flourish
— Noun
– English
~ (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
flourish
— Noun
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~ a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
flourishing
— Adjective
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~ very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
floury
— Adjective
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~ resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
flout
— Verb
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~ laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
flout
— Verb
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~ treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"
flouter
— Noun
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~ someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
flow
— Verb
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~ cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
flow
— Verb
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~ move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
flow
— Verb
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~ undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
flow
— Verb
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~ be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
flow
— Verb
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~ move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
flow away
— Verb
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~ flow off or away gradually; "The water flowed off from the pipe"
flow
— Verb
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~ fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
flow chart
— Noun
– English
~ a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system
flow
— Noun
– English
~ 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"--Hippocrates; "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"--Aristotle