flushing

n. rinsing, washing; blushing, reddening

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)

Flushing has multiple meanings:Flushing (physiology), the warm, red condition of human skinFlush toiletFlushing (military tactic), related to skirmishingFlushing (computing), the action when a cache is emptiedPlacesFlushing, Netherlands, a city in Zeeland (Dutch: Vlissingen) (city rights since 1315)after which were named:Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom (renamed from original Nankersey in the 17th century)Flushing, Queens, New York (1645)Flushing Bay, New York, a semienclosed body of water (a bay) located off the north shore of Long Island.Flushing Meadows, Park in NYCFlushing, Ohio, a village in Belmont County (1813, perhaps after Flushing, Queens)Flushing, Michigan, a city in Genesee County (named after Flushing, Queens in the 1830s)
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Flushing a sudden increase in flow. flushing agents water under pressure, sterile saline and Ringer's solution are used to irrigate and cleanse [more]Flushing - Community and Resources

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"

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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