(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
(v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
(v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(v. t.) To cover with varnish.
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(3) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(5) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(6) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(7) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(8) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(9) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(10) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(11) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(12) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(14) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(15) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(16) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(17) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
(18) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(19) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
(20) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
Gurgle
Definition:
(v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
(n.) The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."
Example Sentences:
(1) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
(2) The gurgling noise was caused by the gastroesophageal reflux of gas and the pain was associated with profound esophageal distention.
(3) For those not familiar with the Big-Phil-Little-Ney dynamic in the flesh, Brazil’s first press conference on the eve of the tournament was intriguing, so gurglingly affectionate are the pair of them in public.
(4) Are there really "nine sleeps 'til new Who" you gurgling oaf?
(5) I woke to one of the world's most exceptional views: the Ponte Vecchio in one direction, the Uffizi in the other, with the Arno gurgling by just inches away.
(6) [LAUGH] Your shaggy limbs and the bristling hair on your forearms Suggest a fierce male virtue [CHUCKLE]; but the surgeon called in to lance your swollen piles [BIG LAUGH] dissolves in laughter [GURGLE] at the sight of that well-smoothed passage [ROAR].
(7) When all the pretty dancing lights went on Hannah smiled, gurgled and followed them perfectly with both eyes.
(8) 7.37pm BST "Before seeing your bit about Rafa lifting the trophy and flipping Vs at the Chelsea fans, I'd spent the afternoon trying to imagine a scenario where Benitez gets to 'win' but Chelsea and their fans don't get to boast about having two European trophies," gurgles Alistair Mackay.
(9) One track, Ultra Thizz, has fans on Soundcloud posting things like "head asplode" and "skull fukt" thanks to its onslaught of mangled chipmunk vocals, ricocheting synth stabs, rapidly accelerating rhythms and gurgling bass.
(10) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(11) He told the Guardian that “gurgling and choking” noises could be heard, but he couldn’t see from where.
(12) Our longest placement, and far too gorgeous to have ever been a blood relation, Ben's dark eyes, cherubic hair and gurgling giggle masked an array of health problems that meant that life for those 18 months was an endless round of hospital visits, as the house overflowed with specialist equipment.
(13) It could never be too salty for me, madam,” Turner gurgles suggestively.
(14) Rewind an hour, before the dash to Palin, and here he is, the Great Linneck, downstairs in the stucco splendour of the Royal Institute of British Architects building in London, attentive, polite and always on the verge of that familiar gurgling laugh.
(15) All the canvases feature babies: gurgling smiles, downy hair, chubby wrists.
(16) All 14 cases, with the exception of one Yapese, were previously healthy, male Filipinos, aged 23 to 55, who were either found dead in bed, or described by their colleagues as having nocturnal seizure activity consisting of gurgling, frothing, and tongue biting immediately prior to death.
(17) "That's all me, baby – I drank a lot of coffee that day," she trills in her Minnie Mouse-ish voice, halfway between a giggle and a gurgle.
(18) Though they chose not to be filmed, Emma speaks to me on the phone, the soft gurgle of her now one-year-old daughter just audible.
(19) Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals.
(20) Review of medical records of 78 horses admitted to the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals with dorsal displacement of the soft palate revealed 94% of these horses to have evidence of an intermittent abnormal "gurgling" respiratory noise at the time of exercise.