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Flow

Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.

Pronunciation: /ˈfləʊ̯/, [ˈfləʊ̯]

What “Flow” means

Noun

Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.

Verb

To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
To hang loosely and wave.

Noun

A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.

From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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