flowing

[ floh-ing ]

/ ˈfloʊ ɪŋ /

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adjective

moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.

proceeding smoothly or easily; facile: flowing language.

long, smooth, graceful, and without sudden interruption or change of direction: flowing lines; flowing gestures.

hanging loosely at full length: flowing hair.

abounding; having in excess: a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Origin of flowing

before 950; Middle English flowynge,Old English flōwende.See flow, -ing²

flow·ing·ly, adverbflow·ing·ness, nounself-flowing, adjectiveun·flow·ing, adjective

This weekend, however, it moves to full operational capacity, with a ChurchKey-esque 50 drafts open and flowing.
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On innumerable campuses, students are being harmed by speech-restriction regimes that chill the free flowing of intellectual differences.
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Not just love between people but love within your HEART, flowing in all aspects of your life.
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Their money, often collected for many years, helps keep the system afloat and benefits flowing to aging baby boomers.
How Immigrants Will Save Social Security|Eleanor Clift|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

There was money flowing everywhere… there was a lot of corruption around law enforcement.
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Hoop skirts of the Civil War era relaxed into flowing, streamlined gowns.
The Best-Dressed Way to Say Goodbye|Justin Jones|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His multinote improvisations were so thick and complex they were almost flowing out of the horn by themselves.
The Stacks: John Coltrane’s Mighty Musical Quest|Nat Hentoff|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He felt that all her force, like a strong and ardent stream, was flowing into the new channel which he had cut for her.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
Therefore, the total circulation exceeds the total flow from and to banks by the amount flowing through "nondepositors."
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
His expletives were varied, vivid and inexhaustible, and the turbid stream was easily set flowing.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Of course, it was the same gallon or two pumped around and around, but clear, flowing water is a sight on Mars.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
She was in a loose and, to him, a mysterious white and flowing garment, with sleeves that fell away from her arms like wings.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens