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# flowing

«flowing» in Mova's school dictionary: **moving along smoothly, as water does in a river** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (flow, flows, flowed, flowing); adjective (flowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Flowing means moving along smoothly, as water does in a river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#m1)

2) Flowing can describe hair, clothes or lines that are long, smooth and loose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#m2)

3) Flowing speech or writing goes on smoothly without stopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography, water is flowing in rivers from high ground to the sea; liquids flow but solids keep their shape. Electricity flowing in a circuit is called current. In safety, flowing water is stronger than it looks: never cross a flowing river or a flooded road, and stay out of storm drains. In writing, joined-up handwriting should be flowing. Phrases: free-flowing, flowing water, flowing hair.

### examples

- The river is flowing towards the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x1)
- Water keeps flowing down the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x2)
- Flowing water in a flood can sweep a car away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x3)
- Her long flowing hair blew in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x4)
- Electric current is flowing round the circuit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x5)
- Honey is flowing slowly off the spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x6)
- The princess wore a flowing gown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x7)
- His writing was neat and flowing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x8)
- Now in came the South Wind, with a turban and a flowing Bedouin cloak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/#x9)

### note

Flow is regular: flowed, flowing. Do not confuse «flowed» with «flown» (from fly). Liquids and gases flow; this is how scientists tell them from solids. Fast-flowing water is dangerous even when shallow.

### In the corpora

- [An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing, not by crushing bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/5/)
- [An amoeba moves by flowing its inside forward into a bulge called a false foot, and it swallows food by flowing around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/17/)
- [Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/16/)
- [Fewer waves break over a rip, because the water there is deeper and flowing out, so a rip looks calmer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/9/)
- [The plates are always moving, very slowly, about as fast as your fingernails grow, carried on the slowly flowing mantle below.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flowing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flowing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.