flow

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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• any uninterrupted stream or discharge

• the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

• the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

• the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

Verb

• undergo menstruation
  • She started menstruating at the age of 11
    

• cover or swamp with water

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

• be abundantly present
  • The champagne flowed at the wedding
    

• cause to flow
  • The artist flowed the washes on the paper
    

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  menstruation , menses , menstruum , catamenia , period , stream , current , flow rate , rate of flow , flowing , menstruate , hang , fall , run , feed , course , flux