Look up: flushing

1. Flushing
   [military tactic] Flushing (or Flush) is a military tactic whereby grenades, smoke, gunfire, riot control agent, chemical weapons, or various other methods can be used to flush opponents out from cover. Flushing can cause opponents to leave their cover, possibly making them vulnerable to fur...
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2. flushing
   process by which a pigment dispersed in water is converted directly to a pigment dispersed in a different medium in paste form Category: The chemical industry • flush:to prepare for breeding by improving the ration for a time Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processin...
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3. Flushing
   Flush'ing noun 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the ... [ Eng.] 2. (Weaving) A surface formed of floating threads.
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4. flushing
   <clinical sign> Transient redness of the face and neck caused by cutaneous vasodilation due to a variety of causes, such as drugs, alcohol, and carcinoid tumours. It does not include blushing. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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5. Flushing
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flush • (n.) A surface formed of floating threads. • (n.) A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /
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6. flushing
   (from the article `tree`) ...the seedling resembles a clump of grass. This is probably an adaptation to fire, water stress, and perhaps grazing. The root volume, however, ...
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7. Flushing
   northern section of the borough of Queens, New York City, U.S., at the head of Flushing Bay (East River). Settled in 1645 by English Nonconformists ...
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8. Flushing
   [physiology] For a person to flush 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, generally restricted to...
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9. Flushing
   Flushing, Netherlands: see Vlissingen.
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10. Flushing
    Flushing, former village, now in N Queens borough of New York City, SE N.Y.; chartered 1645, inc. into Greater New York City with Queens in 1898. Although chiefly residential, Flushing has gained importance as a trading and manufacturing center. It was chartered (as Vlissingen) by the Dutch West Ind...
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11. Flushing
    providing especially nutritious feed in the few weeks before mating to improve fertility, or in the period before birth to increase lamb birth-weight.
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