flush vs purple

flush

adj
  • Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright. 

  • Wealthy or well off. 

  • Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out. 

  • Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. 

adv
  • Suddenly and completely. 

noun
  • The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache. 

  • A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit. 

  • A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes. 

  • A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. 

  • Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet. 

  • Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood. 

  • A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc. 

  • A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc. 

verb
  • To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water. 

  • To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood. 

  • To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover. 

  • To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush. 

  • To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid. 

  • To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet 

  • To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water. 

  • To flow and spread suddenly; to rush. 

  • To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents. 

  • To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass. 

  • To cause to blush. 

  • To cause to take flight from concealment. 

  • Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water. 

  • To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache. 

  • To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow. 

  • To excite, inflame. 

  • To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush. 

purple

adj
  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

noun
  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

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