flush
1flush — [ flɶʃ; flɔʃ ] n. m. • 1896; mot angl.; o. i., p. ê. de flux, employé dans ce sens ♦ Anglic. Au poker, Réunion de cinq cartes de la même couleur. Des flushs ou des flushes. Quinte flush : quinte dans la même couleur. ⊗ HOM. Floche. ● flush,… …
2flush — [flʌʆ] adjective 1. be flush (with cash/funds) informal to have a lot of money at a particular time: • Singapore s savings rate is so high that the banks are flush with funds. • The group is flush and has been making more acquisitions. 2. be… …
3Flush — has several meanings:* Flush (cards), a hand in card games ** Flush (poker), a hand in poker * Flush toilet, a toilet using water to dispose of waste * Flush (novel), a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen * , an imaginative biography of Elizabeth… …
4Flush — Flush, a. 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. [1913 Webster] With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. [1913 Webster] Lord Strut was… …
5Flush — Flush, v. t. 1. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the …
6Flush — Flush, n. 1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. [1913 Webster] In manner of a wave or flush. Ray. [1913 Webster] 2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity …
7flush — flush1 [flush] vi. [complex of several words, with senses FLASH & ME flusshen, to fly up suddenly, blended with echoic elements; “flow” senses < ? or akin to OFr fluir (stem fluiss ), to flow] 1. to flow and spread suddenly and rapidly 2. to… …
8Flush — (engl. flush für Rausch, Schwall, Spülung) steht für: bei der Teeernte die Ernte im Frühling (first flush) oder im Frühsommer (second flush), siehe Tee eine Kartenhand beim Pokerspiel, siehe Hand (Poker) eine Rötung der Haut oder die… …
9flush — Ⅰ. flush [1] ► VERB 1) (of a person s skin or face) become red and hot, typically through illness or emotion. 2) glow or cause to glow with warm colour or light. 3) (be flushed with) be excited or elated by. 4) cleanse (something, especially a… …
10Flush — 〈[flʌ̣ʃ] m. 6; Med.〉 Hitzewallung mit Hautrötung [zu engl. flush „erröten“] * * * Flush [flʌʃ; englisch »Erröten«, »Aufwallung«] der, auch das, s/ s, starke Hautrötung mit Hitzegefühl im Bereich von Gesicht, Brust und Oberarmen, z. B. bei… …
