FLUSH

flush

(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”

affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy, substantial

(adjective) 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”; “a substantial family”

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”

blush, flush

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

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”

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

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

bloom, blush, flush, rosiness

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

flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush

(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

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) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; “flush the meadows”

flush

(verb) flow freely; “The garbage flushed down the river”

sluice, flush

(verb) irrigate with water from a sluice; “sluice the earth”

flush, scour, purge

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

flush, level, even out, even

(verb) make level or straight; “level the ground”

flush

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

flush (plural flushes)

A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.

Verb

flush (third-person singular simple present flushes, present participle flushing, simple past and past participle flushed)

(transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.

(intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

Etymology 2

Same as Etymology 3, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

Adjective

flush (comparative flusher, superlative flushest)

Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.

Wealthy or well off.

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

Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.

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

Synonyms

• (typography): double-clean, flush left and right, forced, forced justified, force justified, justified

Etymology 3

Probably from Etymology 1 according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

Noun

flush (plural flushes)

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

Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.

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

Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.

A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.

Verb

flush (third-person singular simple present flushes, present participle flushing, simple past and past participle flushed)

(transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.

(transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.

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

(transitive) To cause to blush.

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.

(transitive) To excite, inflame.

(intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.

(transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.

To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

(masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.

(mining, intransitive) 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.

(mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

(intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet

Usage notes

In sense “turn red with embarrassment”, blush is more common. More finely, in indicating the actual change, blush is usual – “He blushed with embarrassment” – but in indicating state, flushed is also common – “He was flushed with excitement”.

Synonyms

• (turn red with embarrassment): blush

Etymology 4

Noun

flush (plural flushes)

(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

Source: Wiktionary

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Flush, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flushing.] Etym: [Cf. OE. fluschen to fly up, penetrate, F. fluz a flowing, E. flux, dial. Sw. flossa to blaze, and E. flash; perh. influenced by blush. *84.]

1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

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

3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton.

4. To star Flushing from one spray unto another. W. Browne.

Flush, v. t.

1. 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.

2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement. Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.

4. To excite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.

5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. Nares. To flush a joints (Masonry), to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.

Flush, n.

1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. In manner of a wave or flush. Ray.

2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. The flush of angered shame. Tennyson.

3. 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.

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

5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

6. Etym: [From F. or Sp. flux. Cf. Flux.]

Definition: A hand of cards of the same suit.

Flush, a.

1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak.

2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

3. (Arch. & Mech.)

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

4. (Card Playing)

Definition: Consisting of cards of one suit. 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.

– Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1.

– Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

Flush, adv.

Definition: So as to be level or even.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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