Flow in a sentence as a noun

Yes, work - where ideas would flow freely.

He's just an investor hoping for deal flow.

You've just disrupted my zen flow for my super productive day.

This should be fixed the old-fashioned way: By cutting off teh flow of money at the source.

My larger problem is in figuring out how it would fit into my daily work flow.

A lot of them are held there by a fear, not of losing the cash flow, but of losing the prestige or business card.

When you talk to them you realize that on Stack Overflow, answering questions is about learning.

An analogy for a memristor is an interesting kind of pipe that expands or shrinks when water flows through it.

We were the 1st to do a popup login flow for OpenID and several other cool things MySpace was doing to catch Facebook.

If water flows through the pipe in one direction, the diameter of the pipe increases, thus enabling the water to flow faster.

If water flows through the pipe in the opposite direction, the diameter of the pipe decreases, thus slowing down the flow of water.

Flow in a sentence as a verb

Just as with an electrical resistor, the flow of water through the pipe is faster if the pipe is shorter and/or it has a larger diameter.

[Edit: I last did this in 2006 and my recollection on some of the steps I took was faulty, so I've corrected them above and made it a little more flow-charty.

The problem is that huge and expensive amounts of infrastructure are designed an manufactured with a one-way power flow in mind.

One of the nicest things about Ember, IMO, is that you can model your entire application, from the model layer all the way up to the templates, with an FRP-like data flow.

If a product is rejected, it's expected to be replaced immediately without interrupting the flow of products heading out to new customers.

The water itself is analogous to electrical charge, the pressure at the input of the pipe is similar to voltage, and the rate of flow of the water through the pipe is like electrical current.

In the same way, I wouldn't expect a technical article reporting measurements of carbon flow in the environment to be published in a political science journal, even though climate change might have profound implications for global politics.

In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn't like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare.

A static analyzer can follow data flow easily, but it requires quite a bit of thinking for the programmer to do the same!The core motivation for managing effects la Haskell is not mathematical purity: its software engineering.

We try to rationalize the state of affairs by pointing out all the ways that Wall Street has an "unfair advantage" but the fact of the matter is that: what do you expect in a free market system that rewards every marginal advantage other than wealth to flow from less sophisticated people to more sophisticated ones?

Flow definitions

noun

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

See also: flowing

noun

the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

noun

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

See also: stream

noun

any uninterrupted stream or discharge

noun

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

See also: stream

noun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

See also: stream current

noun

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

See also: menstruation menses menstruum catamenia period

verb

move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

See also: flux

verb

move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

See also: feed course

verb

cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

verb

be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"

verb

fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

See also: hang fall

verb

cover or swamp with water

verb

undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"

See also: menstruate