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-n. 5.
current, drift, course, tide, ebb; stream, streamlet, brook, brooklet, creek, Dial,
crick, U.S. Dial,
kill, river, rivulet; channel, sluice, canal, waterway, watercourse; torrent, cascade, cataract, falls, rapids.
6. issuance, emanation, afflux, flux, outflow, outpour, outpouring, efflux, effluence; trickle, dribble, seepage, oozing; spout, spurt, jet, spring, geyser.
7. overflowing, flood, deluge; affluence, abundance, plenty; copiousness, plethora, excess.
flower, n.1. blossom, bloom, nosegay, bouquet; bud, floweret, floret; perennial, annual.
2. prime, acme, zenith, heyday, height, maturity, efflorescence, Latin, floruit; youth, early vigor, springtime of life, salad days.
3. ornament, adornment, embellishment, ornamentation, decoration; floral design, Print,
fleuron, rosette, acanthus.
4. best, pick, choicest, best part, finest; elite, cream, Fr. cr$me de la cr$me;
the least expendable.
-v. 5. blossom, produce flowers, bud, burgeon, bloom, effloresce; come out, unfold, open, dehisce; develop, mature, come to full bloom.
flowery, adj.1. flower-covered, blooming, bloomy, blossomy, blossoming; flowering, floral, florescent, efflorescent, floriferous; floriated.
2. (usu. of language) ornate, florid, high-flown, euphuistic, showy, elaborate; figurative, highly-wrought, overwrought; rhetorical, redundant, pleonastic; bombastic, grandiloquent, inflated,
flowing, adj.1. streaming, running, drifting, gliding, sliding, moving along; circulating, moving around, passing through; rolling, purling, rippling, gurgling, bubbling, trickling; gushing, surging, effusive; rushing, cascading, falling.
2. fluent, smooth, free-flowing, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted; graceful, facile, effortless, easy.
3. abounding, teeming, rich, lush; overflowing, brimming over, swollen; flooded, overrun.
fluctuate, v. 1. vacillate, waver, yo-yo, seesaw, teeter-totter; equivocate, shilly-shally, hem and haw, blow hot and cold, tergiversate, straddle the fence.
2. wave, undulate, oscillate, pendulate,
fluctuation, n.1. vacillation, wavering, instability, unsteadiness; change, variation, alternation; hesitation, ambivalence, irresolution, indecision, undecisiveness, uncertainty, infirmity of purpose; fickleness, capriciousness, changeableness.
2. undulation, oscillation, rising and falling; rise and fall, ebb and flow, flux and reflux,
flue, n.duct, passage, air passage, air hole, airway, vent, venthole; chimney, smokestack, smokeshaft, stack, funnel, stovepipe, Naut. Sl.
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fluency, n.1. facility, command, control; ease, felicity; grace, gracefulness, smoothness.
2. eloquence, articulateness, silver tongue, well-spokenness; volubility, verbosity, prolixity, long-windedness, Inf.gift of gab; profuseness, wordiness, verbiage, Rare,
multiloquence; glibness, slickness.
3. flow, flowing, flux, fluxion, afflux, affluence,
fluent, adj.1. eloquent, articulate, well-spoken, silver-tongued, Archaic, facund, Obs.facundious; glib, slick, smooth, smooth-tongued, smooth-talking, smooth-spoken, fast-talking; voluble, verbose, prolix, long-winded, Rare,
multiloquent.
2. smooth, easy, graceful, fluid, facile; mellifluous, tripping, euphonious, smooth-sounding, pleasing to
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The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. .. More >>
