| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a flushing manner.[Websters]
2. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective flushing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Flushing) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb flush.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flush) | 1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.[Wordnet]. 2. Flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river".[Wordnet]. 3. Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; "the sky flushed with rosy splendor".[Wordnet]. 4. Make level or straight.[Wordnet]. 5. Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics".[Wordnet]. 6. Irrigate with water from a sluice.[Wordnet]. 7. Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows".[Wordnet]. 8. Polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes".[Wordnet]. 9. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.[Websters]. 10. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.[Websters]. 11. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.[Websters]. 12. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.[Websters]. 13. 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.[Websters]. 14. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.[Websters]. 15. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.[Websters]. 16. To excite; to animate; to stir.[Websters]. 17. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.[Websters]. 18. Base verb from the following inflections: flushing, flushed, flushes, flusher, flushers, flushingly and flushedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLUSHINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flush
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Flush v. 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. `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. The Unix/C usage, on the other hand, was propagated by the `fflush(3)' call in C's standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use among BLISS programmers at DEC and on Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers found the ITS usage confusing, and vice versa. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.. | 2: [Verb] To come in haste; to start.. | 3: [Verb] To appear suddenly, as redness or a blush. A blush rose on their cheeks, flushing and fading like the changeful play of colors on a dolphin.. | 4: [Verb] To become suddenly red; to glow; as, the cheeks flush.. | 5: [Verb] To be gay, splendid or beautiful. At once, arrayed in all the colors of the flushing year, the garden glows.. | 6: [Verb] To redden suddenly; to cause the blood to rush suddenly into the face. Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.. | 7: [Verb] To elate; to elevate; to excite the spirits; to animate with joy; as, to flush with victory.. | 8: [Adjective] Fresh, full of vigor; glowing; bright. Flush as May.. | 9: [Adjective] Affluent; abounding; well furnished. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.. | 10: [Adjective] Free to spend; liberal; prodigal. He is very flush with his money. This is a popular use of the word in America. A flush deck, in seamen's language, is a deck without a half-deck or forecastle.. | 11: [Noun] A sudden flow of blood to the face; or more generally, the redness of face which proceeds from such an afflux of blood. Hectic constitutions are often known by a frequent flush in the cheeks.. | 12: [Noun] Sudden impulse or excitement; sudden flow; as a flush of joy.. | 13: [Noun] Bloom; growth; abundance.. | 14: [Noun] A run of cards of the same suit.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| 19th Century Satire | From Grk. phlox, heat. A rush of color to the cheek, or hand, caused by bodily--or poker--heat. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Administration | (1) To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood. (2) To be emptied or cleaned by a rapid flow of water, as a toilet. (3) To open a cold-water tap to clear out all the water which may have been sitting for a long time in the pipes. In new homes, to flush a system means to send large volumes of water gushing through the unused pipes to remove loose particles of solder and flux. (4) To force large amounts of water through liquid to clean out piping or tubing, storage or process tanks. (references) | ||
| Agriculture | 1) To open a cold-water tap to clear out all the water which may have been sitting for a long time in the pipes. m new homes, to flush a system means to send large volumes of water gushing through the unused pipes to remove loose particles of solder and flux. 2) To force large amounts of water through liquid to clean out piping or tubing. storage or process tanks. (references) | ||
| Biology & Biotechnology | A fresh growth of foliage or blossom, particularly when rather sudden. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Environment | 1. To open a cold-water tap to clear out all the water which may have been sitting for a long time in the pipes. In new homes, to flush a system means to send large volumes of water gushing through the unused pipes to remove loose particles of solder and flux. 2. To force large amounts of water through a system to clean out piping or tubing, and storage or process tanks. (references) | ||
| Geography | A site around a streamlet or spring that is kept wet or moist (flushed) by moving water. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Health | Transient, episodic redness of the face and neck caused by certain diseases, ingestion of certain drugs or other substances, heat, emotional factors, or physical exertion. (references) | ||
| Literature | Flush (A), in cards, means a whole hand of one suit, as a "flush of clubs," a "flush of hearts," etc. (See below.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Medicine | Redness of the face and neck. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | A thin projection on the surface or edge; usually produced by penetration of glass into the joint of the mould. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Mining | A. To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water and releasing it periodically in a flood b. To fill underground spaces, as in coal mines, with material carried by water, which after drainage forms a compact mass. (references) | ||
| Physics | To cleanse by a rapid flow of fluid. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Slang | Verb. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: To slam dunk a basketball. Context: Used to describe when a player dunks the basketball. Social Source: Basketball Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | ||
| Sports & Leisure | A slalom figure made up of three or more closed gates in succession. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | Said of a line of type aligned along a right or left margin without indention. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out. Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface. (references) | 2: [Adjective] wealthy or well off. (references) | 3: [Noun] (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit. (references) | 4: [Noun] A cleansing with plenty of fluid. (references) | 5: [Noun] Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet. (references) | 6: [Verb] (intransitive) (Toilets only) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water. (references) | 7: [Verb] (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance. The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion. (references) | 8: [Verb] (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, esp. from cover. A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth. (references) | 9: [Verb] (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing lots of water. (references) | 10: [Verb] (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment. The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake. (references) | 11: [Verb] (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid. Flush the injury with plenty of water. (references) |
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Common Expressions: flush
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Alcohol flush reaction | Alcohol flush reaction, (also known as Asian flush, Asian glow and ADH deficiency) is a condition where the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely, due to a deficiency of an inactive enzyme, aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) which is normally responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde, a byproduct of the metabolism of alcohol. Since acetaldehyde is a toxin, it accumulates and causes flushing if the human body can't break it down. Approximately half of all Asians have a sensitivity to alcohol due to this condition and there is some evidence that this condition exists frequently in people of Jewish descent as well. (references) | ||
| Flush bolt | (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flush deck | Any continuous, unbroken deck from stem to stern. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flush down | Flow freely. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flush it | Fail to get a passing grade. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flush tank | A water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flush the Fashion | Flush the Fashion is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). "Clones (We're All)" cracked the Billboard Magazine Top 40 in the summer of 1980. Musically the album was a drastic change of style for Alice Cooper tending towards New Wave music influences such as Devo. (references) | ||
| Flush toilet | A toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flush toilet | A flush toilet or water closet (WC) is a toilet that disposes of the waste products by using water to sweep them away down a drainpipe. The water is also used as a hygienic barrier between the drainpipe and the user. (references) | ||
| Four flush | The act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hot flush | A Hot flush (sometimes hot flash or night sweat) is a symptom of Menopause and changing hormone levels which typically expresses itself at night as periods of intense heat with sweating and rapid heartbeat and may typically last from two to thirty minutes on each occasion. The event may be repeated a few times each week or up to a dozen times a day, with the frequency reducing over time. Excessive flushing can lead to Rosacea. (references) | ||
| Royal flush | A poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 all in the same suit. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Royal flush | A royal flush is a poker hand containing an ace, king, queen, jack, and a 10 of the same suit (for example A♠ K♠ Q♠ J♠ 10♠). Because it is both a straight (having five cards in sequential rank) and a flush (having five cards of the same suit), it is also known as an ace-high straight flush or Super Flush. (references) | ||
| Royal Flush Gang | The Royal Flush Gang are fictional characters in DC comics. First appeared in Justice League of America #43 in March 1966 as the gang of Professor Amos Fortune. They are a group of playing card themed villains who are usually thwarted by whatever superheroes they encounter. They have code names based on a royal flush in poker i.e. Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten. (references) | ||
| Straight flush | A poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flush
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Air flush | Mining | See: air circulation. (references) | |
| Cut flush | Art | Said of a book cover that has edges perfectly even with the edges of the leaves, the result of having been cut after it was attached to the sections. Most paperback books are cut flush in binding. Synonymous with flush boards and trimmed flush. Compare with squares. (references) | |
| Flush binding | Art | A binding in which the covers are trimmed even with the leaves after having been attached to the sections. Most paperback books have flush covers. Compare with extended binding. See aso: cut flush. (references) | |
| Flush bolt | Business | A door bolt so designed that, when installed, the operating handle is flush with the face or edge of the door. Usually installed at the top and bottom of the inactive door of a double door. (references) | |
| Flush cover | Art | See: flush binding. (references) | |
| Flush door | Business | A smooth surfaced door having faces which are plain and which conceal its rails and stiles or other structure. (references) | |
| Flush ends | Geology | The ends of a blunt-end DNA molecule, where both strands in the double-stranded DNA molecule are even with each other rather than one strand being longer than the other. (references) | |
| FLUSH IN THE POCKET | Slang in 1811 | FLUSH IN THE POCKET. Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Flush left (or Flush right) | Energy | In composition, type is set to line up at the left (or right) margin. (references) | |
| Flush of Money | Literature | 1: "Strut was not very flush in [the] ready." - Dr. Arbuthnot. 2: Full of money. Similarly A flush of water means a sudden and full flow of water. (Latin, flux-us.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Flush production | Mining | The high rate of flow made by a good well right after it is drilled. (references) | |
| Flush water | Mining | Water used to assist the flow of materials in chutes or launders. Cf: top water. (references) | |
| Low Flush Toilet | Energy | A toilet that uses less water than a standard one during flushing, for the purpose of conserving water resources. (references) | |
| Reversed flush boring | Mining | See:counterboring. (references) | |
| To mount flush | Transportation | To attach a piece to another part which then acts as a support. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Water flush | Mining | 1: A system of well boring in which percussive drills are used in connection with water forced down to the bottom of the hole through the drill rods. This water jet makes the tools cut better and washes the detritus up out of the hole. (references) | |
| 2: A drilling method in which water is driven into the borehole through the rod and bit. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Weld dressed flush | Industry | A weld in which the crown has been removed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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