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Flush

Definition: Flush

Flush

Adjective

1. 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".

2. 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".

Adverb

1. Squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face".

2. In the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table".

Noun

1. The period of greatest prosperity or productivity.

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

3. Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders).

4. A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit.

5. The swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a rush!"; "he does it for kicks".

6. 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. Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty).

Verb

1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by".

2. Flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river".

3. Polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes".

4. Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics".

5. Irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth".

6. Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Note: Flush \Flush\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Flushed; Flushing.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Flush

DomainDefinition

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.

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.

Biology & Biotechnology

A site around a streamlet or spring that is kept wet or moist(flushed)by moving water. 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)

Food & Agriculture

A fresh growth of foliage or blossom, particularly when rather sudden. 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)

Industry

A thin projection on the surface or edge; usually produced by penetration of glass into the jont of the mould. Source: European Union. (references)

Language

Redness of the face and neck. Source: European Union. (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.

Mechanical Engineering

To cleanse by a rapid flow of fluid. 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)

Slang

Verb. Source: Unclear. 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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Flush (poker)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Readers note: If your web browser does not display the card suit symbols below, see the section below.

A poker hand such as Q♣ 10♣ 7♣ 6♣ 4♣, which contains five cards of the same suit, not in rank sequence. Ranks above a Straight and below a Full house.

Two flushes are compared as if they were No pair hands. In other words, the highest ranking card of each is compared to determine the winner; if both have the same high card, then the second-highest ranking card is compared, etc. The suits have no value: two flushes with the same five ranks of cards are tied.

Examples:

When Wild cardss are used, a wild card contained in a flush is considered to be of the highest rank not already present in the hand. For example, in the hand (Wild) 10♥ 8♥ 5♥ 4♥, the wild card plays as the A♥, but in the hand A♣ K♣ (Wild) 9♣ 6♣, it plays as the Q♣.

Some home games and some casinos play the Double-ace flush rule, in which a wild card in a flush always plays as an ace, even if one is already present. In such a game, the hand A♠ (Wild) 9♠ 5♠ 2♠ would defeat A♦ K♦ Q♦ 10♦ 8♦ (the wild card playing as an imaginary second A♠), whereas by the standard rules it would lose (because even with the wild card playing as a K♠, the latter hand's Q♦ outranks the former's 9♠). This rule is rare, and is an exception to standard practice, so it should be announced clearly if you intend to use it.

Some poker games are played with a deck that has been stripped of certain cards, usually low-ranking ones. For example, the Australian game of Manila uses a 32-card deck in which all cards below the rank of 7 are removed, and Mexican stud removes the 8s, 9s, and 10s. In both of these games, a flush ranks above a full house, because having fewer cards of each suit available makes flushes rarer.

See also : Poker

Readers note: This section uses the letters c, d, h, and s to indicate card suits.

A poker hand such as Qc 10c 7c 6c 4c, which contains five cards of the same suit, not in rank sequence. Ranks above a Straight and below a Full house.

Two flushes are compared as if they were No pair hands. In other words, the highest ranking card of each is compared to determine the winner; if both have the same high card, then the second-highest ranking card is compared, etc. The suits have no value: two flushes with the same five ranks of cards are tied.

Examples:

When Wild cardss are used, a wild card contained in a flush is considered to be of the highest rank not already present in the hand. For example, in the hand (Wild) 10h 8h 5h 4h, the wild card plays as the Ah, but in the hand Ac Kc (Wild) 9c 6c, it plays as the Qc.

Some home games and some casinos play the Double-ace flush rule, in which a wild card in a flush always plays as an ace, even if one is already present. In such a game, the hand As (Wild) 9s 5s 2s would defeat Ad Kd Qd 10d 8d (the wild card playing as an imaginary second As), whereas by the standard rules it would lose (because even with the wild card playing as a Ks, the latter hand's Qd outranks the former's 9s). This rule is rare, and is an exception to standard practice, so it should be announced clearly if you intend to use it.

Some poker games are played with a deck that has been stripped of certain cards, usually low-ranking ones. For example, the Australian game of Manila uses a 32-card deck in which all cards below the rank of 7 are removed, and Mexican stud removes the 8s, 9s, and 10s. In both of these games, a flush ranks above a full house, because having fewer cards of each suit available makes flushes rarer.

See also : Poker

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flush (poker)."

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Synonyms: Flush

Synonyms: affluent (adj), flush(p) (adj), loaded (adj), moneyed (adj), wealthy (adj), bang (n), bloom (n), blossom (n), blush (n), boot (n), charge (n), efflorescence (n), flower (n), gush (n), heyday (n), hot flash (n), kick (n), outpouring (n), peak (n), prime (n), rosiness (n), rush (n), thrill (n), buff (v), burnish (v), crimson (v), furbish (v), redden (v), scour (v), sluice (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Flush

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere;

Cleanness

Clean, cleanse; mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.

Drunkenness

Woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed.

Excitability

Passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.

Feeling

Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath.

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Flatness

Adjective: flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level; (horizontal); flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.

Health

Adjective: healthy, healthful; in health; Noun: well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof.

Heat

Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.

Noun: heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic.

Rejoicing

Noun: rejoicing, exultation, triumph, jubilation, heyday, flush, revelling; merrymaking; (amusement); jubilee; (celebration); paean, Te Deum; (thanksgiving); congratulation.

River

Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation.

Sufficiency

Full.; (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; Verb: replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Flush

English words defined with "flush": affluentBead and butt, blooming, Breastsummer, butt hingeCarvelbuilt, carvel-built, cisterndrilling fluid, drilling mud, drop line, droplineFlush bolt, flushed, Flushing, FlushnessgushJib door, Jump jointlap-jointed, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked, loadedmanhole, manhole cover, moneyedoutpouring, Overflush, overlappingperfuse, pull chainrose-cheeked, rosy, rosy-cheeked, RubescenceShallow-waisted, Staff angle, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line, suffuse, suit, SunglowT hinge, T.B., tee hinge, To dye in grain, To elevate a piece, To flush a jointswater tank, wealthy, weighbridge. (references)
Specialty definitions using "flush": air circulation, Air Sparging, air swivel, ARCH-CUSHION-SKIVING-MACHINE OPERATOR, ASSEMBLER, STEAM-AND-GAS TURBINEBATCH MAKER, BOILER-OPERATOR HELPER, BOILING-TUB OPERATOR, BRINE-WELL OPERATORCANER II, CASTING-MACHINE-SERVICE OPERATOR, CHAIR INSPECTOR AND LEVELER, cinder pit, CLARIFIER-OPERATOR HELPER, coil cleaner, Conrad counterflush coring system, COOKER CLEANER, COUNTERBORING, crusher, wet-ground mica, curing packerDavis calyx drill, direct mapped cache, Drive it homeEDGE BANDER, MACHINE, EXTRACTOR-PLANT OPERATORFauvelle, FILTER OPERATOR, FLUSH IN THE POCKET, Flush of Money, fully associative cachegreen-meat packerHonigmann processIn-Situ Flushing, insole gemmer, INSOLE REINFORCER, insole-cloth trimmer, ION-EXCHANGE OPERATORjet drilling, jump trace bufferLABORER, STARCH FACTORY, LAST IRONER, LAST-MODEL MAKER, leadman, turbine assembly, least recently used, Linkenbach tableMILLER, WET PROCESS, model makerNAPHTHA-WASHING-SYSTEM OPERATORPAN HELPER, patcher-wood welder, PRIMING-MIXTURE CARRIER, pump operator, brine well, PUMP OPERATOR, BYPRODUCTS, pump tenderreplacement algorithm, ROTARY DERRICK OPERATORsalvage worker, SCARFING MACHINE OPERATOR, side heading, side note, sidehead, sludge box, STOCK PATCHER, stock repairer, STOCK SHAPER, strip-borer drill, suppressed weirtar-and-ammonia pump operator, TEST FIXTURE ASSEMBLER, thermal boring, tow conveyor, TRAPPER, BIRD, trimmer and reinforcerUTILITY WORKER, PRODUCTION, utility worker, virusvat overhauler, vat packerwashing-tub operator, WASH-MILL OPERATOR, WELT CUTTER, welt maker, wire-line drill rod. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Flush" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (flush), French (flush), German (flush).

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Modern Usage: Flush

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Moltar, flush the lake (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin)

Hey, your clock wont flush! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Well, I guess hard times flush the chump (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

You want us to knock it down flush with the mall (Volcano; writing credit: Jerome Armstrong)

I got a straight flush, ten high (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: John Sayles)

Clever

About 1 3 of all Americans say they do this while sitting? Flush the toilet. (references; author: unknown)

You are an engineer if you know the direction the water swirls when you flush. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Four Flush Actor (1912)

Mr. Four Flush (1910)

Flush (2003)

Another Flush (2003)

Vegas 1: Royal Flush (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Flush

DomainTitle

Books

  • Flush (Isis Series) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Flush!: Treating Wastewater (reference)

  • Goodbye to the Flush Toilet: Water-Saving Alternatives to Cesspools, Septic Tanks, and Sewers (reference)

  • The Fat Flush Cookbook (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Monkees, Vol. 06 - Royal Flush / Monkees at the Circus (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Fein 63502112021 Flush Cut Wood Blade for Hardwoods (reference)

  • Fein 63502113019 Flush Cut Wood Blade (reference)

  • Fein MSXE-636-2 Multi-Master Electric Variable Speed Kit includes Flush Cutting Blade and Scraper Blade a $44.00 Value (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Flush

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Flush

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A flush tank and lagoon system keeps the feeding area clean for these Missouri dairy cattle. The lagoon also stores nutrients for future application to pastures. Credit: Ken Hammond.

[16th century flush toilet]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Flush".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash.Squash; flatten; smoosh; smash; abrade; beat down; bowl over; compress; crush; debase; deflate; depress; even out; fell; floor; flush; grade; ground; iron out; knock down; lay; lay low; level; mow down; plane; plaster; prostrate; raze; roll; smash; smooth.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Flush

AuthorQuotation

Prince Philip Edinburgh

The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Flush

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A crimson flush was glowing on her cheek, that had been long so pale

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

A remembrance of some of his lines made a sudden flush rise to his painted cheeks

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He ran his finger up and down to make sure that the rings and wire were flush with the wall

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Flush

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A hot flash or flush is common in perimenopause. (references)

Continue drinking a lot of water to flush the bladder. (references)

Other effects can include flush, dizziness, and headache. (references)

Business

Hence, after the completion of the leasing process, AAI will be flush with funds that can be used for the development and modernization of other airports, thus creating additional markets for aviation products. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

However, economic experts note that unless concrete economic reforms are finally taken, the flush of consumerism that has been fueling the positive indicators will soon fade. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

According to the police, the exercise was intended to flush out suspected criminals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Flush

"Flush" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 48.73% of the time. "Flush" is used about 588 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)48.73%28717,188
Lexical Verb (infinitive)21.22%12528,650
Adverb (general)19.35%11430,294
Lexical Verb (base form)5.26%3162,296
Adjective (general or positive)5.09%3063,341
Noun (proper)0.34%2245,945
                    Total100.00%588N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Flush

Expressions using "flush": core flush fit flush flush away Flush bolt Flush deck flush down flush it flush left flush light flush nut flush out flush right flush royal flush scarlet flush statement Flush tank flush times flush toilet flush up flush water four flush royal flush sequence flush straight flush To flush a joints to mount flush water flush weld dressed flush. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "flush": flush-faced, flush-fitted, flush-fitting, flush-mounted, flush-panelled, flush-pipe, flush-right, flush-seamed, flush-toilets.

Ending with "flush": a-flush, cistern-flush, dual-flush, full-flush, low-flush, near-flush, plug-flush, pour-flush, reduced-flush.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Flush

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fat flush

342

flush mount ceiling fan

19

fat flush diet

265

kidney flush

19

fat flush plan

238

fat flush diet plan

18

liver flush

100

dns flush

18

radiator flush

90

fat flush program

17

royal flush

77

fat flush recipe

16

gall bladder flush

73

flush power toilet

16

flush

66

coolant flush

16

flush transmission

62

mysqladmin flush host

16

engine flush

51

colon flush

15

sloan flush valve

44

flush mount signal turn

14

flush toilet

37

gall stone flush

13

hot flush

35

flush bolt

13

flush toilet up

35

flip flush n

12

flush sinus

31

dual flush toilet

12

internal flush

30

flush free niacin

11

niacin flush

29

cooling system flush

11

flush valve

26

body flush

11

69.20.6.102 b b because blocked br connection error flush host host in many mysqladmin unblock warning

23

fat flush kit

11

low flush toilet

21

flush pull

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Flush

Language Translations for "flush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

freski rinore, laj (bathe, clear, do, elutriate, liquidate, pay up, rinse out, scour, settle, sponge, take out, wash), barazoj (coordinate, draw, equal, equalize, equate, equiponderant, even, tie), buisje, dorëgjerë (bounteous, bountiful, lavish), drejtpërdrejt (closely, direct, directly, immediately), i begatë (affluent, flourishing, fulsome, luxuriant, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, wealthy), i bollshëm (affluent, ample, exuberant, fat, fulsome, generous, good, hearty, heavy, lavish, liberal, man-sized, over, plenteous, plenty, profuse, spacious), i drejtpërdrejtë (direct, first hand, immediate, literal, live, outright, play-by-play, plump, point blank), i plotë (all out, big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), çurg (spout, spray, spurt, squirt), i skuqur (erubescent, fried, glowing, livid, red, red-hot), vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), ndjenjë të nxehtë, ngazëllej (elate, elevate, enrapture, hearten, transport, triumph, vibrate), ngazëllim (cheer, ecstasy, elation, enthusiasm, exultancy, exultation, gladness, jubilance, Jubilate, jubilation, kick, rapture, vibrancy, vibration), nxehtësi në turp, rrafsh (flat, plane), rrafshoj (equalize, even, flatten, level), rrjedh vrullshëm, skuqem në fytyrë, skuqje (color, colour, glow, incandescence, reddening, redness), turret (spill over oneself), i rrafshët (even, flat, horizontal, level, plane, tabulate, unpointed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فورة (gust, outburst), ‏هاج (carry along, carry away, excite, fling about, fluster, inflame, kindle, ramp, rave, seethe, thrill, toss, vex), ‏نماء النبات, ‏نضارة (youthfulness), ‏وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rich, rife, riotous, ripe, voluminous), ‏حمية (ardor, ardour, diet, enthusiasm, regimen, zeal), ‏غسل بماء دافق, ‏غزير (abundant, bumper, copious, exuberant, hard, massive, opulent, overmanned, plenteous, plenty, profluent, profuse, rampant, redundant, superabundant, torrential, voluminous), ‏توهج (blaze, fervency, fervor, fervour, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flare, glitter, glow, incandesce, radiance), ‏تورد (bloom, blush, glowing, mantle, sallowness), ‏تدفق فجائي, ‏سورة الحمى, ‏جفل طائرا, ‏إندفع (bicker, break out, dash, fling, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, scramble, stampede, stream, surge, swarm, tumble, urge, zip), ‏أشاع الدم في وجهه. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

поруменявам (blush, color, colour), избива ме горещина, бърз растеж, бликвам (break forth, break out, burst, spirt, spring, spurt, stream), пълен до горе (brimful), прочиствам (evacuate, open, purge, scour, weed out), промиване (ablution, douche, lavement, sluice), право (authorization, claim, clean, directly, due, fair, jurisprudence, jus, law, perquisite, place, pretension, right, slap, smack, spang, straight, straightway, upright), пристъп на треска, бързо разлистване, придошъл (proud), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), паралия (heeled, loaded, made of money, moneyed), пламвам (burn up, catch fire, fire, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, kindle, take, turn scarlet), изравнявам (balance, dress, equalize, even, flatten, level, plane, roll), изравнено, изчервяване (blush, high color), изчервявам се (get red in the face, mantle, redden), изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, fat, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, redundant, rich, substantial, thick, unstinted, wealthy), изобилие (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, fertility, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, quantity, raft, redundance, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity, teeming), изблик (access, accession, burst, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, exuberance, flare, flash, flood, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outflow, passion, riot, rush, spasm, spate, spirt, spurt, surge, wave), прилив на кръв, флош, свежест (bloom, crispness, dew, fairness, fresh, freshness, newness, verdure), сияя (beam, burn, irradiate, shine), сияние (aureola, aureole, eradiation, irradiance, irradiation, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, sheen), силна струя (gush, onrush, spirt, spout, spurt), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), руменина (blush, color, colour, glow, high color, redness, suffusion), равен (concurrent, equal, even, fellow, flat, level, like, on a par with, peer, smooth, stricken, tantamount), бързо разпъпване, червендалест (rubicund, ruddy), ято птици излитащи едновременно, въодушевявам (elate, inspire, intoxicate, invigorate, reanimate, spirit, warm), вдигане (heaving, hoist, lift), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), огън (blaze, fire, flame, flushing, ingle, light), наравно (equally, fifty fifty, pari passu), нахлувам в лицето (mantle), направо (dead, direct, directly, due, firsthand, flat, forthright, incontinently, outright, plain, plump, point blank, right, roundly, slap, slap bang, straight, straight out), зачервявам се (become flushed, blush, fire, purple, rouge), заливам (flash, flood, inundate, lick, overflow, overrun, perfuse, sluice, splash, swamp, whelm), щедър (benevolent, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, generous, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, liberal, lordly, munificent, openhanded, pickwickian, princely, prodigal, profuse, stintless, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

發紅 , 淹' (submerge), 冲洗 (flushed, Flushing, rinse, Swashed, Swashing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zardít se (color up, colour up), zaèervenat se (blush, color up, colour up), spláchnout (become flushed, swill, wash), rumìnec (blush, glow, vermeil), proud (current, drift, flood, flow, gush, jet, race, river, run, spout, stream, trend), příval vody, nával (crush, influx, paroxysm, squash, squeeze, surge). (various references)

   

Danish

  

flush, vandsygt sted, skytle, skud (bang, blast, clump shoots, filling, filling weft, fruit cane, green shoot, pick, rod, shoot, shot, shute, sprout, tiller, weft, woof), rødmen, overpresning (fin, flash, overflush, overpress). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

flush, verzonken, persnaad (fin, flash, overflush, overpress), loot (child, layer, offspring, shoot, young), ingelaten, het uitkomen, het uitbotten, doorspoelen (sluicing), braam (blackberry, blackberry bush, bramble). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

purse (fin, flash, overflush, overpress, spew), punastua (blush, colour, redden), huuhtoa (rise, wash), huuhdella (rinse, wash). (various references)

   

French

  

rougeur, flush (flushing). (various references)

   

German

  

wallung (surging), spülen (douche, gargle, irrigate, rinse, scavenge, swill, to flush (out), wash, wash up), Flush (flushing), bündig (accurate, concise, conclusive, exactly, flush (with), precise, sharp, succinct, terse). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοκκινίζω (blotch, blush, blush at, go red, redden). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשטוף במים (sluice), ל"סמיק (blush, mantle, redden), לסמוק (blush, redden), שופע (abounding, abundant, bounteous, bountiful, copious, fertile, opulent, plentiful, profuse, rich, superabundant, superfluous), שטוח (even, extending, flat, flattened, flattening, spreading out), פורח (blooming, flourishing), או"ם (carneol, redness), א"מומית (redness), א"ום (ducat, florin, gold coin, gulder, red, scarlet), '"וש (brimful, congested, crowded, full, packed, plentiful, redundant, replete), טפוף (exact). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

áradás (flash flood, flood, high water, spate, sweep, swelling). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

semangat (courage, elan, esprit, genie, gusto, mercury, pep, spirit, verve, zeal, zest), menyembur (jet), gejolak (fire, flaming, fluctuation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

arrossire (bash, blush, color, colour, crimson, redden). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

紅潮 (blush), フラクション活動 (flag, flannel, flap, flap pocket, flapper, flash, flashback, flashlight, flask, flat, flat collar, flat race, fractal, fraction activity, fragment, fragmentation, frappe, fresco, frustration, hula dance, news flash). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

フラッシュ (flash), "うちょう (bird of passage, blush, favourable, flood tide, hard tone, headmaster, high spirits, high tide, in good shape, migratory bird, nightingale, offices of a public or governmental organization, principal, promising, satisfactory, surge). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

홍조. (various references)

   

Manx

  

stroolagh, niee (bathe, launder, pan, wash), jiargaghey (blush, glow, redden), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, drop off, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, hang, increase, move, pitch, postulate, put up, relinquish, relinquishment, represent, retire, set on fire, surrender), corrym (adequate, amends, candid, equal, equitable, equivalent, even, exact, flat, flat rate of pay, impartial, justice, level, par, pregnant, revenge, satisfaction, tally, tantamount, treatment), brooightey (burst forth of liquid, debouch, debouchment, emission, emit, gush). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

strøm (current, flood, flow, high tide), spyle, rødme (blush), glatt (even, glib, glossy, icy, lank). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushflay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

rubor (blush, blushing, color, colour, glow, redness, rose, ruddiness, suffusion). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

friguri (fever), face sã se înroşeascã, abundent (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, copious, exuberant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, profusely, rank, rich), ţâşni (break forth, burst, gush, splash, spout, spring, squirt), exaltare (elation, exaltation), emoţie (agitation, emotion, excitement, feeling, flutter, heart-beat, sensation, thrill, tremor, turn), curge şiroaie, culoare (color, colour, colouring, dye, hue, relief, straight, tincture, tinge, tint), colora (blush, color, colour, dye, exaggerate, paint, stain, tincture, tinge, tint), inundat, acces de febrã, jet de apã, aţâţa (abet, blood, brighten, fan, foment, incite, inflame, instigate, mend, quicken, tempt, whet), înmugurire (burgeoning, gemmation), înflãcãra (exalt, fire, heat, inflame, rouse), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flood, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp), încolţire, îmbujorare (blushing, floridity), îmbujora (blush, dye), îmbelşugat (abundant, affluent, fat, fruitful, plenteous, rich, wealthy), îmbãta (inebriate, intoxicate, muddle, swill, tipple), şuvoi (flood, flux, Gill, gush, gushing, jet, outpour, stack, stream, torrent), se revãrsa (brim over, cascade, disgorge, overflow, overrun, pour, run over, wash over), val de sânge în obraji, umple de mândrie, umflat (baggy, bloated, blubber, bombastic, bulging, dropsical, gummy, high-flown, inflated, long, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid), temperaturã (burning, fever, fire, temperature), strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fineness, fire, flame, flash, flashing, gaiety, glitter, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), spãlare cu un şuvoi de apã, spãla cu un şuvoi de apã, spãla (bathe, clean, fade, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, sweep, wash, wash up), inunda (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, shower, submerge, swamp), se ridica (amount, arise, come up, crest, get up, heave, lift, Mount, rise, shoot up, stand, uprise), vigoare (effect, emphasis, energy, force, pep, rankness, sap, snap, stamina, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, vigor, vigour, vim), se înroşi (flame, redden, turn red), se înflãcãra (flame), se îmbujora (glow), roşi (blush, make red, redden, rouge), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), prospeţime (freshness, greenness, novelty), potopi (flood, inundate, ravage, submerge), plin de tot (brimful), neted (clear, even, evenly, flat, lank, level ground, plain, plane, polished, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, smoothly), sentiment (conception, emotion, feeling, pathos, sensation, sense, sentiment, view). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

возбуждать (actuate, agitate, energize, engender, exasperate, excite, galvanize, hype up, incite, inflame, innervate, kindle, lash, pique), полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter), прилив крови (afflux), приступ лихорадки, промывать (bathe, hydrated, irrigate, wash, wet out), заподлицо, затоплять (deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow, scuttle, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog), изобилующий (abundant, abundant in, fertile, full, prolific, replete, rife with), внезапный прилив воды, струя воды, воодушевлять (animate, enkindle, enliven, ensoul, inspire, rouse, spirit, warm), вспугнутая стая птиц, карты одной масти, расцвет (bloom, flowering, heyday, noon, pride), румянец (bloom, blush, glow, high color, high colour, roses, ruddiness, suffusion), сбрасывать краска, упоение, внезапный прилив. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ruaim (a flush of anger on the face). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zanos (delirium, enthusiasm, fascination, fervor, fervour, inspiration, ravishment, trance), ushititi (delight, elate, exalt, overjoy, thrill), u istoj ravni, tekuća voda, svežina (buoyant, coolness, crispness, freshness, greenness, lustiness), sprati (scour, wash away, wash off), rumenilo (blush, vermilion, vermillion), rumen (blush, florid, incarnadine, rosy, ruddy, vermilion, vermillion), obilno (bountifully), obilan (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, full, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, torrential, unsparing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

flux, flush, funcionar (act, behave, function, functionate, go, live, operate, perform, play, roll, run, start, tape, work), ruborizarse (blush, color, colour, redden), a ras, abundacia (abundance), arrebol (blush, glow), brote (bud, burgeon, outbreak, shoot, shooting, sprout, upsurge), calor (heat, warm, warmth), color (color, colour, dye, hue, tail, tint), enrojecer (blotch, blush, redden), a nivel (as, as for, even, in keeping with, level, true), rebaba (bur, burr), sofocarse (choke, smother, stifle, suffocate), rubor (blush, blushing, redness, rubicundity, ruddiness, suffusion), levantar (adjourn, boost, break up, build, dig up, draw up, elevate, erect, get up, heave, heft, hitch, hoist, hold up, Jack, lever, lift, lift up, pick up, prick, pull up, push up, put up, raise, raise up, rear, ring up, rouse, set up, spring, start, take, tip, to raise, up, wind up), marjal (moss), nivelado (even, level), nivelar (even, iron out, level, top up), enjuagar (rinse, rinse out, swill out, wash out, wash up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spola (ditch, irrigate, rinse, scrub, sluice, spool, swill, wash, wind), rodna (blush, crimson, grow red, redden), blossa (blaze, burn, flare, kindle, whiff). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

floş (floss, floss silk, silk floss), fışkırmak (belch, blow, burst, ejaculate, erupt, gush out, spout, spurt, squirt, well, well forth, well out, well up), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), düzlemek (even, flatten, plane, plaster, point up, shallow, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth out, smooth over, try out), düz (even, flat, flatways, flatwise, horizontal, level, plain, plane, platy-, right, slick, smooth, straight), coşturmak (carry away, ecstasize, elate, enthuse, exhilarate, inflame, key up, lend wings to, root for, send, steam up, sweep away, sweep off, transport, warm up, whoop it up), çıkıntısız, cömert (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, freehearted, generous, handsome, large handed, liberal, munificent, open handed, openhanded, profuse, ungrudging, unsparing), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), boşlukları doldurup sıvamak, bir hizada, ateş (blaze, fever, fire, heat, mettle, pyro-, temperature), ankastre, ağzına kadar dolu (brimful, chock-a-block, full to overflowing), aşırı cömertlik, coşkunluk (abundance, colour, cyclone, ebullience, ebulliency, ecstasy, effusion, effusiveness, enthusiasm, exaltation, exuberance, exuberancy, fervor, fervour, frenzy, vehemence, vibrancy), kanatlanıp uçmak, yüzü kızarmak (blush, change colour), uçmak (barrel, belt, evaporate, fade, fly, freak out, plane, sail, scorch, soar, take wing, wing), taşkınlık (abundance, boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effusion, excess, extravagance, exuberance, exuberancy, frenzy, furor, furore, gush, intemperance, overflowing, rampancy, transport), su fışkırması, sifonu çekmek, sifon (crane, flusher, siphon, syphon), gömme (built in, burial, burying, committal service, entombment, inhumation, inlaid, interment, let in, sepulture, sunk, sunken), paralı (coin-op, coin-operated, heeled, loaded, mercenary, moneyed, paid, paying, rich, wealthy, well heeled), hararet (caloric, fervor, fervour, fever, feverishness, heat, intenseness, swelter, temperature, thirst, warmth), kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), kızarma (blushing, glow, suffusion, turning red), kırmızılık (redness, ruddiness), heyecanlanmak (be excited, be hyped up, fluster, get excited, hot up, loose countenance, stir, take on, thrill, work oneself up), heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, exalt, excite, ferment, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up, work up), yüzü kızartmak, renk (color, coloring, colour, colouring, complexion, dye, hue, tincture, tint). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рум'янець (bloom, color, colour, glow, ruddiness), раптовий приплив, щедрий (boon, bounteous, charitable, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, handsome, munificent, open, open handed, prodigal, profuse, ungrudging, wanton), точно (accurately, cold, dead, definitely, due, exactly, explicitly, fair, faithfully, just, microscopically, minutely, precisely, prompt, punctually, sharp, to a turn, true, truly), затопляти (flood, waterlog), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), збудження (agitation, animation, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, excitation, excitement, exciting, intoxication, kindling, stimulation, taking, twitter, vivacity, wallop), прямо (above board, avowedly, baldly, bang, barely, broadly, clean, direct, directly, forthright, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, roundly, straight, through, upright), приступ (access, accession, attack, shoot, spasm), почервоніти (flame up, redden, ruddy, turn red), повнокровний (full-blooded, plethoric, red blooded, sanguineous), повний (absolute, all out, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thừa thắng, sức phát triển mạnh mẽ trên đ thắng lợi, sự phong phú sự xúc động d o dạt, sự chảy xiết, sự ửng h"ng sự tr n đầy, ngang bằng tr n đầy, chứa chan, cơn sốt tính chất xanh tươi, bằng phẳng (flat), đầy dẫy; nhiều tiền lắm của tr n ngập. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwrido (blush), gwrid (bloom, blush). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Flush

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

fluxus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

flux. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Flush

Derivations

Words beginning with "flush": flushable, flushed, flusher, flushers, flushes, flushest, flushing, flushness, flushnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Flush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aflush, Alush, Falush, Falusi, flesch, flih, flish, floch, flsuh, flugh, flus, flusa, Flusse, frush, fuh, fuhs, fulsy, fush, fusha. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Flush"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "flush" (pronounced flu"sh)
3-l u" shblush, lush, plush, slush.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Flush

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-l-s-u"

-1 letter: flus, lush, shul.

-2 letters: flu.

-3 letters: sh, uh, us.

 Words containing the letters "f-h-l-s-u"
 

+2 letters: bashful, dishful, flushed, flusher, flushes, fulhams, hatfuls, hatsful, hushful, pushful, shuffle, wishful.

 

+3 letters: bluefish, blushful, chestful, dishfuls, flashg