| 单词 | to set at flow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set (the eyes) at flow a. The action or fact of flowing; movement in a current or stream; an instance or mode of this. Originally said of liquids, but extended in modern use to all fluids, as air, electricity, etc. †Phrase: to set (the eyes) at flow: to (cause to) weep. Also ‘The course or direction of running waters’ (Admiral Smyth). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] flowingc950 flowa1450 defluxionc1550 fluxion1555 fluxc1600 fluor1642 the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > flow of air flow1860 airflow1890 airstream1913 a1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 43 Thei xul not drede the flodys fflowe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 160 I haue..set mine eyes at flow . View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 152 This top-proud fellow, Whom from the flow of gall I name not. View more context for this quotation 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xxxvii. 268 In the flow Of sudden tears. 1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 290 A gentle sound..like the flow of a brook. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxv. 362 The gentle flow of a current of air. 1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 208 A flow of positive electricity in the one direction along the wire. < as lemmas |
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