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flush

1  [fluhsh]
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–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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flush 1   (flŭsh)   
v.   flushed, flush·ing, flush·es

v.   intr.

  1. To turn red, as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion; blush.

  2. To glow, especially with a reddish color: The sky flushed pink at dawn.

  3. To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood.

  4. To be emptied or cleaned by a rapid flow of water, as a toilet.

v.   tr.

  1. To cause to redden or glow.

  2. 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).

n.  

    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.

  2. 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.

  4. A rush of strong feeling: a flush of pride.

  5. A state of freshness or vigor. See Synonyms at bloom1.

adj.   flush·er, flush·est

  1. Having a healthy reddish color; flushed.

  2. Having an abundant supply of money; affluent. See Synonyms at rich.

  3. Marked by abundance; plentiful: flush times resulting from the oil boom.

  4. 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.

  6. Direct, straightforward, or solid: knocked out by a flush blow to the jaw.

  7. Designed to be emptied or cleaned by flushing: a flush toilet.

adv.  

  1. So as to be even, in one plane, or aligned with a margin.

  2. Squarely or solidly: The ball hit him flush on the face.


[Probably from flush3, to dart out.]
flush'er n., flush'ness n.
flush 2   (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.]
flush 3   (flŭsh)   
v.   flushed, flush·ing, flush·es

v.   tr.

  1. To frighten (a game bird, for example) from cover.

  2. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
flush

  1. 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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Word Origin & History

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.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

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>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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

  1. To turn red, as from fever, heat, or strong emotion; blush.

  2. To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water.

n.

  1. An act of cleansing or rinsing with a flow of water.

  2. A reddening of the skin, as with fever, emotion, or exertion.

  3. A brief sensation of heat over all or part of the body.

adj.
Having surfaces in the same plane; even.

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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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