flowing

verb
/ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/US/ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/UK

Etymology

From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.

  1. inherited from flowyng

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of flow

  2. The action of the verb to flow

    • the flowing of the river
  3. Tending to flow.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

      • a flowing dress
      • flowing prose
      • [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at flowing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at flowing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at flowing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA