Functioning and Flowing

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases.
  • synonyms: flow

verb

• Move or progress freely as if in a stream.
  • usage: "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
  • synonyms: flow, flux
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, flow, feed, course
• Cause to flow.
  • usage: "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
  • synonyms: flow
• Be abundantly present.
  • usage: "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
  • synonyms: flow
• Fall or flow in a certain way.
  • usage: "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
  • synonyms: hang, fall, flow
• Cover or swamp with water.
  • synonyms: flow
• Undergo menstruation.
  • usage: "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
  • synonyms: menstruate, flow

adjective

• Designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow.
  • usage: "a streamlined convertible"
  • synonyms: streamlined, aerodynamic, sleek

• (a.) That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Flow.
• a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.