flow

/floʊ/

意味: 流れ、流動

例文: Philo admired the flow of moonlit rivers.
　　  フィロは月明かりに照らされた川の流れに見とれた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: flow chart(フローチャート), flow rate(流量), cash flow(キャッシュフロー)

定義: 物や液体が自然に動くこと、またはその動きのこと。流れや流動性を指す。

flowは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
Noun: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
Noun: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Noun: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Noun: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
Noun: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
Noun: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; –Hippocrates; –Aristotle
Verb: move or progress freely as if in a stream
Verb: move along, of liquids
Verb: cause to flow
Verb: be abundantly present
Verb: fall or flow in a certain way
Verb: cover or swamp with water
Verb: undergo menstruation

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The river’s flow is strong after the heavy rain.(大雨の後、川の流れは強い。)
Ideas flow freely during brainstorming sessions.(ブレインストーミング中はアイデアが自由に流れる。)
She watched the flow of traffic from her window.(彼女は窓から交通の流れを見ていた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: a stream of people emptied from the terminal
Noun: the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors
Noun: two streams of development run through American history
Noun: stream of consciousness
Noun: the flow of thought
Noun: the current of history
Noun: the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
Noun: a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
Noun: 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
Verb: The crowd flowed out of the stadium
Verb: Water flowed into the cave
Verb: the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Verb: The artist flowed the washes on the paper
Verb: The champagne flowed at the wedding
Verb: This dress hangs well
Verb: Her long black hair flowed down her back
Verb: She started menstruating at the age of 11

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): catamenia, course, current, fall, feed, flow, flow rate, flowing, flux, hang, menses, menstruate, menstruation, menstruum, period, rate of flow, run, stream

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change of location, course, discharge, exist, flood, motion, move, natural process, rate, shed blood

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absorption, acceleration, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, antiredeposition, approach, arouse, ascension, assume, attrition rate, beat, birthrate, bits per second, bob, bolt, brush, buck, bustle, cant, capture, careen, centrifugation, chemical process, chop, chromatography, churn, circulation, climb, close, coexist, come, concretion, condensation, convection, crash, crawl, creep, crime rate, curdling, cut, cut to, dance, data rate, deathrate, decay, deceleration, demagnetization, descent, desorption, diffusion, dissolution, distillation, distribute, diverge, dodge, dose rate, drift, drop back, duck, dwell, effervescence, ejaculation, electrophoresis, elimination, endanger, entrance, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, establishment, exit, extinction, extraction, fall, falter, feedback, fidget, filtration, flex, flinch, fling, flip, flocculation, flow, flurry, flux, fly, formation, fossilization, frequency, geological process, get down, gigahertz, grab, gravitate, gravitation, growth rate, hardening, haste, heave, hertz, hit the dirt, hop, hop on, inactivation, indwell, inflation rate, inundate, ion exchange, ionization, jerk, jolt, jump, kick around, kilohertz, kilometers per hour, leach, levitation, linger, list, locomotion, lunge, lurch, magnetization, make way, maneuver, materialization, megahertz, menstruate, menstruation, metabolic rate, migration, miles per hour, mill, mope, move back and forth, move involuntarily, move over, nod, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, oxygenation, pace, pair production, perpetual motion, phase change, precession, precession of the equinoxes, preexist, prevail, progress, pulsate, pulse, pursuit, putter, quicken, radiation, rate of return, reach, reciprocate, release, respiratory rate, return, revolutions per minute, rise, roll, run, saltation, sampling rate, scattering, seesaw, separate, sericulture, shake, shaking, shift, sidle, sink, slide, slip, slippage, snap, soak, softening, solar constant, sorption, source, spacing, speed, spread, stampede, startle, steal, stiffening, stimulation, stir, streak, stream, stretch, strike out, stumble, succession, survival, swamp, sweep, swing, swoop, synergy, teeter, temperature change, tempo, terahertz, throw, thunder, transduction, translation, transpiration, travel, turn, vibrate, vitrification, wallow, wamble, whirl, wobble, words per minute, writhe

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): airflow, backflow, cardiac output, circulate, current, discharge, drain, drip, dripping, ebb, eddy, emission, filling, flood, flowage, flush, flux, fountain, freshet, gutter, inflow, jet, lave, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea, outflow, overflow, pour, ripple, run down, rush, seep, seepage, slipstream, spill, stream, streamline flow, tide, transpire, trickle, turbulent flow, waste

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: catamenial, course, flow, flowage, flowing, fluxion, hang, menstruate, menstruation, run, stream

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive