Flush

[flʌʃ]

Definition

(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'.

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

(verb.) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; 'flush the meadows'.

(verb.) flow freely; 'The garbage flushed down the river'.

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

(verb.) make level or straight; 'level the ground'.

(verb.) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light; 'the sky flushed with rosy splendor'.

(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' .

(adv.) squarely or solidly; 'hit him flush in the face'.

(adv.) in the same plane; 'set it flush with the top of the table'.

Typist: Ora--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

(v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.

(v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

(v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

(v. t.) 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.

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

(v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.

(v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.

(v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.

(n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

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

(n.) 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.

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

(n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

(n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.

(a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

(a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

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

(a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.

(adv.) So as to be level or even.

Typist: Lucinda

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Glow, redden.

v. a. [1]. Redden, color, cause to glow.[2]. Animate, elevate, elate, ERECT, excite, make proud.

a. [1]. Glowing, bright, fresh, vigorous.[2]. Affluent, rich, wealthy, opulent, well supplied.[3]. Liberal, free, generous, lavish, prodigal.[4]. Level, even, plane, flat.

n. [1]. Redness, ruddiness, rosiness, glow, bloom.[2]. Sudden impulse.

Edited by Carmella

Definition

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.

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.

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.

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.

Typed by Levi

Unserious Contents or Definition

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

Checked by Jocelyn

Examples

Edited by Davy

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