outflow

«outflow» in Mova's school dictionary: Water, air or another substance flowing out of a place — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an outflow, outflows; also uncountable); verb (outflow — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) Water, air or another substance flowing out of a place. tree →

2) (money) Money going out of a bank, business or country. tree →

3) The place or pipe where something flows out. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in geography (the outflow of a lake into a river), science (outflow of air from a storm), money and maths (cash inflow and outflow, money coming in and going out) and in news about people leaving a country. In maths problems, outflow is the amount going out, taken away from the total.

examples

• The river is the outflow from the lake. tree →
• The outflow pipe takes the dirty water away. tree →
• A cold outflow of air came from the thunderstorm. tree →
• The bakery's money outflow was bigger than its money coming in. tree →
• The country saw a large outflow of workers. tree →
• If 50 litres flow in and the outflow is 20 litres, 30 litres remain. tree →

note

Countable or uncountable. Opposite: "inflow". In maths: total change = inflow − outflow. One word, no hyphen.

In the corpora

• Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «outflow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.