What's the difference between flesh and flush?

Flesh


Definition:

  • (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
  • (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
  • (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
  • (n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.
  • (n.) Human nature
  • (n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  • (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
  • (n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
  • (n.) Kindred; stock; race.
  • (n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
  • (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
  • (v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
  • (v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
  • (2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (3) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
  • (4) Experiments were conducted comparing the relative contribution of internal and external cold stimuli in the initiation of horripilation (cutis anserina or "goose flesh") in men and women.
  • (5) Cutaneous macroglobulinosis is characterized by multiple flesh-colored papules on extensor skin surfaces.
  • (6) A stimulating effect of chondroitinsulphate to regeneration of flesh wound in case of local single action didn't differ essentially from the effect of chonsuride.
  • (7) The cystic stages which occur in the flesh of herbivores are probably non-pathogenic but the earlier stages in which schizonts develop in vascular endothelium may be severely pathogenic.
  • (8) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (9) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
  • (10) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
  • (11) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
  • (12) Supporters said they were not surprised she had been let go as she had become “a thorn in the flesh” of the DfE after speaking out against government policies.
  • (13) The audience just want the thrill of seeing celebrity in the flesh.
  • (14) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
  • (15) We performed the primary operation on the flesh-colored tumor, which had surface telangiectasia.
  • (16) The idea of tattooing your flesh with the southern cross was, well, strange.
  • (17) Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.
  • (18) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
  • (19) There are four or five areas that have been highlighted by the BBC Trust that require more fleshing out."
  • (20) We have used endonuclease treatment in situ, followed by Giemsa or ethidium bromide staining, for mapping repetitive sequences on the chromosomes of the flesh fly Sarcophaga bullata and thus for studying extrachromosomal DNA granules in this species.

Flush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
  • (v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
  • (v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
  • (v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
  • (v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
  • (v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
  • (v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.
  • (v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
  • (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
  • (n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
  • (n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
  • (n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
  • (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
  • (n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.
  • (a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
  • (a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
  • (a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
  • (a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.
  • (adv.) So as to be level or even.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
  • (3) No comparable differences in development were found in cultured embryos for which the media had been supplemented with flushings from the same progestational uterine stages as used for transfer.
  • (4) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (5) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
  • (6) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
  • (7) A rapid and efficient method for obtaining murine bone marrow cells is described, which yields up to twice the amount of cells obtained by the conventional method of flushing through the bones.
  • (8) 31P NMR spectroscopy proved to be an excellent, dynamic, nondestructive method for assessing the liver during cold flush and pulsatile perfusion experiments.
  • (9) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
  • (10) Uterine horns were flushed in 5 cats 6-8 days after mating with expanded blastocysts being collected from 4 cats.
  • (11) This study suggests that a naloxone-sensitive opioid mechanism is not active in modulating luteinizing hormone secretion in the postmenopausal woman and that opioid receptor blockade is not effective in altering the frequency of menopausal flushes.
  • (12) Atracurium, metocurine and in particular d-tubocurarine have histamine-releasing properties and may cause flushing, hypotension and tachycardia.
  • (13) In 13 postorchidectomy patients who reported hot flushes we recorded cutaneous blood-flow and sweating by use of a laser-Doppler flowmeter and an evaporimeter.
  • (14) However, flushing the filters with carbenicillin or gentamicin killed the bacteria and caused the release of endotoxin into the filtrates.
  • (15) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
  • (16) Twelve grafts were flushed with and stored in Perfadex.
  • (17) The fillings were ground flush with the tooth surface and the teeth were cycled thermally between two dye solutions baths.
  • (18) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
  • (19) Using methanesulfonic acid, hydrolysis of cytochrome c at 115 degrees C for 22 h yielded recoveries equal to or higher than hydrolysis at 115 degrees C for 70 h or at 150 degrees C for 22 h. Triple evacuation of the hydrolysis tube alternated with nitrogen flush gave recovery improvements over single evacuation.
  • (20) Lack of isozyme I is responsible for the "flush-syndrome" commonly observed in asian people following alcohol intake.