upflow
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (verb) IPA(key): /ʌpˈfləʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (noun) IPA(key): /ˈʌpfləʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ, -ʌpfləʊ
Verb edit
upflow (third-person singular simple present upflows, present participle upflowing, simple past and past participle upflowed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To flow or stream upwards.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- No eye beheld the spring
Of that up-flowing Flame
Noun edit
upflow (plural upflows)
- A flowing upward.