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What is the difference between flush and colour?

flush | colour |

As verbs the difference between flush and colour

is that flush is to cause to take flight from concealment or flush can be to cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid while colour is to give something colour.

As adjectives the difference between flush and colour

is that flush is smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out while colour is conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.

As nouns the difference between flush and colour

is that flush is a group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc while colour is (uncountable) the spectral composition of visible light.

flush

English

(wikipedia flush)

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(es)
  • A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.2:
    • As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cause to take flight from concealment.
    • The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.
  • To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
    • A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.
  • * W. Browne
    • flushing from one spray unto another

    Etymology 2

    Same as according to the American Heritage Dictionary

    Adjective

    (er)
  • smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
    • Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.
  • wealthy or well off.
    • He just got a bonus so he's flush today.
  • (typography) Short for flush left and right ; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
  • Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
  • * Shakespeare
    • With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.
  • Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.
    Synonyms
    * (typography) double-clean, flush left and right, forced, forced justified, force justified, justified
    Derived terms
    * flush left, flush right, flush left and right

    Etymology 3

    Probably from according to American Heritage Dictionary

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
  • * Ray
    • in manner of a wave or flush
  • Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
  • A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
  • * Tennyson
    • the flush of angered shame
  • Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
    • the flush''' on the side of a peach; the '''flush on the clouds at sunset
  • A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
    • a flush of joy

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
    • Flush the injury with plenty of water.
  • Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
  • To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
    • The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.
  • To cause to blush.
  • * John Gay
    • Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
  • * Keats
    • Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow.
  • * 1925 , Fruit of the Flower , by
    • "Who plants a seed begets a bud, -- Extract of that same root; -- Why marvel at the hectic blood -- That flushes this wild fruit?"
  • To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
    • to flush the meadows
  • To excite, inflame.
  • * South
    • such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition
  • (of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
    • There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing .
  • (computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
  • To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
    • Blood flushes into the face.
  • * Boyle
    • the flushing noise of many waters
  • To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
  • * Milton
    • In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.
  • (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
    • Usage notes
    In sense “turn red with embarrassment”, (blush) is more common. More finely, in indicating the actual change, blush'' is more common – “He blushed with embarrassment” – but in indicating state, ''flushed is also common – “He was flushed with excitement”.
    Synonyms
    * (turn red with embarrassment) blush

    Etymology 4

    Probably from (etyl) , cognate with flux

    Noun

    (es)
  • (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
    • Derived terms
    * busted flush * royal flush * straight flush

    colour

    English

    (Color) {{ picdic , image=Color circle (hue-sat).png , width=310 , labels= , detail1=Click on labels in the image }} Alternative forms * color (US) (see the below)

    Noun

  • (lb) The spectral composition of visible light.
  • :
  • (lb) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • (lb) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
  • :
  • (lb) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • :
  • (lb) Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour ) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
  • (lb) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
  • (lb) A standard or banner.
  • :
  • The system of colour television.
  • :
  • (lb) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • :
  • In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
  • :
  • (lb) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
  • (lb) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  • (lb) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
  • A front or : an ostensible truth actually false.
  • An appearance of right or authority.
  • :
  • (lb) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

    • Usage notes

    The late (etyl) colour'', which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by (1828), along with favor, honor, etc., and is currently the standard US spelling. In Canada, colour'' is preferred, but ''color'' is not unknown; in Australia, ''-our'' endings are the standard, although ''-or'' endings had some currency in the past and are still sporadically found in some regions. In New Zealand, ''-our endings are the standard.

    Synonyms

    * (spectral composition of visible light) blee * (particular set named as a class) blee, hue * hue, shade, blee * (human skin tone as an indicator of race or ethnicity) colour of one’s skin, complexion, blee, ethnicity, race * interest * (dark tincture) stain * (standard or banner) banner, standard * (colour television) colour television

    Derived terms

    * colour-blind * colour charge * colour code * colour commentator * coloured * colourful * colour of fire * flame-colour * colourimeter * colourise * colourism * colourless * colours * discoloration * in colour * off-colour * prismatic colours * true colours

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
    • Colour television and films were considered a great improvement over black and white.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give something colour.
    • We could colour the walls red.
  • To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons.
    • My kindergartener loves to colour .
  • (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
    • ''Her face coloured as she realised her mistake.
  • To affect without completely changing.
    • That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book.
  • (informal) To attribute a quality to.
    • Colour me confused.
  • (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same colour.
    • Can this graph be two-coloured ?
    You can colour any map with four colours.

    Synonyms

    * (give something colour) dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tint * (apply colours within boundaries of a line drawing) * blush * (affect without completely changing) affect, influence * (attribute a quality to) call

    Derived terms

    * colour by numbers

    See also

    * tincture *

    External links

    * * (Colors)

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