<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea</li><li>to circulate: blood flowing through one's veins</li><li>to stream or well forth: Warmth flows from the sun</li><li>to issue or proceed from a source: Orders flowed from the office</li><li>to menstruate</li><li>to come or go as in a stream: A constant stream of humanity flowed by</li><li>to proceed continuously and smoothly: Melody flowed from the violin</li><li>to hang loosely at full length: Her hair flowed over her shoulders</li><li>to abound in something: The tavern flowed with wine</li><li>to rise and advance, as the tide (ebb)</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act of flowing</li><li>movement in or as if in a stream</li><li>the rate of flowing</li><li>the volume of fluid that flows through a passage of any given section during a unit of time: Oil flow of the well was 500 barrels a day</li><li>something that flows; stream</li><li>an outpouring or discharge of something, as in a stream: a flow of blood</li><li>menstruation</li><li>an overflowing; flood</li><li>the rise of the tide (ebb)</li><li>Machinery: progressive distortion of a metal object under continuous service at high temperature</li><li>Physics: the transference of energy: heat flow</li></ul>