What part of speech is flows?

Flows can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. flows is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of flow (infinitive).
  • 2. flows is a noun, plural of flow.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does flows mean?

Definitions

Verb

flow - move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
flow - cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
flow - be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
flow - cover or swamp with water
flow - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
flow - undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
flow - fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

Noun

flow - the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
flow - any uninterrupted stream or discharge
flow - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
flow - the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
flow - 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
flow - something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
flow - dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

Examples of flows

#   Sentence  
1. noun I am forwarding for your attention the resume of Peter Percell who has an extensive experience in modeling physical flows of natural gas in pipeline systems.
2. noun When a coil is moved near to a wire with current flowing in it current flows in the coil as well.
3. noun Everything flows, nothing stands still.
4. noun "The French language flows." "Yes, like diarrhea flows."
5. noun Everything flows.
6. noun According to traditional Chinese medicine, meridians are a path through which a person's life-energy, or qi, flows.
7. noun Activists lobbied for the removal of a number of dams, so that natural water flows could be restored to the affected rivers.
8. noun Everything flows and nothing stays still.
9. noun The blood of heroes flows in my veins.
10. noun Everything flows and nothing remains.
11. noun Images of Europa's surface show ice that has broken up into ice flows, suggesting that water beneath the surface is moving and cracking the ice.
12. noun Petrified trees in Yellowstone are the result of volcanic debris flows that occurred about 50 million years ago.
13. noun "Spare, O AEneas, spare a wretch, nor shame / thy guiltless hands, but let the dead repose. / From Troy, no alien to thy race, I came. / O, fly this greedy shore, these cruel foes! / Not from the tree – from Polydorus flows / this blood, for I am Polydorus. Here / an iron crop o'erwhelmed me, and uprose / bristling with pointed javelins."
14. noun "First must Trinacrian waters bend the oar, / Ausonian waves thy vessels must explore, / first must thou view the nether world, where flows / dark Styx, and visit that AEaean shore, / the home of Circe, ere, at rest from woes, / thou build the promised walls, and win the wished repose."
15. noun The eruption produced pyroclastic flows – a mixture of hot gas, lava and other volcanic material – that traveled up to two kilometers from the volcano’s crater.
16. verb Dignitaries condemn the act but visit her bereaved family and the money flows.
17. verb Our letter agreement simply memorializes that we will charge the same negotiated rate whether the gas flows on primaries or alternates.
18. verb Here's everything that flows from 5/1/01 forward.
19. verb Living out of synch with nature is the great disease, from that flows all the tributaries we have come to think of as sickness.
20. verb The Maruyama river flows through Kinosaki.
21. verb The river that flows through London is the Thames.
22. verb The river which flows through London is called the Thames.
23. verb The Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
24. verb The river which flows through Paris is the Seine.
25. verb The Thames is a river that flows through London.
26. verb The river flows between the two countries.
27. verb The river flows down to the sea.
28. verb The river flows into the Sea of Japan.
29. verb The river flows along the north of island.
30. verb The river flows through the town.
Sentence  
noun
I am forwarding for your attention the resume of Peter Percell who has an extensive experience in modeling physical flows of natural gas in pipeline systems.
When a coil is moved near to a wire with current flowing in it current flows in the coil as well.
Everything flows, nothing stands still.
"The French language flows." "Yes, like diarrhea flows."
Everything flows.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, meridians are a path through which a person's life-energy, or qi, flows.
Activists lobbied for the removal of a number of dams, so that natural water flows could be restored to the affected rivers.
Everything flows and nothing stays still.
The blood of heroes flows in my veins.
Everything flows and nothing remains.
Images of Europa's surface show ice that has broken up into ice flows, suggesting that water beneath the surface is moving and cracking the ice.
Petrified trees in Yellowstone are the result of volcanic debris flows that occurred about 50 million years ago.
"Spare, O AEneas, spare a wretch, nor shame / thy guiltless hands, but let the dead repose. / From Troy, no alien to thy race, I came. / O, fly this greedy shore, these cruel foes! / Not from the tree – from Polydorus flows / this blood, for I am Polydorus. Here / an iron crop o'erwhelmed me, and uprose / bristling with pointed javelins."
"First must Trinacrian waters bend the oar, / Ausonian waves thy vessels must explore, / first must thou view the nether world, where flows / dark Styx, and visit that AEaean shore, / the home of Circe, ere, at rest from woes, / thou build the promised walls, and win the wished repose."
The eruption produced pyroclastic flows – a mixture of hot gas, lava and other volcanic material – that traveled up to two kilometers from the volcano’s crater.
verb
Dignitaries condemn the act but visit her bereaved family and the money flows.
Our letter agreement simply memorializes that we will charge the same negotiated rate whether the gas flows on primaries or alternates.
Here's everything that flows from 5/1/01 forward.
Living out of synch with nature is the great disease, from that flows all the tributaries we have come to think of as sickness.
The Maruyama river flows through Kinosaki.
The river that flows through London is the Thames.
The river which flows through London is called the Thames.
The Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
The river which flows through Paris is the Seine.
The Thames is a river that flows through London.
The river flows between the two countries.
The river flows down to the sea.
The river flows into the Sea of Japan.
The river flows along the north of island.
The river flows through the town.

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