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Definition: Flush |
FlushAdjective1. 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". Adverb1. Squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face". 2. In the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table". Noun1. 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). Verb1. 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) |
| 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. |
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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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♣.
- A♥ Q♥ 10♥ 5♥ 3♥ ("ace-high flush") defeats K♠ Q♠ J♠ 9♠ 6♠ ("king-high flush")
- A♦ K♦ 7♦ 6♦ 2♦ ("flush, ace-king high") defeats A♥ Q♥ 10♥ 5♥ 3♥ ("flush, ace-queen high")
- Q♥ 10♥ 9♥ 5♥ 2♥ ("heart flush") ties Q♠ 10♠ 9♠ 5♠ 2♠ ("spade flush")
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.
Readers note: This section uses the letters c, d, h, and s to indicate card suits.
- See also : Poker
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.
- Ah Qh 10h 5h 3h ("ace-high flush") defeats Ks Qs Js 9s 6s ("king-high flush")
- Ad Kd 7d 6d 2d ("flush, ace-king high") defeats Ah Qh 10h 5h 3h ("flush, ace-queen high")
- Qh 10h 9h 5h 2h ("heart flush") ties Qs 10s 9s 5s 2s ("spade flush")
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)."
Synonyms: FlushSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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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) | |
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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. |
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| 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. | ||
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Prince Philip Edinburgh | The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. |
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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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 48.73% | 287 | 17,188 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 21.22% | 125 | 28,650 |
| Adverb (general) | 19.35% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.26% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.09% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 588 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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 |
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| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fluxus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | flux. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flush": flushable, flushed, flusher, flushers, flushes, flushest, flushing, flushness, flushnesses. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flush" (pronounced flu"sh) |
| 3 | -l u" sh | blush, lush, plush, slush. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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, flashgun, flourish, flushers, flushest, flushing, ghastful, handfuls, handsful, hasteful, hopefuls, housefly, houseful, lumpfish, lungfish, shameful, sheenful, shelfful, shuffled, shuffler, shuffles, slothful, unflashy. | |
+4 letters: bashfully, blueshift, cheekfuls, chestfuls, faithfuls, flashbulb, flashcube, flashguns, flashtube, flophouse, flushable, flushness, furloughs, housefuls, mouthfuls, reshuffle, shelffuls, shovelful, shufflers, shuffling, stenchful, thrustful, unselfish, wishfully. | |
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