What does flush mean?
Definitions for flush
flʌʃflush
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word flush.
Princeton's WordNet
flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush(noun)
the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
bloom, blush, flush, rosiness(noun)
a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
hot flash, flush(noun)
sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
flush(noun)
a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
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"
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"
blush, flush(adj)
sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
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"
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"
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"
flush(verb)
flow freely
"The garbage flushed down the river"
flush(verb)
glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
"the sky flushed with rosy splendor"
flush, level, even out, even(verb)
make level or straight
"level the ground"
flush, scour, purge(verb)
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
"flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
sluice, flush(verb)
irrigate with water from a sluice
"sluice the earth"
flush(adverb)
cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
"flush the meadows"
flush(adverb)
squarely or solidly
"hit him flush in the face"
flush(adverb)
in the same plane
"set it flush with the top of the table"
GCIDE
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
flush(Noun)
A cleansing with plenty of fluid.
flush(Noun)
Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
flush
A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
flush(Verb)
To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
Flush the injury with plenty of water.
flush(Verb)
Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing lots of water.
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.
flush
To cause to blush.
flush
To excite, inflame.
flush
(Toilets only) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
flush
(Computer Science) To clear a buffer of its contents.
flush(Adjective)
smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.
flush(Adjective)
wealthy or well off.
He just got a bonus so he's flush today.
flush
Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
Webster Dictionary
Flush(verb)
to flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(verb)
to become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(verb)
to snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(verb)
to start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
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.]
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.]
Flush(verb)
to make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(verb)
to excite; to animate; to stir
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(verb)
to cause to start, as a hunter a bird
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
Flush(noun)
a flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(noun)
a hand of cards of the same suit
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(adj)
full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(adj)
affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
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.]
Flush(adj)
consisting of cards of one suit
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Flush(adverb)
so as to be level or even
Etymology: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]
Freebase
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
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.]
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.]
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.]
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
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
FLUSH
From Grk. _phlox_, heat. A rush of color to the cheek, or hand, caused by bodily--or poker--heat.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
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
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'flush' in Verbs Frequency: #1060
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flush in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flush in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of flush in a Sentence
I personally love doing hot/cold, it’s a great way to recover, if you’re going into the hot tub make sure you periodically get out and into a cold shower. For every 5 minutes in hot I do 1 minute in cold-- and the more time you spend in the cold, the better the effect will be-- it helps flush out the lactic acid.
When I am flush, I am happy to part with money, spending makes me happy.
The sector was overvalued and today we're seeing a big flush.
When you gamble on a flush in high-stakes poker, you either win big or lose big, christian Lusardi lost big.
A more encouraging global growth outlook and flush dollar liquidity conditions are undermining the USD, specifically, global fiscal/monetary policy settings will remain accommodative in 2020 and China's growth slowdown is stabilizing.
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- شطفArabic
- промиване, богат, равен, изчервявам се, изравнен, подплашвам, промивам, флошBulgarian
- flešCzech
- Spülung, Spülen, Flush, bündigGerman
- plano, alineado, florSpanish
- ajaa, huuhdella, punastua, vessa, huuhtelu, väri, rahoissaan, rynnätä, lehahtaa, vetääFinnish
- chasse d'eau, flush, de niveau, laver à grande eau, en fonds, aligné, couleur, tirer la chasse d'eau, rougir, richeFrench
- szín, flush, flösHungarian
- ֆլեշArmenian
- liturIcelandic
- volare via, scovare, prendere il volo, stanare, arrossire, levarsi in voloItalian
- 流すJapanese
- horoi, opeope, whare kotahiMāori
- vermogend, doorspoelen, rijk, doortrekken, gefortuneerd, blozen, opvliegen, spoelenDutch
- nettopp, rikNorwegian
- kolorPolish
- descarga, flush, puxar descargaPortuguese
- смывать, промыть, смыть, промыватьRussian
- jämn, färg, spola, rodna, burgen, rik, välmåendeSwedish
- bir hizâda, aynı düzeyde, varlıklı, hem yüz, paralı, çıkıntısızTurkish
- tuôn raVietnamese
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