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say it: floh
flow is a noun and verb meaning "the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)". It is pronounced /ˈfloʊ/ — floh. It carries 14 recorded senses.
the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
any uninterrupted stream or discharge
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
“the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation”
“a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped”
“the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females”
cause to flow
“The artist flowed the washes on the paper”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.