Flushing meaning

flŭsh'ĭng
A section of New York City in northern Queens on western Long Island. Flushing Meadows was the site of two world's fairs (1939–1940 and 1964–1965) and the temporary headquarters of the United Nations (1946–1949).
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N section of Queens, New York City, on the East River.
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Present participle of flush.
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The act by which something is flushed.

We tried to repair the toilet, but it broke again after two or three flushings.

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(UK) A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.
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A surface formed of floating threads.
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Origin of flushing

  • altered < Du Vlissingen, town in the Netherlands
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

Flushing Sentence Examples

  • long, a certain volume being discharged at every blow and carried forward by the flushing water over an apron or table in front, covered by copper plates filled with mercury.

  • She looked at it, flushing to think someone had taken the time to figure out her sizes.

  • A great fleet was fitted out, partly at Flushing, partly in the Texel.

  • Mine fires may sometimes be reached by bore-holes sunk for the purpose from the surface, and the burning workings below filled by flushing with culm and water.

  • Her face was flushing again, and he saw the signs she wasn't as unaffected by him as he first thought.

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