Definitions for flush
flʌʃflush

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush(noun)

   the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

2. bloom, blush, flush, rosiness(noun)

   a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

3. hot flash, flush(noun)

   sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

4. flush(noun)

   a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

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

   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. flush, gush, outpouring(noun)

   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. blush, flush(adj)

   sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

8. flush(p)(adj)

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

   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. blush, crimson, flush, redden(verb)

    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

    "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

11. flush(verb)

    flow freely

    "The garbage flushed down the river"

12. flush(verb)

    glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

    "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

13. flush, level, even out, even(verb)

    make level or straight

    "level the ground"

14. flush, scour, purge(verb)

    rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

    "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

15. sluice, flush(verb)

    irrigate with water from a sluice

    "sluice the earth"

16. flush(adverb)

    cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

    "flush the meadows"

17. flush(adverb)

    squarely or solidly

    "hit him flush in the face"

18. flush(adverb)

    in the same plane

    "set it flush with the top of the table"

GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flush(n.)

   A hand of cards, all of the same suit; -- especially significant in poker, where five cards of the same suit constitute a flush, which beats a straight but is beaten by a full house or four of a kind.

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. flush(Noun)

   A cleansing with plenty of fluid.

2. flush(Noun)

   Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.

3. flush

   A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

4. flush(Verb)

   To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.

   Flush the injury with plenty of water.

5. flush(Verb)

   Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing lots of water.

6. flush

   To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.

   The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.

7. flush

   To cause to blush.

8. flush

   To excite, inflame.

9. flush

   (Toilets only) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.

10. flush

    (Computer Science) To clear a buffer of its contents.

11. flush(Adjective)

    smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.

    Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.

12. flush(Adjective)

    wealthy or well off.

    He just got a bonus so he's flush today.

13. flush

    Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flush(verb)

   to flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

2. Flush(verb)

   to become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

3. Flush(verb)

   to snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

4. Flush(verb)

   to start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

5. Flush(verb)

   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

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

6. Flush(verb)

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

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

7. Flush(verb)

   to make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

8. Flush(verb)

   to excite; to animate; to stir

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

9. Flush(verb)

   to cause to start, as a hunter a bird

   Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

10. Flush(noun)

    a sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

11. Flush(noun)

    a suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

12. Flush(noun)

    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

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

13. Flush(noun)

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

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

14. Flush(noun)

    a flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

15. Flush(noun)

    a hand of cards of the same suit

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

16. Flush(adj)

    full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

17. Flush(adj)

    affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

18. Flush(adj)

    unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

19. Flush(adj)

    consisting of cards of one suit

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

20. Flush(adverb)

    so as to be level or even

    Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flush

   Flush is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2005, and set in Hiaasen's native Florida. It is his second young adult novel, after Hoot. The plot is similar to Hoot but it doesn't have the same cast and is not a continuation.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flush

   flush, n. a flow of blood to the face causing redness: sudden impulse: bloom, freshness, vigour: abundance.—v.i. to become red in the face: to flow swiftly.—v.t. to make red in the face: to cleanse by a copious flow of water: to elate, excite the spirits of: mostly in the pa.p. flushed (with victory).—adj. (of weather) hot and heavy: abounding: well supplied, as with money: (Shak.) in full bloom.—n. Flush′-box, a rectangular tank supplied with water for flushing the bowls of water-closets.—adj. Flushed, suffused with ruddy colour: excited.—ns. Flush′er, one who flushes sewers; Flush′ing, action of the verb flush: sudden reddening; Flush′ness, quality of being flush.—adj. Flush′y, reddish. [Prob. orig. identical with succeeding word, but meaning influenced by phonetic association with flash, the senses relating to colour by blush.]

2. Flush

   flush, v.i. to start up like an alarmed bird.—v.t. to rouse and cause to start off.—n. the act of starting: (Spens.) a bird, or a flock of birds so started. [Prob. onomatopœic; suggested by fly, flutter, and rush.]

3. Flush

   flush, v.t. to make even: to fill up to the level of a surface (often with up).—adj. having the surface level with the adjacent surface. [Prob. related to flush above.]

4. Flush

   flush, n. in card-playing, a hand in which all the cards or a specified number are of the same suit.—adj. in poker, consisting of cards all of the same suit.—Straight, or Royal, flush, in poker, a sequence of five cards of the same suit. [Prob. Fr. flux—L. fluxus, flow.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. FLUSH

   From Grk. _phlox_, heat. A rush of color to the cheek, or hand, caused by bodily--or poker--heat.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. flush

   An old word for even or level. Anything of fair surface, or in continuous even lines. Colloquially the word means full of, or abounding in pay or prize-money.

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'flush' in Verbs Frequency: #1060

How to pronounce flush?

1. Alex

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flush in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flush in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of flush in a Sentence

1. Laurie Adams:

   We'll help her set up a quit plan, we'll give her things to do instead of smoking when the urge hits, such as deep breathing, drinking water to flush out toxins and reaching out to a support system. We'll teach her how to reduce stress and avoid triggers.

2. Trilby Lundberg:

   In the absence of any significant rise in crude oil prices, which have been quite stable over more than two months, the flush supply and high refining capacity utilization in the U.S. has offset the impact of our robustly growing gasoline demand.

3. John Smith:

   We didn't even have time to empty the garbage, i'm going in first with a flashlight and wearing a mask, and one of us will open the doors and windows and flush the house out.

4. Mike Conaway:

   As chairman of the Ag Committee, I got to protect the integrity of the farm bill, the overall impact is to flush insurance companies out of business, which I think is the President's intent.

5. Brett Favre:

   The crazy thing was, I ’m not a night owl. Without pills I ’d fall asleep at 9:30. But with pills, I could get so much done, I just figured, ‘ This is awesome. ’ Little did I know [ fiance and now wife ] Deanna would be finding some of my pills and when she did, she ’d flush them down the toilet.

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