Hoist vs Flush - What's the difference?
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To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
* Alexander Pope
* South
* 1719:
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
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(historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
To be lifted up.
(comptheory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
The act of hoisting; a lift.
The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
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.
Hoist is a related term of flush.
In lang=en terms the difference between hoist and flush
is that hoist is to be lifted up while flush is to excite, inflame.As verbs the difference between hoist and flush
is that hoist is to raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight while flush is to cause to take flight from concealment or flush can be to cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.As nouns the difference between hoist and flush
is that hoist is a hoisting device, such as pulley or crane while 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.As an adjective flush is
smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.hoist
English
Verb
- They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.
- hoisting him into his father's throne
- ...but this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.
- Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow, as if he were almost fainting.
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Usage notes
* "Hoisted" is about fifteen times more common than "hoist" in US usage as past and past participle. The "hoist" form is also uncommon in the UK except in the expression "hoist by one's own petard".Quotations
* They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails . — * Hoisting him into his father’s throne . —Noun
(en noun)- Give me a hoist over that wall.
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.
