What's the difference between blush and lush?

Blush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
  • (v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
  • (v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
  • (v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • (v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
  • (n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
  • (n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
  • (2) Angiography of the internal carotid artery was found useful in demonstrating vascular displacements and tumor blush.
  • (3) However, almost anything can be used to blush water into wine: fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, teabags – whatever you think might taste good.
  • (4) It is concluded that the cervical sympathetic outflow is the main pathway for thermoregulatory flushing and emotional blushing and that diminution or absence of such vasodilator reactions is a usual component of Horner's syndrome unless the responsible lesion is confined to the first thoracic root.
  • (5) While Sergio Agüero has been known to leave it even later before sparing Manchester City’s blushes in the past, he could hardly have picked a better time to offer a reminder of the devastating qualities that make him the most potent striker in the Premier League when his troublesome hamstrings are not playing up.
  • (6) If the diagnosis is still unclear, selective angiography may reveal the tumor blush typical of osteoid osteoma.
  • (7) James focused a the "poor man's thermography"--a technique involving cooling of the breast by ethyl chloride sprayed onto a sponge and observing for a "blush" during recovery.
  • (8) In 58 patients with no blush, 48 showed a final diagnosis of malignant breast disease.
  • (9) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
  • (10) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (11) Parents of children in the age range 3 to 12 years were asked about their children's embarrassment and blushing during the previous six months.
  • (12) Early venous filling and vascular blush have been known for a long time with cerebral inflammatory disease, but venous drainage through irregular veins is unusual.
  • (13) An angiogram done in one patient showed a capillary blush and early cortical draining veins in the corresponding area.
  • (14) The angiographic phase of the bone scan demonstrated a well-defined radionuclide blush within the pelvis just cephalad to the urinary bladder with persistent hyperemia noted in the blood-pool image.
  • (15) This model posits that people blush when they experience undesired social attention.
  • (16) Both absolute and proportional increases were consistent with the view that the greater vascular capacitance in the visible, superficial cutaneous vasculature in the blush area accounts for the limited distribution of flushing in response to a systemic stimulus.
  • (17) Steven Wood, associate in social housing litigation at Coffin Mew LLP "The housing strategy for England is hailed as 'radical and unashamedly ambitious' but at first blush appears to predominantly be a recycling of ideas that are already out to consultation or at various stages of being enacted by changes in the law.
  • (18) Left vertebral angiography demonstrated a faint tumor blush which was confirmed to be fed by the medial and the lateral posterior choroidal and the thalamo-perforating arteries bilaterally.
  • (19) As well as that season’s first, he also saved Flanagan’s blushes there; the young full-back had conceded a needless corner with a loose cushioned header sent in the vague direction of his keeper.
  • (20) Only blushing is an expression of a reaction behaviour characteristic of human beings only.

Lush


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of juice or succulence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (2) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
  • (3) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
  • (4) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (5) Smaller Kalymnos, Kasos, Kastellorizo and Symi are less lush than their bigger companions but all have elegant harbours – a legacy of their trading past – and rocky interiors that offer good walking.
  • (6) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
  • (7) From the summit, accessed via the Summit trail or a paved forest service road, visitors can marvel at the line of Cascade volcanoes to the east, the lush, green Willamette valley below and the Pacific Ocean to the west, making this one of the best places for views in the state.
  • (8) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
  • (9) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
  • (10) Doubles from £84, B&B Le Gite d’Indaiatiba, near Paraty Le Gite díIndaiatiba, near Paraty Paraty has one of Brazil’s most astonishing settings, where rainforest-covered peaks spill down to bay after beautiful blue bay, so why not back off the historic centre a bit and make your way into the lush surroundings of the Serra do Bocaina mountains?
  • (11) Amazon shoppers searching for Lush products would instead be directed to similar products described as "lush".
  • (12) and MacFarlane's newest animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show , may wonder what has happened to their comic hero once they have seen him step out behind the microphone in his tuxedo to the accompaniment of Wilson's lush strings.
  • (13) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
  • (14) The resort, one of the largest ever foreign investments in China, includes a 225-acre Magic Kingdom-style park with a castle surrounded by themed areas, with guests entering through a lush 11-acre garden.
  • (15) Samples collected from or near surface waters in a lush hardwood forest yielded four salmonellae serotypes from six culturally positive samples.
  • (16) Sangin's lush wheat fields and dense poppy groves soon became killing fields.
  • (17) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
  • (18) Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.
  • (19) Starting in a lush valley edged by high cliffs, it climbs a side valley to a rocky ridge.
  • (20) It was special, too, to have someone take beautiful pictures.” Those pictures promote an idyll that doesn’t seem to belong to this age, with both women wearing vintage dresses, carrying picnic baskets filled with passionfruit curd through a lush garden.