Flush
(v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly |
Flush
(v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks |
Flush
(v. i.) To snow red |
Flush
(v. i.) To start up suddenly |
Flush
(v. t.) To cause to be full |
Flush
(v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face) |
Flush
(v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. |
Flush
(v. t.) To excite |
Flush
(v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird. |
Flush
(n.) A sudden flowing |
Flush
(n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind |
Flush
(n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood |
Flush
(n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling |
Flush
(n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed. |
Flush
(n.) A hand of cards of the same suit. |
Flush
(a.) Full of vigor |
Flush
(a.) Affluent |
Flush
(a.) Unbroken or even in surface |
Flush
(a.) Consisting of cards of one suit. |
Flush
(adv.) So as to be level or even. |
Mounted
(imp. & p. p.) of Mount |
Mounted
(a.) Seated or serving on horseback or similarly |
Mounted
(a.) Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting |
Sea wall
() A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Wall
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall
(n.) A defense |
Wall
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall
(n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
Wall-eye
(n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color |
Wall-eye
(n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes |
Wall-eye
(n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). |
Wall-eye
(n.) The alewife |
Wall-eyed
(a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
Wall-plat
(n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. |
Wall-sided
(a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular |
blush
flush | sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) |
bluff
four flush | the act of bluffing in poker, deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards |
blue wall of silence
blue wall
wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper
tichodrome
Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
| Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
| bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket
wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
| cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
flush toilet
lavatory | a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it |
gable
gable end
gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
hanging
wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
proscenium
proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart
bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
| retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
| wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |
| wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
| wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard
drywall
dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
| wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
| wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
| wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket
wall plug
electric outlet
electrical outlet
outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
| wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
| wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
wall
paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
| abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
flush
gush
outpouring | 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 |
bang
boot
charge
rush
flush
thrill
kick | 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 |
| royal flush | a poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, andall in the same suit |
| straight flush | a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit |
| flush | a poker hand with all cards in the same suit |
Wall Street
the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |
| hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
| Wailing Wall | a wall in Jerusalem, sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation, its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon |
| Hadrian's Wall | an ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the nd century, marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain |
Wall Street
Wall St. | a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located, symbol of American finance |
| hanging wall | the upper wall of an inclined fault |
| wall | anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect, a wall of water, a wall of smoke, a wall of prejudice, negotiations ran into a brick wall |
| wall | a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) |
| wall rock | a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault |
wallpaperer
wall-paperer | a worker who papers walls |
| cell wall | a rigid layer of polysaccharides enclosing the membrane of plant and prokaryotic cells, maintains the shape of the cell and serves as a protective barrier |
wall rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
Diplotaxis tenuifolia | yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places, an adventive weed in North America |
Siberian wall flower
Erysimum allionii
Cheiranthus allionii | showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus |