Word Wednesday: Flow and Floe

It's been a crazy couple of weeks and not looking any better for another week coming. I'm just dashing in here to give you this week's Word Wednesday – something relatively simple: flow and floe

I'll start with the shorter (and more interesting) one:

FLOE \pronounced FLOH\ meaning a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.

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FLOW \pronounced FLOH\ 

 verb (used without object)

1. to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.

2. to circulate: blood flowing through one's veins.

3. to stream or well forth: Warmth flows from the sun.

4. to issue or proceed from a source: Orders flowed from the office.

5. to menstruate.

6. to come or go as in a stream: A constant stream of humanity flowed by.

7. to proceed continuously and smoothly: Melody flowed from the violin.|

8. to hang loosely at full length: Her hair flowed over her shoulders.

9. to abound in something: The tavern flowed with wine. 

10. to rise and advance, as the tide ( opposed to ebb).

Verb (used with object)

11.to cause or permit to flow: to flow paint on a wall before brushing.

12. to cover with water or other liquid; flood.

Noun

1. an act of flowing.

2. movement in or as if in a stream.

3. the rate of flowing.

4. the volume of fluid that flows through a passage of any given section during a unit of time: Oil flow of the well was 500 barrels a day.

5. something that flows; stream.

Origin: before 900; (v.) Middle English flowen, Old English flōwan; akin to Middle Low German vlōien, Old Norse flōa; (noun) late Middle English: surge of a wave, derivative of the v.

Related forms

flowable (adjective)
flowability (noun)
reflow (noun, verb)
underflow (noun)


That's it, folks! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to step away and go attend to Chancing Faith edits.





Sources: Dictionary(dot)com and WordWeb.
Sources: Dictionary(dot)com and WordWeb.
Sources: Dictionary(dot)com and WordWeb.
Sources: Dictionary(dot)com and WordWeb.