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flush

[fluhsh]

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noun

a blush; rosy glow: a flush of embarrassment on his face.

a rushing or overspreading flow, as of water.

a sudden rise of emotion or excitement: a flush of anger.

glowing freshness or vigor: the flush of youth.

hot flush. hot flash.

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a cleansing preparation that acts by flushing: an oil flush for the car's engine.

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verb (used with object)

to redden; cause to blush or glow: Winter air flushed the children's cheeks.

to flood or spray thoroughly with water, as for cleansing purposes: They flushed the wall with water and then scrubbed it down.

to wash out (a sewer, toilet, etc.) by a sudden rush of water.

10.

Metallurgy.

to remove slag from (a blast furnace).

to spray (a coke oven) to cool the gases generated and wash away the ammonia and tars distilled.

11.

to animate or excite; inflame: flushed with success.

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verb (used without object)

12.

to blush; redden.

13.

to flow with a rush; flow and spread suddenly.

14.

to operate by flushing; undergo flushing: The toilet won't flush.

Origin:
1540–50; perhaps extended senses of flush³; compare similar phonesthemic elements and meanings of blush, gush, flash

Related forms

flush·a·ble, adjective

flush·er, noun

flush·ing·ly, adverb

flush·ness, noun

Synonyms
3. access, rush, flood, impulse, thrill.

Example Sentences

Increasingly, parents have seen their children forced to contend with the fear of automatic flush toilets.

He asks us not to flush the toilet at home unless extremely necessary.

As the first flush of liberation begins to fade, differences between the new rulers may soon begin to widen.

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Increasingly, parents have seen their children forced to contend with the fear of automatic flush toilets.

He asks us not to flush the toilet at home unless extremely necessary.

As the first flush of liberation begins to fade, differences between the new rulers may soon begin to widen.

Because the fish are bottom dwellers, they might be leaping to flush out their gills.

The organism is also a good swimmer and easily evades the stomach's muscle contractions, which work to flush out other contents.

One will flush the birds out while the other captures them.

Remove pavers, dig up the circles of sod, and set in pavers so they're flush with surrounding sod.

If a building owner decides to go back to flush urinals, he'll blame the plumber if the water isn't already there.

Designers have long favored sleek, flush door handles on concept cars.

He himself chooses not to flush the toilet at his place.

Flats and offices have sprouted all round the city's edge as developers flush with cash from sales.

Force panels slotted flush into the ground of the cheetah's compound are able to carry out minute measurements.

Wind tunnels are expensive, but that doesn't mean flush your funding down the toilet on whim.

Fold edges of pastry under so they're flush with the pan or dish, pressing together any cracks.

It loosens the material so it can be easily washed off with the next flush.

Flush with petrodollars, oil-producing countries have begun a global shopping spree that could increase rapidly.

Sometimes they come in, coughing and sneezing, faces flush from fever.

Its campaign was well organised and flush with cash.

The fish, scientists speculate, could be jumping to avoid predators or to flush out their gills.

These can be added using biosolids, which helps the trees sequester carbon and completes the ecological loop from flush to field.

Screw the top backrest flush with the top ends of the back supports.

Flush toilets swirl human waste down the drain quickly and neatly.

Consider setting aside a little bit of money from the flush semester to use during the leaner one.

The port and claret were laid down in happier times, when cash was flush and planning for the future mattered.

They tried to flush it out with eardrops, but they only managed to drown it.

Consumers who flush unwanted contraceptives down the drain have long been blamed for giving fish more than their fair share of.

When the first bloom flush starts to fade, trim back dahlias and fertilize them to encourage new growth.

The pallid skin will be airbrushed by an artist into the semblance of a flush.

The dummies in the seat belts were also positioned optimally, sitting upright and flush.

Kender expects flush years to continue into the future.

Poker players' chances of being dealt a royal flush are much the same as being struck by lightning.

After dividing into smaller groups, the poachers set fires to flush out animals, then shoot them and smoke the meat.

In an age flush with dubious detox trends, one treatment is getting laid to waste this week: the colon cleanse.

After that initial flush fades, simply nip off spent blooms and the plant will slip into another round of bloom.

By letting the body flush out waste products from exercise more quickly.

If the existing studs are wider than the plate, align the plate so that one of its edges is flush with the studs.

It takes so little to take a great school and flush it down the toilet these days.

Banks are flush with cash, hotels booked up, and the pace of building furious.

Instead of a gallon, only a pint goes down the drain, per automatic flush of our urinals.

About the only water used is that used to flush the toilets.

Retirees flush with retirement cash hop a plane to visit the children and grandchildren spread out around the world.

Bloch might flush out co-conspirators or other useful evidence.

Flush that stuff right out of my system and them replenish my body with great amounts of fresh fruits and veggies.

Flush with their success, union leaders are now hoping to press the government for further concessions.

It offers cold running water, flush toilets, and covered picnic tables.

So you can't have something that is going to be completely flush.

It might not help if you sprinkle while you tinkle, but it does mean that the flush can be a lot more effective.

Water is plentiful again: people can now bathe, shower, flush and even drink city water.

Corporate balance sheets are once again healthy and flush with cash.

The rubbing causes the stunned, sometimes headless bee to flush its toxins.

Many species present with an initial invasive flush which fades over a few years leaving the new species in an equilibrium.

Pressing them down is difficult because the buttons are flush to the base.

Taxing the flush to help out the hard-pressed was a theme.

But the idea of a personal flush toilet offends her.

But few measures, no matter how financially flush their campaigns, can survive an onslaught of negative advertising.

But prior to that period, eat lots of fiber and drink plenty of fluids to flush out your system.

All the candles had burned flush to the ground-another propitious sign.

But that also means that would-be geothermal companies are competing with the flush oil and gas industry for drilling rigs.

Flush with the success of digital phones, they expected the next big thing to emerge the same way.

Save that stuff for the bathroom so you can flush it.

Most westerners are used to the idea of flush toilets and have a hard time conceiving of anything else.

Alternating grey water irrigation with fresh water irrigation can help flush any grey water impurities deep into the.

Flush toxic chemicals and medications down the drain.

Slowly, rocky colonies grew and spread along the seafloor flush with diverse marine life.

Japan was flush when they planned and implemented their earthquake prevention strategy.

Double-digit unemployment is history in the region, and county governments find themselves flush with new revenue.

There were little creeks that flowed into open meadows that had a fresh flush of green or were charred black by fire.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.

having direct contact; being right next to; immediately adjacent; contiguous: The table was flush against the wall.

well-supplied, as with money; affluent; prosperous: He was feeling flush on payday.

abundant or plentiful, as money.

having a ruddy or reddish color; blushing.

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full of vigor; lusty.

full to overflowing.

Printing. even or level with the right margin (flush right) or the left margin (flush left) of the type page; without an indention.

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adverb

on the same level; in a straight line; without a change of plane: to be made flush with the top of the table.

10.

in direct contact; squarely: It was set flush against the edge.

verb (used with object)

11.

to make flush or even.

12.

to improve the nutrition of (a ewe) to bring on optimum physiological conditions for breeding.

verb (used without object)

13.

to send out shoots, as plants in spring.

noun

14.

a fresh growth, as of shoots and leaves.

Origin:
1540–50; perhaps all sense developments of flush¹

Related forms

flush·ness, noun

verb (used with object)

to rouse and cause to start up or fly off: to flush a woodcock.

verb (used without object)

to fly out or start up suddenly.

noun

a flushed bird or flock of birds.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English flusshen, first attested as past participle fluste, fliste; of uncertain origin

adjective

consisting entirely of cards of one suit: a flush hand.

noun

a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.

Pinochle. a meld of ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit. Compare marriage (def. 8), royal marriage.

Origin:
1520–30; compare French (obsolete) flus, variant of flux flow, flush (compare phrase run of cards) < Latin fluxus flux

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Collins

World English Dictionary

flush¹ (flʌʃ)

—vb
1.	to blush or cause to blush
2.	to flow or flood or cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
3.	to glow or shine or cause to glow or shine with a rosy colour
4.	to send a volume of water quickly through (a pipe, channel, etc) or into (a toilet) for the purpose of cleansing, emptying, etc
5.	to cause (soluble substances in the soil) to be washed towards the surface, as by the action of underground springs, or (of such substances) to be washed towards the soil surface
6.	(tr; usually passive) to excite or elate

—n
7.	a rosy colour, esp in the cheeks; blush
8.	a sudden flow or gush, as of water
9.	a feeling of excitement or elation: the flush of success
10.	early bloom; freshness: the flush of youth
11.	redness of the skin, esp of the face, as from the effects of a fever, alcohol, etc
12.	ecology an area of boggy land fed by ground water

—*adj*
13.	having a ruddy or heightened colour

[C16 (in the sense: to gush forth): perhaps from flush³]

'flusher¹

—n

flush² (flʌʃ)

—*adj*
1.	level or even with another surface
2.	directly adjacent; continuous
3.	informal having plenty of money
4.	informal abundant or plentiful, as money
5.	full of vigour
6.	full to the brim or to the point of overflowing
7.	printing having an even margin, right or left, with no indentations
8.	(of a blow) accurately delivered
9.	(of a vessel) having no superstructure built above the flat level of the deck

—*adv*
10.	so as to be level or even
11.	directly or squarely

—vb
12.	to cause (surfaces) to be on the same level or in the same plane
13.	to enrich the diet of (an ewe) during the breeding season

—n
14.	a period of fresh growth of leaves, shoots, etc

[C18: probably from flush¹ (in the sense: spring out)]

'flushness²

—n

flush³ (flʌʃ)

—vb
	(tr) to rouse (game, wild creatures, etc) and put to flight

[C13 flusshen, perhaps of imitative origin]

flush⁴ (flʌʃ)

—n
	(in poker and similar games) a hand containing only one suit

[C16: from Old French flus, from Latin fluxusflux]

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Word Origin & History

flush

"fly up suddenly," c.1300, perhaps imitative of the sound of beating wings, or related to flash via its variant flushe. Probably not connected to O.Fr. flux, source of flush (n.). Transitive meaning "to cause to fly, start" is first attested mid-15c. The sense of "spurt, rush

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out suddenly, flow with force" (1540s) is probably the same word, with the connecting notion being "sudden movement," but its senses seem more to fit the older ones of flash (now all transferred to this word except in flash flood). The noun sense of "sudden redness in the face" (1620s) probably belongs here, too. "A very puzzling word" [Weekley]. Related: Flushed flushing.

flush

"even, level," c.1550, perhaps from flush (v.) through the notion of a river running full, hence level with its banks. Applied to money since at least c.1600.

flush

"hand of cards all of one suit," 1529, perhaps from M.Fr. flus (15c.), from O.Fr. flux "a flowing," with the sense of "a run" (of cards), from L. fluxus "flux," from fluere "to flow" (see fluent). The form in Eng. probably was influenced by flush (v.).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

flush ¹ (flŭsh)
v. flushed, flush·ing, flush·es

To turn red, as from fever, heat, or strong emotion; blush.
To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water.

An act of cleansing or rinsing with a flow of water.
A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.

adj.
Having surfaces in the same plane; even.

Slang Dictionary

flush definition

mod.
wealthy; with plenty of money. : Today I am flush. By tomorrow, I'll be broke.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

flush definition

data
To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
"Flush" was standard ITS terminology for aborting an output operation. One spoke of the text that would have been printed, but was not, as having been flushed. It is speculated that this term arose from a vivid image of flushing unwanted characters by hosing down the internal output buffer, washing the characters away before they could be printed.
Compare drain.
2. To force temporarily buffered data to be written to more permanent memory. E.g. flushing buffered disk writes to disk, as with C's standard I/O library "fflush(3)" call. This sense was in use among BLISS programmers at DEC and on Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965. Another example of this usage is flushing a cache on a context switch where modified data stored in the cace which belongs to one processes must be written out to main memory so that the cache can be used by another process.
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