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Flush may refer to:


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, a flush deck is a Deck (ship), ship deck that is continuous from stem to stern. History Flush decks have been in use since the times of the ancient Egyptians. Greco-Roman Trireme often had a flush deck but may have also ha ...
, in naval architecture * Flush door * Flush hem ( hemming and seaming), in metal forming * Flush hole, a
countersink In manufacturing, a countersink (Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols, symbol: Miscellaneous Technical#Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF) in Unicode, ⌵) is a Cone (geometry), conical hole cut into a manufactured object, or the Cutt ...
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Flush rivet A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed, a rivet consists of a smooth cylinder (geometry), cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head is called the ''tail''. On installation, the deformed e ...
, countersunk rivets


Art, entertainment, and media

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Flush (cards) A flush is a hand of playing cards where all cards are of the same suit (cards), suit.Parlett (1991), p. 324. There are different types of flush, including straight, where the flush is formed from a run (cards), run of cards in unbroken sequence o ...
, a hand in card games ** Flush (poker), a type of poker hand **See also: Royal flush * Flush (
slalom skiing Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super-G, super giant slalom and Downhill (ski competition), downhill, necessitating ...
), 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

* 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

* 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 * Flush toilet, a toilet using water to dispose of waste, the operation of which is called a "flush"


See also

* * * Flushed (disambiguation) * Flushing (disambiguation) * Royal flush (disambiguation) {{disambiguation