1 to flow

2 to disseminate

3 to circulate or spread

4 to move or drift

5 to degenerate

6 to banish or send into exile

7 stream of water or sth resembling one

8 class, rate or grade

1 to shed tears

1 (of a contagious disease etc) to spread

2 to propagate

3 (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular

4 fashionable

1 flow rate

2 rate

3 throughput

4 site traffic (Internet)

1 tide

2 current

3 trend

1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)

2 one should constantly strive to make progress

1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably

1 lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius)

2 to use this in place of that

3 what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts

1 widely praised (idiom); with an extensive public reputation

1 lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom)

2 fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted