Definitions for flush
flʌʃflush

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

1. flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flushnoun

   the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

2. bloom, blush, flush, rosinessnoun

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

3. hot flash, flushnoun

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

4. flushnoun

   a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

5. bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kicknoun

   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, outpouringnoun

   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, flushadjective

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

8. flush(p)adjective

   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, wealthyverb

   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, reddenverb

    turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

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

11. flushverb

    flow freely

    "The garbage flushed down the river"

12. flushverb

    glow or cause to glow with warm color or light

    "the sky flushed with rosy splendor"

13. flush, level, even out, evenverb

    make level or straight

    "level the ground"

14. flush, scour, purgeverb

    rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

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

15. sluice, flushverb

    irrigate with water from a sluice

    "sluice the earth"

16. flushadverb

    cause to flow or flood with or as if with water

    "flush the meadows"

17. flushadverb

    squarely or solidly

    "hit him flush in the face"

18. flushadverb

    in the same plane

    "set it flush with the top of the table"

GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Flushnoun

   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. flushnoun

   A cleansing with plenty of fluid.

2. flushnoun

   Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.

3. flush

   A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

4. flushverb

   To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.

   Flush the injury with plenty of water.

5. flushverb

   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. flushadjective

    smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.

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

12. flushadjective

    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. Flushverb

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

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

2. Flushverb

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

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

3. Flushverb

   to snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow

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

4. Flushverb

   to start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird

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

5. Flushverb

   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. Flushverb

   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. Flushverb

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

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

8. Flushverb

   to excite; to animate; to stir

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

9. Flushverb

   to cause to start, as a hunter a bird

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

10. Flushnoun

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

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

11. Flushnoun

    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. Flushnoun

    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. Flushnoun

    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. Flushnoun

    a flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed

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

15. Flushnoun

    a hand of cards of the same suit

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

16. Flushadjective

    full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright

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

17. Flushadjective

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

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

18. Flushadjective

    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. Flushadjective

    consisting of cards of one suit

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

20. Flushadverb

    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.

Matched Categories

1. • Change Surface
   • Drench
   • Excitement
   • Glow
   • Poker Hand
   • Rinse
   • Run
   • Symptom

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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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. 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.

2. Garrett Boyte:

   That doesn't seem fair to me ... that people are paying for water that they can only use to flush the toilet.

3. Hiroshi Oka:

   We need the water supply back, what we are getting is a thin stream of water, and we can't flush toilets or wash our hands.

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. Laila Tabatabai:

   Drinking extra water can actually help flush out some of the extra sugar you’ve eaten.

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