To turn red, as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion; blush.
To glow, especially with a reddish color: The sky flushed pink at dawn.
To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood.
To be emptied or cleaned by a rapid flow of water, as a toilet.
v.
tr.
To cause to redden or glow.
To excite or elate: The team was flushed with the success of victory.
To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water: flush a toilet; flush a wound with iodine.
To remove or eliminate by or as if by flushing: "The weakness in demand and productivity will at least ... flush out some of the inflation premium that has been built into interest rates"(Fortune).
n.
A flooding flow or rush, as of water.
The act of cleaning or rinsing by or as if by flushing.
A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.
A blush or glow: "here and there a flush of red on the lip of a little cloud"(Willa Cather).
A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.
A rush of strong feeling: a flush of pride.
A state of freshness or vigor. See Synonyms at bloom1.
adj.
flush·er, flush·est
Having a healthy reddish color; flushed.
Having an abundant supply of money; affluent. See Synonyms at rich.
Marked by abundance; plentiful: flush times resulting from the oil boom.
Swelling; overflowing: rivers flush with the spring rains.
Having surfaces in the same plane; even.
Arranged with adjacent sides, surfaces, or edges close together: a sofa flush against the wall. See Synonyms at level.
Printing Aligned evenly with a margin, as along the left or right edge of a typeset page; not indented.
Direct, straightforward, or solid: knocked out by a flush blow to the jaw.
Designed to be emptied or cleaned by flushing: a flush toilet.
adv.
So as to be even, in one plane, or aligned with a margin.
Squarely or solidly: The ball hit him flush on the face.
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n.
Games
A hand in which all the cards are of the same suit but not in numerical sequence, ranked above a straight and below a full house in poker.
[French flux, flus, from Old French flux, from Latin flūxus, flux; see flux.]
"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 c.1450. The sense of "spurt, rush out suddenly, flow with force" (1548) 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" (1630) probably belongs here, too. "A very puzzling word" [Weekley].
"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 1603.
"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.).
of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane; "a door flush with the wall"; "the bottom of the window is flush with the floor"
2.
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations" [syn: affluent]
adverb
1.
squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"
2.
in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"
noun
1.
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower]
2.
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom]
3.
sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) [syn: hot flash]
4.
a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
5.
the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang]
6.
a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
7.
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) [syn: blush]
verb
1.
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush]
2.
flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
3.
glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
4.
make level or straight; "level the ground"
5.
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
6.
irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn: sluice]
7.
cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"
flushdata 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. [The Jargon File] (2005-07-18)
Flush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flushing.] [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. [root]84.]1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. The flushing noise of many waters. --Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. --Mortimer. 2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush. 3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. --Milton. 4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird. Flushing from one spray unto another. --W. Browne.
Flush\, v. t. 1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer. 2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. --Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. --Keats. 3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! --Tennyson. 4. To excite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. --South. 5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. --Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.
Flush\, n. 1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. In manner of a wave or flush. --Ray. 2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. The flush of angered shame. --Tennyson. 3. Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset. 4. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy. 5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed. 6. [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.] A hand of cards of the same suit.
Flush\, a. 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. --Shak. 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. --Arbuthnot. 3. (Arch. & Mech.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint. 4. (Card Playing) Consisting of cards of one suit. Flush bolt. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.
Flux\ (fl[u^]ks), n. [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum, to flow: cf.F. flux. See Fluent, and cf. 1st & 2d Floss, Flush, n., 6.]1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. --Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. --Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. --Felton. 2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux. 3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. 4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite. Note: White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white. -- Black flux is the ressiduum of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal. 5. (Med.) (a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux. (b) The matter thus discharged. 6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
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