flush – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: period of time,
symptom,
excitement,
inborn reflex,
instinctive reflex,
discolour,
color,
course,
smoothen,
rinse,
souse,
drench,
irrigate
flush
v.
blush, redden; rinse with water; empty the toilet of water and waste material; release a flow; excite, animate; cause to fly up suddenly (birds); make even or level; empty a portion of the memory (Computers)
n.
redness, blush; flood, sudden flow of water; new growth; new increase; hand of playing cards; freshness, vigor, energy; hot flash
adj.
flushed, ruddy; full, overflowing; well-supplied, abundant; level, even; having all the playing cards of one suit
Flush
Flush has several meanings:
- Flush (physiology), to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions
- Flush (cards), a hand in card games
- Flush, Kansas, a community in the United States
- Flush text, in justification (typesetting)
- Flush toilet, a toilet using water to dispose of waste
- Flush (slalom skiing), a consecutive series of vertical gates
- Flush deck, in naval architecture
- Flush rivet
- First flush, the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm
- Flush, a growth of leaves on the tea plant
- Harris flush, an enema type
- Saline flush
- Flushing (military tactic), a tactic used to force an opposing element out of cover and into the line of fire
- Flushing, a method used in hunting to scare animals out of concealed areas
flush
Noun
1. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
(synonym) flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(hyponym) golden age
2. a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
(synonym) bloom, blush, rosiness
(hypernym) good health, healthiness
(derivation) blush, crimson, redden
3. sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
(synonym) hot flash
(hypernym) symptom
4. a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
(hypernym) poker hand
5. the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
(synonym) bang, boot, charge, rush, thrill, kick
(hypernym) exhilaration, excitement
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"
(synonym) gush, outpouring
(hypernym) flow, flowing
(hyponym) springtide
7. sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
(synonym) blush
(hypernym) reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
(derivation) blush, crimson, redden
Verb
1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
(synonym) blush, crimson, redden
(hypernym) discolor, discolour, colour, color
(derivation) bloom, blush, rosiness
2. flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
(hypernym) run, flow, feed, course
(hyponym) wash down, flush down
(derivation) gush, outpouring
3. make level or straight; "level the ground"
(synonym) level, even out, even
(hypernym) change surface
(hyponym) grade
4. polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"
(synonym) buff, burnish, furbish
(hypernym) polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
5. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
(synonym) scour, purge
(hypernym) rinse, rinse off
6. irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
(synonym) sluice
(hypernym) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
(derivation) gush, outpouring
7. cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"
(hypernym) water, irrigate
(hyponym) suffuse, perfuse
(cause) run, flow, feed, course
(derivation) gush, outpouring
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"
(synonym) flush(p)
(similar) even
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"
(synonym) affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy
(similar) rich
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"
Flush (der)
nm.
flush, blush, redness
flush
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