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What (who) is flush - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Flush (disambiguation); Flush (song)
flush
<data> To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort
an operation.
"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.
Compare drain.
2. To force temporarily buffered data to be written to more
permanent memory. E.g. flushing buffered disk writes to disk,
as with C's standard I/O library "fflush(3)" call. This
sense was in use among BLISS programmers at DEC and on
Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965. Another
example of this usage is flushing a cache on a {context
switch} where modified data stored in the cace which belongs
to one processes must be written out to main memory so that
the cache can be used by another process.
[Jargon File ]
(2005-07-18)
Flush
·adv So as to be level or even.
II. Flush ·adj Consisting of cards of one suit.
III. Flush ·noun A hand of cards of the same suit.
IV. Flush ·adj Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
V. Flush ·vt To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
VI. Flush ·vi To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
VII. Flush ·noun A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
VIII. Flush ·vi To snow red; to shine suddenly; to Glow.
IX. Flush ·adj Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
X. Flush ·vt To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
XI. Flush ·noun A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
XII. Flush ·vi To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to Blush.
XIII. Flush ·vi To flow and spread suddenly; to Rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
XIV. Flush ·noun A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, ·etc.; as, a flush of joy.
XVI. Flush ·vt To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
XVII. Flush ·noun A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
XVIII. Flush ·adj Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
XIX. Flush ·add. ·vt To cause by flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, ·etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.
XX. Flush ·add. ·vi To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
XXI. Flush ·noun Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
XXII. Flush ·add. ·vi 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.
flush
flush1
¦ verb
1. (of a person's skin or face) become red and hot, typically through illness or emotion.
glow or cause to glow with warm colour or light.
(be flushed with) be excited or elated by.
2. cleanse (something, especially a toilet) by passing large quantities of water through it.
remove or dispose of in such a way.
3. drive (a bird or animal, especially a game bird) from cover.
4. (of a plant) send out fresh shoots.
¦ noun
1. a reddening of the face or skin.
an area of warm colour or light.
2. a sudden rush of intense emotion.
a period of freshness and vigour: the first flush of youth.
3. an act of flushing.
4. a fresh growth of leaves, flowers, or fruit.
Derivatives
flusher noun
Origin
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flush2
¦ adjective
1. completely level or even with another surface.
2. informal having plenty of money.
¦ verb fill in (a joint) level with a surface.
Derivatives
flushness noun
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'perfect, lacking nothing'): prob. related to flush1.
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flush3
¦ noun (in poker or brag) a hand of cards all of the same suit.
Origin
C16: from Fr. flux (formerly flus), from L. fluxus (see flux).
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flush4
¦ noun Ecology a piece of wet ground over which water flows without being confined to a definite channel.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'marshy place'): var. of flash2.
Examples of use of flush
1. Research shows that in Peru, a flush toilet reduces the risk of infant death by 5' percent compared to an infant in a household without a flush toilet.
2. The hilly terrain would also help flush water away quickly.
3. Sure enough, they failed to flush out the attackers.
4. Where can a relationship go after the initial flush?
5. "Some of them are nursing pretty big losses." Busted flush?