Flush vs Wave - What's the difference?
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A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.2:
To cause to take flight from concealment.
To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
* W. Browne
smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
wealthy or well off.
(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
Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
* Arbuthnot
A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
* Ray
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
Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
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.
To cause to blush.
* John Gay
* Keats
* 1925 , Fruit of the Flower , by
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
To excite, inflame.
* South
(of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
(computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
* Boyle
To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
* Milton
(masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
(lb) To move back and forth repeatedly.
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(lb) To have an undulating or wavy form.
(lb) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea
(lb) To produce waves to the hair.
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To swing and miss at a pitch.
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(lb) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
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(lb) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
:(Sir Thomas Browne)
To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Look, with what courteous action / It waves you to a more removed ground.
* (1809-1892)
*:She spoke, and bowing waved / Dismissal.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
(figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
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A sideway movement of the hand(s).
A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit. Usually referred to as "the wave"
As nouns the difference between flush and wave
is that flush is a group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc or flush can be a sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes or flush can be (poker) a hand consisting of all cards with the same suit while wave is a moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.As verbs the difference between flush and wave
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 wave is (lb) to move back and forth repeatedly or wave can be .As an adjective flush
is smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.flush
English
(wikipedia flush)Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(es)- As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].
Verb
(es)- The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.
- A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.
- flushing from one spray unto another
Etymology 2
Same as according to the American Heritage DictionaryAdjective
(er)- Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.
- He just got a bonus so he's flush today.
- With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.
- Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.
Synonyms
* (typography) double-clean, flush left and right, forced, forced justified, force justified, justifiedDerived terms
* flush left, flush right, flush left and rightEtymology 3
Probably from according to American Heritage DictionaryNoun
(es)- in manner of a wave or flush
- the flush of angered shame
- the flush''' on the side of a peach; the '''flush on the clouds at sunset
- a flush of joy
Verb
(es)- Flush the injury with plenty of water.
- The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.
- Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
- Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow.
- "Who plants a seed begets a bud, -- Extract of that same root; -- Why marvel at the hectic blood -- That flushes this wild fruit?"
- to flush the meadows
- such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition
- There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing .
- Blood flushes into the face.
- the flushing noise of many waters
- In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.
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) blushEtymology 4
Probably from (etyl) , cognate with fluxNoun
(es)Derived terms
* busted flush * royal flush * straight flushwave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waven, from (etyl) .Verb
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Derived terms
* wave off * waver * wave the white flagEtymology 2
From (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
- Gravity waves , while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
- Her hair had a nice wave to it.
- sine wave
- A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
- A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
- A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
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- With a wave of the hand.