Flush
Appearance
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Flush may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Flush, Kansas, a community in the United States
Architecture, construction and manufacturing
[edit]- Flush cut, a type of cut made with a French flush-cut saw or diagonal pliers
- Flush deck, in naval architecture
- Flush door
- Flush hem (hemming and seaming), in metal forming
- Flush hole, a countersink
- Flush rivet, countersunk rivets
Art, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Flush (cards), a hand in card games
- Flush (poker), a type of poker hand
- See also: Royal flush
- Flush (slalom skiing), a consecutive series of vertical gates
- Flush (novel), a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen
- Flush: A Biography, an imaginative fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog, by Virginia Woolf
- "Flush" (Mötley Crüe song), 1997
- "Flush" (Brian Welch song), 2008
- Flush (film), a 1977 American comedy film
Biology, botany, and healthcare
[edit]- Flush (physiology), to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions
- Flush, a growth of leaves on the tea plant
- Harris flush, an enema type
- Saline flush
- Seep (hydrology), a seepage or flush of water from low-lying ground
Computing
[edit]- Allocate-on-flush, a computer file system
- Cache flush, when a CPU cache is emptied
Other uses
[edit]- First flush, the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm
- Flush text, in justification
- Flush toilet, a toilet using water to dispose of waste, the operation of which is called a "flush"