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Flush has several meanings:
- Flush (physiology), to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions
- Flush (cards), a hand in card games
- Flush (poker), a hand in poker
- Flush, Kansas, a community in the United States
- Flush text, in justification (typesetting)
- Flush toilet, a toilet using water to dispose of waste
- Flush (slalom skiing), a consecutive series of vertical gates
- Flush deck, in naval architecture
- Flush rivet
- First flush, the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm
- Flush, a growth of leaves on the tea plant
- Harris flush, an enema type
- Saline flush
- Flushing (military tactic), a tactic used to force an opposing element out of cover and into the line of fire
- Flushing, a method used in hunting to scare animals out of concealed areas
Construction and manufacturing
- Flush cut, a type of cut made with a French flush-cut saw or diagonal pliers
- Flush door
- Flush hem (hemming and seaming), in metal forming
- Flush hole, a countersink
Books
- 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
Music
- "Flush" (Mötley Crüe song), 1997 song by Mötley Crüe
- "Flush" (Brian Head Welch song), a song by Brian Head Welch
Computing
- Cache flush, when a CPU cache is emptied
- Allocate-on-flush, a computer file system
See also
- All pages beginning with "Flush"
- All pages with titles containing Flush
- Flushing (disambiguation)
- Royal flush (disambiguation)
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