Flush
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A cleansing with plenty of fluid. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet. A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out. wealthy or well off. Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid. Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing lots of water. To cause to take flight from concealment. To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance. To take suddenly to flight, esp. from cover. (Toilets only) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water. (Computer Science) To clear a buffer of its contents.
Example sentence: When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.
Sluice
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.The stream flowing through a flood gate.A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.