Word Meanings - FLOWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That flows or for flowing ; gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery , a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can

Additional info about word: FLOWING

That flows or for flowing ; gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery , a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola. -- Flowing sheet , a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLOWING)

• Liquid
• Fluid
• liquescent
• melting
• running
• watery
• fluent
• soft
• mellifluous
• limpid
• flowing
• clear
• smooth
• Loose
• Unbound
• detached
• scattered
• sparse
• incompact
• vague
• inexact
• rambling
• dissolute
• licentious
• Mellifluous
• dulcet
• euphonious
• silvery

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLOWING)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to FLOWING)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• MELLIFLUENTLY
  In a mellifluent manner.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• BRAMBLING
  The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.