noun
Meaning 1
The process of flowing out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
outflow
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
CMU ARPABET: AW1 T F L OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A fluid that flows out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any outward movement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A stream of gaseous material emanating from an active galactic nucleus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The part of a system that allows material to flow out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Something that flows out of a sewage treatment plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: sewage
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To flow outward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
the discharge of a fluid from some container
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe
- he had to clean up the leak
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: escape, leak, leakage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discharge, outpouring, run
noun
Meaning 9
a natural flow of ground water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spring, fountain, outpouring, natural spring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geological formation, formation
Narrower terms: Fountain of Youth, geyser, hot spring, thermal spring
noun
Meaning 10
the process of flowing out
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: effluence, efflux
Antonyms: inflow
Broader terms: flow
History
Etymology
From Middle English outflowen, from late Old English ūtflōwan (attested in the past tense as ūt flēow), equivalent to out- + flow. The noun is derived from the verb.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: արտահոսք (artahoskʻ) — Process of flowing out
- Bulgarian: изтичане (iztičane) — Process of flowing out
- Bulgarian: изливане (izlivane) — Process of flowing out
- Chinese Mandarin: 流出 (liúchū) — Process of flowing out
- Chinese Mandarin: 外流 (wàiliú) — Process of flowing out
- Czech: odtékání — Process of flowing out
- Czech: odliv — Process of flowing out
- Czech: odtok — Process of flowing out
- Czech: výtok — Process of flowing out
- Finnish: ulosvirtaus — Process of flowing out
- French: sortie — Process of flowing out
- German: Abfluss — Process of flowing out
- Greek: εκροή (ekroḯ) — Process of flowing out
- Japanese: 流出 (ryūshutsu) — Process of flowing out
- Macedonian: изле́вање (izlévanje) — Process of flowing out
- Macedonian: истеку́вање (istekúvanje) — Process of flowing out
- Macedonian: и́злив (ízliv) — Process of flowing out
- Norwegian Bokmål: utstrømming — Process of flowing out
- Norwegian Bokmål: utstrømning — Process of flowing out
- Portuguese: saída — Process of flowing out
- Russian: отто́к (ottók) — Process of flowing out
- Bulgarian: изтичам (iztičam) — To flow outward
- Bulgarian: изливам се (izlivam se) — To flow outward
- Czech: odtékat — To flow outward
- Czech: vytékat — To flow outward
- Greek: εκρέω (ekréo) — To flow outward
- Macedonian: и́стече (ísteče) — To flow outward
- Macedonian: се и́злее (se ízlee) — To flow outward
- Portuguese: sair — To flow outward
- Quechua: usuy — To flow outward
Real reading context