flux

flux
   1. menstruation
   Literally, the condition of flowing or, as with solder, causing to flow:
    Even her body's flux, which she could feel in a gentle, almost controlled flow, wasn't the inconvenient and disagreeable monthly discharge... (P. D. James, 1980)
   2. diarrhoea
   Again from the flowing:
    Our bodies weakened with fluxes, our strength wasted with watchings, want of drink, wet and cold being our constant companions. (Gentles, 1992, quoting a soldier in the New Model Army before the Battle of Dunbar)

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  • flux — flux …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • flux — [ fly ] n. m. • 1306; lat. fluxus « écoulement », de fluere « couler » 1 ♦ Didact. Action de couler. ⇒ écoulement. Flux artériel, veineux. Flux menstruel : les règles. Flux laminaire (d un gaz, de l air). 2 ♦ (1532) Littér. Grande quantité… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • flux — FLUX, fluxuri, s.n. 1. Fază de ridicare periodică a nivelului apei oceanelor sau a mărilor deschise, în cadrul fenomenului de maree, sub influenţa mişcării de rotaţie a Pământului şi a atracţiei Lunii şi a Soarelui. ♦ fig. Revărsare puternică,… …   Dicționar Român

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  • Flux — (fl[u^]ks), n. [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum, to flow: cf.F. flux. See {Fluent}, and cf. 1st & 2d {Floss}, {Flush}, n., 6.] 1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • FLUX — – goldener Verkehrsknoten     Trägerschaft PostAuto Schweiz AG Patronat Verband öffentlicher Verkehr Erste Verleihung 8. November 2007 Nächste Verleihung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • flux — Flux, ou Fluxion, Profluuium profluuij, Fluxio. Flux de ventre, Alui profluuium, Aluus non consistens, Licentia, Diarrhoea, Pantices, Tormina, Fluxiones alui, Alui resolutio, Cita aluus. Flux de sang, Sanguinis reiectio, Fluxiones sanguinis. Les… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • flux — [ flʌks ] noun 1. ) uncount a condition of continuous change: in a state of flux: The climate appears to be in a state of flux. in flux: The committee s ideas were still in flux. 2. ) count or uncount SCIENCE the rate at which matter or energy… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Flux — Flux, a. [L. fluxus, p. p. of fluere. See {Flux}, n.] Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. [1913 Webster] The flux nature of all things here. Barrow. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • flux — |us| s. m. 1. Fluxo. 2. a flux: abundantemente; a rodos; unanimemente. 3. estar a flux: ter só cartas de trunfo. 4. levar tudo a flux: não deixar escapar nada.   ‣ Etimologia: alteração de fluxo …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

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