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flush

1 [fluhsh]

–noun

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

2.	a rushing or overspreading flow, as of water.

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

4.	glowing freshness or vigor: the flush of youth.

5.	hot flush. hot flash.

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

–verb (used with object)

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

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

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

10.

Metallurgy.

a.	to remove slag from (a blast furnace).

b.	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.

–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; perh. extended senses of flush ³ ; cf. similar phonesthemic elements and meanings of blush, gush, flash

Related forms:

flush⋅a⋅ble, adjective

flusher, noun

flush⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

flushness, noun

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

flush

2 [fluhsh]

–adjective

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

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

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

4.	abundant or plentiful, as money.

5.	having a ruddy or reddish color; blushing.

6.	full of vigor; lusty.

7.	full to overflowing.

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

–adverb

9.	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; perh. all sense developments of flush ¹

Related forms:

flushness, noun

flush

3 [fluhsh]

Hunting.

–verb (used with object)

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

–verb (used without object)

2.	to fly out or start up suddenly.

–noun

3.	a flushed bird or flock of birds.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME flusshen, first attested as ptp. fluste, fliste; of uncert. orig.

flush

4 [fluhsh]

Cards.

–adjective

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

–noun

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

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

Origin:
1520–30; cf. F (obs.) flus, var. of flux flow, flush (cf. phrase run of cards) < L fluxus flux

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flush¹ (flŭsh)

v. flushed, flush·ing, flush·es

v. intr.

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.
1. To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water: flush a toilet; flush a wound with iodine.
2. 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).

1. A flooding flow or rush, as of water.
2. The act of cleaning or rinsing by or as if by flushing.
3. A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
4. 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).
1. A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.
2. 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.
1. Having surfaces in the same plane; even.
2. Arranged with adjacent sides, surfaces, or edges close together: a sofa flush against the wall. See Synonyms at level.
3. 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.

[Probably from flush³, to dart out.]
flush'er n., flush'ness n.

flush² (flŭsh)

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.]

flush³ (flŭsh)

v. flushed, flush·ing, flush·es

v. tr.

To frighten (a game bird, for example) from cover.
To drive or force into the open: The police fired tear gas to flush out the terrorists.

v. intr.
To dart out or fly from cover.
n. A bird or flock of birds that has been frightened from cover.

[Middle English flusshen.]

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Flush

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

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

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

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.

Flush

Flush\, adv. So as to be level or even.

Flush

Flush\, v. t. To cause by flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.

Flush

Flush\, v. i. (Mining) (a) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood. (b) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

Language Translation for : flush

Spanish: rubor,

German: das Erröten,

Japanese: 紅潮

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flush

v.
1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation. "All that nonsense has been flushed."
2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call. This is _not_ an abort or deletion as in sense 1, but a demand for early completion!
3. To leave at the end of a day's work (as opposed to leaving for a meal). "I'm going to flush now." "Time to flush."
4. To exclude someone from an activity, or to ignore a person.

`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. The Unix/C usage, on the other hand, was propagated by the `fflush(3)' call in C's standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use among BLISS programmers at DEC and on Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers found the ITS usage confusing, and vice versa.

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flush (v.)

"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].

flush (adj.)

"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.

flush (n.)

"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.).

Main Entry: ¹flush
Pronunciation: 'fl&sh
Function: noun
: a transitory sensation of extreme heat (as in response to some drugs or in somephysiological states) flushes>

Main Entry: ²flush
Function: intransitive verb
: to blush or become suddenly suffused with color due to vasodilation flush transitive senses
: to cleanse or wash out with or as if with a rush of liquid flushed with saline —Don Gold>

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.

flush 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.
[The Jargon File]
(2005-07-18)

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