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flush [a]

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"

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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"

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affluent loaded moneyed wealthy

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rich

flush [r]

1)	squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"

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2)	in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"

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flush [n]

1)	the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

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bloom blossom efflorescence flower heyday peak prime

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period blossom golden_age

2)	a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

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bloom blush rosiness

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good_health blush

3)	sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)

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hot_flash

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symptom

4)	a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit

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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"

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bang boot charge kick rush thrill

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excitement beatify thrill thrill agitate

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"

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gush outpouring

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flow gush springtide

7)	sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)

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blush

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inborn_reflex blush

flush [v]

1)	turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"

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blush crimson redden

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color bloom blush crimson amanita_rubescens blusher

2)	flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"

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course flush_down

3)	make level or straight; "level the ground"

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even even_out level

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change_surface level leveler grade strickle

4)	polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

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buff burnish furbish

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polish burnish buff buffer

5)	rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

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purge scour

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rinse purge scour

6)	irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

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sluice

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douse penstock

7)	cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the meadows"

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course irrigate perfuse perfuse

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. 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.

2. To force temporarily buffered data to be written to more permanent memory. E.g. flushing buffered disk I/O 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.

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