Flush

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Flush and flushing have several meanings:

Places

• Flush, Kansas, a community in the United States

Architecture, construction and manufacturing

• 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

Games and sport

• Flush (cards), a hand in card games
  • Flush (poker), a type of poker hand
• Flush (slalom skiing), a consecutive series of vertical gates

Literature

• 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

Biology, botany, and healthcare

• 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

Computing

• Allocate-on-flush, a computer file system
• Cache flush, when a CPU cache is emptied

Other uses

• First flush, the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm
• Flush text, in justification (typesetting)
• Flush toilet, a toilet using water to dispose of waste

See also

• All pages beginning with "Flush"
• All pages with a title containing Flush
• Flushing (disambiguation)
• Royal flush (disambiguation)