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流 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • current adjective Happening or existing right now.
  • feed verb To give food to a person or animal.
  • flow noun The continuous, smooth movement of a liquid, gas, or stream of things.
  • flux noun A state of continuous change.
  • overflow noun Liquid or material that spills over because there is too much of it.
  • racer noun Someone or something that takes part in a race.
  • stream noun A small natural flow of water, smaller than a river.
  • streaming noun Watching or listening to audio or video sent continuously over the internet, rather than downloaded first.

Senses

流 is used for these senses in English:

  • current The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.
  • feed (social media, often after a possessive determiner ) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
  • flood tide The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore
  • flow (math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
  • flow (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
  • flux (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
  • overflow (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
  • pour out (transitive) To distribute or spread (something), as if it were a liquid.

current — full definition

  1. adjective Happening or existing right now.
  2. noun A continuous flow of water, air, or electricity in a particular direction.

feed — full definition

  1. verb To give food to a person or animal.
  2. verb To supply material into a machine or process.
  3. noun Food given to farm animals or pets.
  4. noun A continuously updated stream of online content, such as posts from social media.
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