • The artist flowed the washes on the paper
4. be abundantly present
   
   • The champagne flowed at the wedding
5. fall or flow in a certain way;
   hang, fall
   
   • This dress hangs well
   • Her long black hair flowed down her back
6. cover or swamp with water
7. undergo menstruation;
   menstruate
   
   • She started menstruating at the age of 11