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Pushing vs Flushing - What's the difference?

pushing | flushing |

As verbs the difference between pushing and flushing

is that pushing is while flushing is .

As nouns the difference between pushing and flushing

is that pushing is the act by which something is pushed while flushing is the act by which something is flushed.

As an adjective pushing

is that pushes forward; pressing, driving.

pushing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pushes forward; pressing, driving.
  • Aggressively assertive; pushy.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Ch.XV:
  • *:Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair
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  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is pushed.

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    flushing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * flushingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is flushed.
    • We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings .
  • (UK) A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.
  • A surface formed of floating threads.

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