Flush may refer to:

Places

Flush, Kansas Flush is an unincorporated community in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States. It is located between St George and Westmoreland. History Flush derived its name from Michael Floersch, a pioneer settler. When the post office was opened in F ...

, a community in the United States

Architecture, construction and manufacturing

* Flush cut, a type of cut made with a French flush-cut saw 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 i ...

, 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 comm ...

), in metal forming * Flush hole, a countersink *

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 hand in card games ** Flush (poker), 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) Flushing is to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions. Flushing is generally distinguished, despite a close physiological relation between them, from blushing, which is milder, gene ...

, 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 northe ...

plant *

Harris flush A Harris flush is a type of enema aimed to evacuate painful flatus from a patient who has undergone abdominal surgery. It differs from a standard enema in that it is intended to alleviate flatus, while the purpose of standard enemas is to principal ...

, 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 seepage or flush of water from low-lying ground

Computing

* Allocate-on-flush, a computer file system *

Cache flush A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from the main memory. A cache is a smaller, faster memory, located closer to a processor core, which ...

, when a CPU cache is emptied

Other uses

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

justification Justification may refer to: * Justification (epistemology), a property of beliefs that a person has good reasons for holding * Justification (jurisprudence), defence in a prosecution for a criminal offenses * Justification (theology), God's act of ...

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