Flush may refer to:

Places

* Flush, Kansas, a community in the United States

Architecture, construction and manufacturing

* Flush cut, a type of cut made with a

French flush-cut saw A French flush-cut saw is a double-edged tool, similar to a veneer saw, that is designed for trimming the ends of dowel A dowel is a cylindrical rod, usually made of wood, plastic, or metal. In its original manufactured form, a dowel is called ...

or diagonal pliers *

Flush deck Flush deck is a term in naval architecture. It can refer to any deck of a ship which is continuous from stem to stern. History The flush deck design originated with rice ships built in Bengal Subah, Mughal India (modern Bangladesh), resulting ...

, in naval architecture *

Flush door A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a ''doorway'' or ''portal''. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security by ...

* Flush hem (

hemming and seaming Hemming and seaming are two similar metalworking processes in which a sheet metal edge is rolled over onto itself. Hemming is the process in which the edge is rolled flush to itself, while a seam joins the edges of two materials.. Hems are co ...

), in metal forming * Flush hole, a

countersink A countersink (symbol: ⌵) is a conical hole cut into a manufactured object, or the cutter used to cut such a hole. A common use is to allow the head of a countersunk bolt, screw or rivet, when placed in the hole, to sit flush with or below the ...

Flush rivet A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed, a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite to the head is called the ''tail''. On installation, the rivet is placed in a punched ...

, countersunk rivets

Art, entertainment, and media

Flush (cards) A flush is a hand of playing cards where all cards are of the same suit. There are different types of flush, including straight, where the flush is formed from a run of cards in unbroken sequence of ranks. Flushes are one of the types of scoring h ...

, a hand in card games **

Flush (poker) In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called ''hands'', according to the rules of the game. Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the ranks of other hands participating in the showdown to decide who wins the pot. In high ...

, a type of poker hand **See also: Royal flush * Flush (

slalom skiing Slalom is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline, involving skiing between poles or gates. These are spaced more closely than those in giant slalom, super-G, super giant slalom and Downhill (ski competition), downhill, necessitating ...

), a consecutive series of vertical gates * ''Flush'' (novel), a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen * '' Flush: A Biography'', an imaginative fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog, by Virginia Woolf * "Flush" (Mötley Crüe song), 1997 * "Flush" (Brian Welch song), 2008 * ''Flush'' (film), a 1977 American comedy film

Biology, botany, and healthcare

* Flush (physiology), to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions * Flush, a growth of leaves on the

tea Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of ''Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and north ...

plant * Harris flush, an enema type *

Saline flush A saline flush is the method of clearing intravenous lines (IVs), central lines or arterial lines of any medicine or other perishable liquids to keep the lines (tubes) and entry area clean and sterile. Typically in flushing an intravenous cannula, ...

Seep (hydrology) A seep or flush is a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the earth's surface from an underground aquifer. Description Seeps are usually not of sufficient volume to be flowing beyond their immediate above-ground location. ...

, a seepage or flush of water from low-lying ground

Computing

Allocate-on-flush Allocate-on-flush (also called delayed allocation) is a file system feature implemented in HFS+, XFS, Reiser4, ZFS, Btrfs, and ext4. The feature also closely resembles an older technique that Berkeley's Unix File System, UFS called "block reallocati ...

, a computer file system * Cache flush, when a CPU cache is emptied

Other uses

First flush First flush is the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm. During this phase, water pollution entering storm drains in areas with high proportions of impervious surfaces is typically more concentrated compared to the remainder of the storm. Conse ...

, the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm * Flush text, in justification *

Flush toilet A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC) – see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (principally urine and feces) by using the force of water to ''flush'' it through a drainpipe to another lo ...

, a toilet using water to dispose of waste, the operation of which is called a "flush"