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flush
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English flusshen, fluschen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle English flasshen, flasschen, flaschen, see flash; or a Middle English blend of flowen (“to flow”) +? guschen (“to gush”). Compare with German flutschen.
Noun
flush (plural flushes)
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:
- As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:
Verb
flush (third-person singular simple present flushes, present participle flushing, simple past and past participle flushed)
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.
- 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals
- flushing from one spray unto another
- 1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense, Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1973 (page 460)
- AWACS is survivable due to its ability to flush on warning, to maneuver at jet speeds, to maintain awareness of the developing air situation and to command weapons as appropriate, including weapons for its own defense.
Translations
Etymology 2
Same as Etymology 3, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
Adjective
flush (comparative flusher, superlative flushest)
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.
- Wealthy or well off.
- He just got a bonus so he's flush today.
- (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
Synonyms
- (typography): double-clean, flush left and right, forced, forced justified, force justified, justified
Derived terms
- flush left, flush right, flush left and right
Translations
Etymology 3
Probably from Etymology 1 according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
Noun
flush (plural flushes)
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- in manner of a wave or flush
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Madeline
- the flush of anger'd shame
- 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Madeline
- Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- a flush of joy
Translations
Verb
flush (third-person singular simple present flushes, present participle flushing, simple past and past participle flushed)
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- Flush the injury with plenty of water.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- 1872, The Argosy. Edited by Mrs. Henry Wood. Volume XIV. July to December, 1872, London, p. 60 (Google)
- She turned, laughing at the surprise, and flushing with pleasure.
- The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.
- 1872, The Argosy. Edited by Mrs. Henry Wood. Volume XIV. July to December, 1872, London, p. 60 (Google)
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
- 1925, Fruit of the Flower, by Countee Cullen
- "Who plants a seed begets a bud, -- Extract of that same root; -- Why marvel at the hectic blood -- That flushes this wild fruit?"
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- to flush the meadows
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- , "Against Long Extemporary Prayers"
- such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition
- , "Against Long Extemporary Prayers"
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- Blood flushes into the face.
- '1545;, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches
- the flushing noise of many waters
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- (mining, intransitive) 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.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet
Usage notes
In sense “turn red with embarrassment”, blush is more common. More finely, in indicating the actual change, blush is usual – “He blushed with embarrassment” – but in indicating state, flushed is also common – “He was flushed with excitement”.
Synonyms
- (turn red with embarrassment): blush
Translations
Etymology 4
Probably from Middle French flus (“flow”), cognate with flux.
Noun
flush (plural flushes)
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: flush
- ? Portuguese: flush
Translations
See also
French
Etymology
From English flush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flœ?/
Noun
flush m (plural flushs)
- (poker) flush
- (anglicism) flush (reddening of the face)
- (anglicism, IT) emptying of the cache
Synonyms
- (poker): couleur
Derived terms
- flusher
Portuguese
Etymology
From English flush.
Noun
flush m (plural flushes)
- (poker) flush (hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)
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flash
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?sh, IPA(key): /flæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
Verb
flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and often unintentionally, expose one's naked body or underwear, or part of it, in public. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons or as an act of contempt.
- (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To communicate quickly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
- (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book II, canto VI, stanza XLII; republished as The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-two Copper-Plates, from the Original Drawings of the late W. Kent, Esq.; Architect and Principal Painter to His Majesty, volume I, London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751, OCLC 642577152, page 316:
- The varlet ?aw, when to the flood he came, / How without ?top or ?tay he fiercely lept, / And deep him?elfe beducked in the ?ame, / That in the lake his loftie cre?t was ?teept, / Ne of his ?afetie ?eemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely fla?hd / The waves about, and all his armour ?wept, / That all the bloud and filth away was wa?ht, / Yet ?till he bet the water, and the billows da?ht.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book II, canto VI, stanza XLII; republished as The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-two Copper-Plates, from the Original Drawings of the late W. Kent, Esq.; Architect and Principal Painter to His Majesty, volume I, London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751, OCLC 642577152, page 316:
Synonyms
- (to briefly illuminate): glint
- (telephoning): beep
Derived terms
Related terms
- flush (possibly)
Translations
See also
- gleam
- (to expose one's naked body or underwear): wardrobe malfunction
Noun
flash (plural flashes)
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- A very short amount of time.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, OCLC 747046957; republished London: Penguin Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-241-95628-1, page 34:
- I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, OCLC 747046957; republished London: Penguin Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-241-95628-1, page 34:
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A tattoo flash.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- 1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Proper and Improper Use of Drugs by Athletes: Hearings (page 645)
- A few seconds following the injection, the user experiences a sudden, intense generalized sensation which has both physiological and psychological characteristics. […] pure, commercially produced products do not give a good flash […]
- 1976, Robert H. Coombs, Lincoln J. Fry, Patricia G. Lewis, Socialization in Drug Abuse (page 123)
- The flash — the odd combination of a cocoon-comfort and an inexplicable physical ascendency to a "high" — provides the major incentive for the new experimenter to move to the next phase of his career.
- 1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Proper and Improper Use of Drugs by Athletes: Hearings (page 645)
- (dated) A newsflash.
- 1931, George Seldes, Can These Things Be! (volume 25, page 274)
- The United Press got the flash "Germans declare martial law in Ruhr" […]
- 1931, George Seldes, Can These Things Be! (volume 25, page 274)
Synonyms
- (burst of light): gleam, glint
- (material left around the edge of a mould): moulding flash, molding flash
Antonyms
- (very short amount of time): aeon
Hypernyms
- (burst of light): light
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- glimmer
- shimmer
- sparkle
- twinkle
Adjective
flash (comparative more flash, superlative most flash)
- (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
- The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are,
- He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
- 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark
- (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
- (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- (slang, obsolete) Relating to thieves and vagabonds.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “flash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- For the sense ‘a short period of time’, the 1858 Notes and Queries of Martim de Albuquerque was consulted. From page 437 of the sixth volume of the second series, published in London by Bell & Dally, 186 Fleet Street, in 1858 :
- Ought we not to collect for posterity the various ways in which very short times are denoted. Besides the one at the head, there are, — in no time, in next to no time, in less than no time, in a trice, in a jiffy, in a brace of shakes, before you can say Jack Robinson, in a crack, in the squeezing of a lemon, in the doubling of your fist, in the twinkling of an eye, in a moment, in an instant, in a flash.
Etymology 2
From Middle English flasche, flaske; compare Old French flache, French flaque, which is of Germanic origin, akin to Middle Dutch vlacke (“an estuary, flats with stagnant pools”).
Noun
flash (plural flashes)
- A pool.
- a. 1646, Jeremiah Burroughs, The Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times
- their hearts lie lumpish as a Log that lies in a flash of water seven years together
- a. 1646, Jeremiah Burroughs, The Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
Derived terms
- flash wheel
Further reading
- flash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- halfs
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English flash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla?/
Noun
flash m (plural flashs)
- flash (burst of light)
- (photography) flash
- newsflash
- (juggling) flash
Derived terms
- flasher
Further reading
- “flash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English flash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fla?/, [?fla?]
Noun
flash m (plural flashes)
- (photography) flash
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