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Fluxes
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of constant change |
| Synonyms: | alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity, instability, modification, motion, mutability, mutation, transition, unrest |
| Antonyms: | constancy, stability, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow of something, usually water |
| Synonyms: | course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tidal motion, tide |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downpour, flood of something |
| Synonyms: | avalanche, barrage, cataclysm, cataract, drencher, flux, inundation, niagara, overflowing, overrunning, pour, rush, spate, torrent |
| Main Entry: | diarrhea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loose bowels |
| Synonyms: | Montezuma's revenge, dysentery, flux, the runs, the trots |
| Main Entry: | dissolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | melt from solid to liquid; mix in |
| Synonyms: | defront, deliquesce, diffuse, fluidify, flux, fuse, liquefy, liquesce, render, run, soften, thaw, waste away |
| Antonyms: | coagulate, concentrate, solidify, unmix |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming flow, quantity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alluvion, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drencher, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, freshet, glut, inundation, multitude, niagara, outgushing, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, tsunami, wave |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement, oozing, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | fuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | meld, intermix |
| Synonyms: | agglutinate, amalgamate, bind, blend, cement, coalesce, combine, commingle, deliquesce, dissolve, federate, flux, integrate, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, join, liquefy, liquesce, melt, merge, mingle, run, run together, smelt, solder, thaw, unite, weld |
| Antonyms: | disconnect, divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | liquid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fluid |
| Synonyms: | aqua, aqueous material, broth, elixir, extract, flow, flux, goo, goop, juice, liquor, melted material, nectar, sap, secretion, slop, solution, swill |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely liquid is a substance that flows and takes on the form of its container; a fluid - substance with no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure - can be a liquid but it can also be a gas |
| Antonyms: | solid |
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