{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "fləʃ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/flush.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/flush.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/flush.wav" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English flusshen, fluschen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle English flasshen, flasschen, flaschen, see flash; or a Middle English blend of flowen (“to flow”) +‎ guschen (“to gush”). Compare with German flutschen.", "Same as Etymology 3, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.", "Probably from Etymology 1 according to the American Heritage Dictionary.", "Probably from Middle French flus (“flow”), cognate with flux." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke ." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.\nThe dogs flushed the deer from the woods.\nSynonyms: flush out, scare up" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.\nA covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.\nSand down the excess until it is flush with the surface." }, { "mean": "Wealthy or well off.\nHe just got a bonus so he's flush today." }, { "mean": "(typography) Short for flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.\nSynonyms: forced, forced justified, force justified, justified" }, { "mean": "Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright." }, { "mean": "Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Suddenly and completely.\nI landed flush on the couch." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes." }, { "mean": "Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet." }, { "mean": "(computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache." }, { "mean": "A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow." }, { "mean": "Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.\nthe flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset" }, { "mean": "A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.\na flush of joy" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.\nFlush the injury with plenty of water." }, { "mean": "(transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.\n\nThe damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to blush." }, { "mean": "To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.\nto flush the meadows" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To excite, inflame." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.\nThere must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing." }, { "mean": "(transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents." }, { "mean": "(transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.\nflush to disk" }, { "mean": "To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.\nBlood flushes into the face." }, { "mean": "To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow." }, { "mean": "(masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush." }, { "mean": "(mining, intransitive) 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." }, { "mean": "(mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhigh card\n\npair\n\ntwo pair\n\nthree of a kind\n\nstraight\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nflush\n\nfull house\n\nfour of a kind\n\nstraight flush\n\nroyal flush" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(turn red with embarrassment): blush" ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }