流 — meaning in English

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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