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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 flush /ˈflʌʃ/
 流溢,面紅,旺盛,發燒,驚飛的鳥,一手同花的五張牌(a.)豐足的,齊平的

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 flush /ˈfləʃ/ 名詞
 沖洗,水淹,新條,萌蘗枝,潮紅

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 flush
 齊界; 清除

From: Network Terminology

 flush
 閃 沖

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 2. To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
    Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.   --Gay.
 Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
 Flushing his brow.   --Keats.
 3. To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
 How faintly flushed. how phantom fair,
 Was Monte Rosa, hanging there!   --Tennyson.
 4. To excite; to animate; to stir.
    Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition.   --South.
 5. To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
 6. To cause to 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.
 To flush a joints Masonry, to fill them in; to point the level; to make them flush.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flushed p. pr. & vb. n. Flushing.]
 1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
    The flushing noise of many waters.   --Boyle.
    It flushes violently out of the cock.   --Mortimer.
 2. To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
 3. To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
    In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.   --Milton.
 4. To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
    Flushing from one spray unto another.   --W. Browne.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush, v. i. Mining (a) 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. (b) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush, n.
 1. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
    In manner of a wave or flush.   --Ray.
 2. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
    The flush of angered shame.   --Tennyson.
 3. 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.
 4. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
 5. A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
 6.  A hand of cards, all of the same suit; -- especially significant in poker, where five cards of the same suit constitute a flush, which beats a straight but is beaten by a full house or four of a kind.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush, a.
 1. Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
    With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.   --Shak.
 2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
    Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.   --Arbuthnot.
 3. Arch. & Mech. Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
 4. Card Playing Consisting of cards of one suit.
 Flush bolt. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith.
 Flush deck. Naut. See under Deck, n., 1.
 Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Flush adv. So as to be level or even.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 flush
      adj 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" [syn: flush(p)]
      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" [syn: affluent, loaded, moneyed, wealthy]
      n 1: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower,
            prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence]
      2: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of
         good health [syn: bloom, blush, rosiness]
      3: sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause
         and some mental disorders) [syn: hot flash]
      4: a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
      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" [syn:
         bang, boot, charge, rush, thrill, kick]
      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" [syn: gush, outpouring]
      7: sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt
         or shame or modesty) [syn: blush]
      adv 1: squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"
      2: in the same plane; "set it flush with the top of the table"
      v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed
           when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush,
            crimson, redden]
      2: flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river"
      3: make level or straight; "level the ground" [syn: level, even
         out, even]
      4: polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my
         shoes" [syn: buff, burnish, furbish]
      5: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with
         antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: scour, purge]
      6: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn:
         sluice]
      7: cause to flow or flood with or as if with water; "flush the
         meadows"