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Definition: FLUSHER |
FLUSHERNoun1. The red-backed shrike. See Flasher. 2. A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water. |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Controls equipment to displace water from damp pigments by introducing oil or other liquid into pigment: Shovels batch of damp pigment into tub and starts agitator. Turns valve to admit steam into jacket of tub to heat batch to specified temperature. Adds required quantity of liquid vehicle to displace water in pigment. Tilts tub to drain displaced water from top of batch. Clamps lid on tub and opens vacuum valve to draw remaining water from batch. Collects samples of batch for laboratory analysis. Adds type and quantities of oils and extenders specified by laboratory to bring body, strength, and shade of batch within acceptable limits. Mixes batch for specified time. Drains batch into containers and clamps on lid. (references) |
| Washes and removes starch deposits from starch tables by flushing table with stream of water: Directs water hose over starch table to wash film of gluten from starch deposits. Plugs line to gluten tank at end of table and raises tailboard to allow starch deposit to flow to flushing tank. Turns valve to admit strong stream of water into starch table that loosens and flushes starch deposits into flushing tank. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Liar; (lie; ); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FLUSHER |
| Specialty definitions using "FLUSHER": SEWER-LINE REPAIRER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Floor Flusher (1954) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | If dreams came true. Say!! Yah big stiff! Yah big four flusher! Yah big hunk of ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "FLUSHER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLUSHER" is used about 3 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FLUSHER": four flusher. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FLUSHER": four-flusher. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gutter flusher | 18 |
fat flusher | 9 |
diet fat flusher | 5 |
motor flusher | 3 |
transmission flusher | 3 |
automatic flusher | 2 |
toilet flusher | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLUSHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 冲洗器. (various references) | |
Dutch | hogedrukspoeler (high-pressure flusher), gecombineerde hoge-drukspoelings-en opzuigwagen (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle), gecombineerd hogedrukspoelings-en zuigvoertuig (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle). (various references) | |
French | véhicule de rinçage à haute pression (high-pressure flusher), véhicule combiné pour le rinçage à haute pression et la vidange par aspiration (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle). (various references) | |
German | kombiniertes Hochdruckspül-und Saugfahrzeug (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle), Hochdruckspülfahrzeug (high-pressure flusher). (various references) | |
Greek | όχημα για έκπλυση υπό υψηλή πίεση και για αναρρόφηση (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle), όχημα για έκπλυση υπό υψηλή πίεση (high-pressure flusher). (various references) | |
Italian | veicolo combinato di spurgo (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle), spurgatubi ad alta pressione (high-pressure flusher). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | usherflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | veículo com lavagem e sucção a alta pressão (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle), lavador a alta pressão (high-pressure flusher). (various references) | |
Spanish | vehículo baldeador y aspirador de alta presión (combined high pressure flusher and suction vehicle), baldeadora de alta presión (high-pressure flusher). (various references) | |
Turkish | sifon (crane, flush, siphon, syphon), lağımcı, lağım temizleme düzeni. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLUSHER": flushers. (additional references) | |
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"FLUSHER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Feldsher, fleischer, Flushear, Flusser, fluther, Foukhar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-l-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lusher. | |
-2 letters: flesh, flues, flush, fresh, fuels, furls, fusel, herls, hurls, lehrs, lures, rules, shelf, usher. | |
-3 letters: fehs, feus, flue, flus, fuel, furl, furs, fuse, herl, hers, hues, hurl, lehr, lues, lure, lush, refs, resh, rhus, rues, rule, ruse, rush, self, serf, shul, slue, slur, suer, sure, surf, user. | |
-4 letters: efs, elf, els, ers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-h-l-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: flushers, shuffler. | |
+2 letters: reshuffle, shufflers. | |
+3 letters: flourished, flourisher, flourishes, reshuffled, reshuffles. | |
+4 letters: flourishers, flugelhorns, harmfulness, hurtfulness, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, reshuffling, ruthfulness, ultrafiches. | |
+5 letters: bullfighters, cheerfullest, cheerfulness, fluegelhorns, foresightful, mirthfulness, rightfulness, shuffleboard, sprachgefuhl, truthfulness, wrathfulness. | |
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