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"
Source: WordNet® 2.0

flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to
   abort an operation. "All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [Unix/C] To
   force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call. This is _not_
   an abort or deletion as in sense 1, but a demand for early completion!
   3. To leave at the end of a day's work (as opposed to leaving for a
   meal). "I'm going to flush now." "Time to flush." 4. To exclude someone
   from an activity, or to ignore a person.

   `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. The
   Unix/C usage, on the other hand, was propagated by the `fflush(3)' call
   in C's standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use
   among BLISS programmers at {DEC} and on Honeywell and IBM machines as
   far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers found the ITS usage confusing, and
   vice versa.


Source: The Jargon File