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FLUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flush mean?
• FLUSH (noun)
The noun FLUSH has 7 senses:
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
6. a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
7. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Familiarity information: FLUSH used as a noun is common.
• FLUSH (adjective)
The adjective FLUSH has 2 senses:
1. of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
2. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
Familiarity information: FLUSH used as an adjective is rare.
• FLUSH (verb)
The verb FLUSH has 7 senses:
1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
3. glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
5. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
6. irrigate with water from a sluice
7. cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
Familiarity information: FLUSH used as a verb is common.
• FLUSH (adverb)
The adverb FLUSH has 2 senses:
Familiarity information: FLUSH used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flower; flush; heyday; peak; prime
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flush"):
golden age (a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak)
Derivation:
flush (having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)
Derivation:
flush (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
flush; hot flash
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
poker hand (the 5 cards held in a game of poker)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The swift release of a store of affective force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
bang; boot; charge; flush; kick; rush; thrill
Context example:
he does it for kicks
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
excitement; exhilaration (the feeling of lively and cheerful joy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A sudden rapid flow (as of water)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
flush; gush; outpouring
Context example:
she attacked him with an outpouring of words
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
flow; flowing (the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flush"):
springtide (a swelling rush of anything)
Derivation:
flush (cause to flow or flood with or as if with water)
flush (flow freely)
flush (irrigate with water from a sluice)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
blush; flush
Hypernyms ("flush" is a kind of...):
inborn reflex; innate reflex; instinctive reflex; physiological reaction; reflex; reflex action; reflex response; unconditioned reflex (an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus)
Derivation:
flush (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
Context example:
the bottom of the window is flush with the floor
Similar:
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
Synonyms:
affluent; flush; loaded; moneyed; substantial; wealthy
Context example:
a substantial family
Similar:
rich (possessing material wealth)
Derivation:
flush (the period of greatest prosperity or productivity)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: flushed
Past participle: flushed
-ing form: flushing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
Context example:
The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
flush (sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty))
flush (a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Flow freely
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The garbage flushed down the river
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flush"):
flush down; wash down (flow freely)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
flush (a sudden rapid flow (as of water))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
the sky flushed with rosy splendor
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
glow (emit a steady even light without flames)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Make level or straight
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
level the ground
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flush"):
grade (level to the right gradient)
strickle; strike (smooth with a strickle)
strickle (level off with a strickle in a measuring container)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
purge the old gas tank
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
rinse; rinse off (wash off soap or remaining dirt)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Irrigate with water from a sluice
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
flush; sluice
Context example:
sluice the earth
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
flush (a sudden rapid flow (as of water))
Sense 7
Meaning:
Cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
flush the meadows
Hypernyms (to "flush" is one way to...):
irrigate; water (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams)
Cause:
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flush"):
perfuse; suffuse (cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across)
perfuse (force a fluid through (a body part or tissue))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
flush (a sudden rapid flow (as of water))
Sense 1
Meaning:
Squarely or solidly
Context example:
hit him flush in the face
Sense 2
Meaning:
In the same plane
Context example:
set it flush with the top of the table
Context examples
Her violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her overpowering excitement and concern.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She shook her head, looking round at him with flushed cheeks and eyes that sparkled in the lamp-light.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Octreotide is used to treat diarrhea and flushing associated with certain types of tumors.
(Octreotide, NCI Dictionary)
The protrusion of the tissue is flush with the level of the skin surface.
(Cervical Myelocele, NCI Thesaurus)
Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with a fluid.
(Lavage, NCI Thesaurus)
They include skin flushing, diarrhea, wheezing, and tachycardia.
(Carcinoid syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The syndrome causes flushing of the face and upper chest, diarrhea, and trouble breathing.
(Carcinoid Tumors, NIH)
Martin's face, flushed at first, paled as he read on.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The use of free niacin is limited by its side effects of skin flushing (i.e., redness, itching, burning, and paresthesias).
(Niacin-based Antilipidemic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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