ながれ
Meanings
Noun
1. flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; current
The flow of the water becomes slow.
2. flow (of people, things); passage (of time); tide; passing; (changing) trends; tendency
For now, I'll just go with the flow.
3. course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; process
Listening to the flow of the conversation, I couldn't think of it any other way.
4. group of people who remain together after the end of an event
5. descent; ancestry; school
6. forfeiture; foreclosure
7. cancellation
usu. as お流れ
8. drifting; wandering; roaming
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (44 in total)
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
to drift (to); to be washed ashore
cancellation; abandonment
to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out
to flow down; to run down
stranger; tramp; wanderer
to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) of
sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current
flow of time; flux of time; lapse of time; current of the times; trend of the times
trend of the times; way things are going
assembly-line system
stray arrow
stream of consciousness
to drift together; to drift to the shore
being carried away by a current; drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river; cancellation; standing up
to wander about
forfeiting a pawned item; unredeemed pledge; foreclosure
flow direction
floating object (e.g. in water); driftage; forfeited pawned article
flowing into the black market
flowchart; flow diagram
slanting, one-sided (shed) roof
the Heike line
there are exceptions to every rule; (lit.) rocks will flow and leaves will sink
paper grain
dye bleeding (in fabric dyeing)
swiftly running river; rapid stream
job stream; run stream; input stream
message flow confidentiality
job stream; run stream; input stream
job stream; run stream; input stream
life is unpredictable; (lit.) the flow of water and where people are headed (are equally unpredictable)
to live freely in the wilderness; (lit.) to sleep on a pillow of stone and rinse one's mouth with river water
Examples (46 in total)
Just go with the flow.
The flow of the mist is disturbed.
The stream flows into the pond.