ながれ
flow, stream
Water doing the only thing water does. The same Niagara なが as 流れる, stopped just short of being a verb, and up at the top of the river it does it fast: ながれ.
流す ながす is you letting something go with it. 流れ is the movement itself, as a noun.
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