Definitions of flush [ʌʃ]

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Definition of 'flush'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) flush
a blush; rosy glow.

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

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

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

5.  flush
a reddening of the skin, as from a fever, or a sensation of heat accompanying this.

6.  flush
an act of cleansing by flushing, or a preparation used for this.

7. (v.t.) flush
to redden; cause to blush or glow.

8.  flush
to flood or spray thoroughly with water, as for cleansing purposes.

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

10.  flush
to animate or excite; inflame:
flushed with success.

11. (v.i.) flush
to blush; redden.

12.  flush
to flow with a rush; flow and spread suddenly.

13.  flush
to be washed with a sudden rush of water.

14. (adj.) flush
even or level with a surface; forming the same plane:
The window frame is flush with the wall.

15.  flush
having direct contact; immediately adjacent:
The table was flush against the wall.

16.  flush
well-supplied, esp. with money; affluent; prosperous.

17.  flush
abundant or plentiful, as money.

18.  flush
having a ruddy or reddish color.

19.  flush
full of vigor; lusty.

20.  flush
full to overflowing.

21.  flush
even or level with the right margin

22. (adv.) flush
on the same level or plane; evenly:
The door shuts flush with the wall.

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

24. (v.t.) flush
to make flush or even.

25. (n.) flush
a fresh growth, as of shoots and leaves.

26. (v.t.) flush
to rouse and cause to start up or fly off:
to flush a woodcock.

27. (v.i.) flush
to fly out or start up suddenly.

28. (n.) flush
a flushed bird or flock of birds.

29. (adj.) flush
consisting entirely of cards of one suit:
a flush hand.

30. (n.) flush
a hand or set of cards all of one suit.

Etymology: (1520–30; cf. F < L fluxusflux)

Definition of 'flush'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

2. (noun) bloom, blush, flush, rosiness
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

3. (noun) hot flash, flush
sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

4. (noun) flush
a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

5. (noun) bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick
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"

6. (noun) flush, gush, outpouring
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. (adj) blush, flush
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

8. (adj) flush(p)
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"

9. (verb) affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy
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"

10. (verb) blush, crimson, flush, redden
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
"The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

11. (verb) flush
flow freely
"The garbage flushed down the river"

12. (verb) flush
glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
"the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

13. (verb) flush, level, even out, even
make level or straight
"level the ground"

14. (verb) flush, scour, purge
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
"flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

15. (verb) sluice, flush
irrigate with water from a sluice
"sluice the earth"

16. (adverb) flush
cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
"flush the meadows"

17. (adverb) flush
squarely or solidly
"hit him flush in the face"

18. (adverb) flush
in the same plane
"set it flush with the top of the table"

Definition of 'flush'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) flush
to clean or be cleaned by making water flow through
to flush the toilet; I heard the toilet flush.

2. flush
to become red in the face from emotion
She flushed at the memory.

Definition of 'flush'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) flush
full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright

2. (adj) flush
affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal

3. (adj) flush
unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint

4. (adj) flush
consisting of cards of one suit

5. (adverb) flush
so as to be level or even

6. (noun) flush
a sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes

7. (noun) flush
a suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow

8. (noun) flush
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

9. (noun) flush
a sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy

10. (noun) flush
a flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed

11. (noun) flush
a hand of cards of the same suit

12. (verb) flush
to flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face

13. (verb) flush
to become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush

14. (verb) flush
to snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow

15. (verb) flush
to start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird

16. (verb) flush
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

17. (verb) flush
to cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement

18. (verb) flush
to make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood

19. (verb) flush
to excite; to animate; to stir

20. (verb) flush
to cause to start, as a hunter a bird

Definitions of 'flush'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. flush
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.

Translation of 'flush'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a flow of blood to the face, making it red A slow flush covered her face.
Afrikaans: gloed; blos	Arabic: إحْمِرار، تَوَرُّد	Bulgarian: руменина
Brazilian: rubor	Czech: ruměnec	German: das Erröten
Danish: rødme	Greek: αναψοκοκκίνισμα, ξάναμμα	Spanish: rubor
Estonian: puna(stus)	Farsi: برافروختگی	Finnish: punastuminen
French: rougeur	Hebrew: הַסמָקָה	Hindi: लालिमा, आवेग
Croatian: rumenilo, navala krvi u l	Hungarian: elvörösödés	Indonesian: memerah
Icelandic: roði	Italian: rossore	Japanese: 紅潮
Korean: (얼굴의) 홍조	Lithuanian: nukaitimas, raudonis	Latvian: pietvīkums
Malay: pam	Dutch: blos	Norwegian: rødme, rødming
Polish: wypieki, rumieniec	Persian: برافروختگی	Pashto: د شرم په اثر د رنګ سور کی
Portuguese: rubor	Romanian: roşeaţă	Russian: румянец
Slovak: červeň	Slovenian: rdečica	Serbian: rumenilo
Swedish: rodnad	Thai: หน้าแดง	Turkish: kızarma
Taiwanese: 紅暈	Ukrainian: прилив крові; рум'янець	Urdu: چہرہ تمتما اٹھنا
Vietnamese: sự hồng hào; sự đỏ mặt	Chinese: 红晕
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