Word

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

current flow stream

sample sentences

"two streams of development run through American history"
"stream of consciousness"
"the flow of thought"
"the current of history"

semantic pointers

hypernym

course, line

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

flow stream

sample sentences

"a stream of people emptied from the terminal"
"the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

stream stream

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

flow

semantic pointers

hypernym

motion

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
<noun.process>

catamenia flow menses menstruation menstruum period

sample sentences

"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
"a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates
"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"--Aristotle

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

menstruate

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

catamenial

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

flow

semantic pointers

hypernym

discharge, emission, expelling

hyponym

menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea oligomenorrhea