dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
work flow workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic drug trafficking narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
traffic circle circle rotary roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
menorrhea menstrual blood menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus, occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
flow chart flowchart flow diagram flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
traffic light traffic signal stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
traffic | the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time, heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines, traffic on the internet is lightest during the night |
tidal flow tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
flow flowing | the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
airflow air flow flow of air | the flow of air, she adjusted the fan so that the airflow was directed right at her |
traffic jam snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time |
air traffic | traffic created by the movement of aircraft |
commuter traffic | traffic created by people going to or returning from work |
pedestrian traffic foot traffic | people coming and going on foot |
vehicular traffic vehicle traffic | the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality |
automobile traffic car traffic | cars coming and going |
bicycle traffic | bicycles coming and going |
bus traffic | buses coming and going |
truck traffic | trucks coming and going |
stream flow current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
traffic pattern approach pattern pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
turbulent flow | flow in which the velocity at any point varies erratically |
streamline flow | flow of a gas or liquid in which the velocity at any point is relatively steady |
laminar flow | nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae) |
cash flow | the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including nonash expenses) |
flow | any uninterrupted stream or discharge |
menstruation menses menstruum catamenia period flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, 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 |
stream flow | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously, a stream of people emptied from the terminal, the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors |
flow flow rate rate of flow | the amount of fluid that flows in a given time |
menstruate flow | undergo menstruation, She started menstruating at the age of |
flow | cover or swamp with water |
flow away flow off | flow off or away gradually, The water flowed off from the pipe |
flow out effuse | flow or spill forth |
hang fall flow | fall or flow in a certain way, This dress hangs well, Her long black hair flowed down her back |
flow flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream, The crowd flowed out of the stadium |
run flow feed course | move along, of liquids, Water flowed into the cave, the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi |
flow | cause to flow, The artist flowed the washes on the paper |
traffic | trade or deal a commodity, They trafficked with us for gold |
traffic | deal illegally, traffic drugs |