Earthwork (n.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. |
Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc. |
Earthwork (n.) An embankment or construction made of earth. |
Flow () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. |
Flow (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid |
Flow (v. i.) To become liquid |
Flow (v. i.) To proceed |
Flow (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties |
Flow (v. i.) To have or be in abundance |
Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving |
Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide |
Flow (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. |
Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid |
Flow (v. t.) To cover with varnish. |
Flow (n.) A stream of water or other fluid |
Flow (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant |
Flow (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river |
Flow (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. |
Flow (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land |
Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling |
Slide (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet. |
Slide (v. t.) To pass inadvertently. |
Slide (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly |
Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing |
Slide (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. |
Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. |
Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide |
Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly |
Slide (n.) The act of sliding |
Slide (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress. |
Slide (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding. |
Slide (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down. |
Slide (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement. |
Slide (n.) That which operates by sliding. |
Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it. |
Slide (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides. |
Slide (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like. |
Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like |
Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side |
Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. |
Slide (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. |
Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics. |
Slide (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. |
Slide (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide. |
Slide (n.) A slide valve. |
work flow workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
slide glide coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
chemical warfare chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
operations trading operations | financial transactions at a brokerage, having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records |
base base of operations | installation from which a military force initiates operations, the attack wiped out our forward bases |
chute slide slideway sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend |
earthwork | an earthen rampart |
hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
pump action slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
slide lantern slide | a transparency mounted in a frame, viewed with a slide projector |
slide microscope slide | a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study |
slide playground slide sliding board | plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide |
slide fastener zip zipper zip fastener | a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab |
slide projector | projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen |
slide rule slipstick | analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations, have been replaced by pocket calculators |
slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
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 |
swoop slide | (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale, the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides |
tidal flow tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
slide | (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. |
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 |
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 |
field field of operations theater theater of operations theatre theatre of operations | a region in which active military operations are in progress, the army was in the field awaiting action, he served in the Vietnam theater for three years |
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 |
megaflop MFLOP million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
teraflop trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
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 |
skid slip slue slew slide | move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner, the wheels skidded against the sidewalk |
slither slide | to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly, They slid through the wicket in the big gate |
slump slide down sink | fall or sink heavily, He slumped onto the couch, My spirits sank |
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 |
elapse lapse pass slip by glide by slip away go by slide by go along | pass by, three years elapsed |