Flash

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Ever notice how quick the flash is on a camera? That's how fast other types of flashes are, including the super fast superhero The Flash.

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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

Noun
a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

Noun
a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"

Noun
a momentary brightness

Noun
a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition"

Noun
a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

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Noun
a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

Noun
a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"

Noun
a sudden intense burst of radiant energy

Noun
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I''d do it in a flash"

Verb
appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen"

Verb
emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone"

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make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"

Verb
protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the roof"

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run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"

Verb
expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill"

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display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"

Verb
gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"

Adjective S.
tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

v. i.
To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

v. i.
To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.

v. i.
To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

v. t.
To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

v. t.
To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.

v. t.
To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

n.
To trick up in a showy manner.

n.
To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

n.
A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

n.
A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

n.
The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

n.
A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

a.
Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

a.
Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

n.
Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

n.
A pool.

n.
A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

Flash

Flash , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flashed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flashing.] [Cf. OE. flaskien, vlaskien to pour, sprinkle, dial. Sw. flasa to blaze, E. flush, flare.] 1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unumbered struggles.
The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.
A thought floashed through me, which I clothed in act.
3. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other.
To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett. Syn. -- Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister. Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.

Flash

Flash , v. t. 1. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames.
2. To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind. 3. (Glass Making) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b). 4. To trick up in a showy manner.
Limning and flashing it with various dyes.
5. [Perh. due to confusion between flash of light and plash, splash.] To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.]
He rudely flashed the waves about.
Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

Flash

Flash, n.; pl. Flashes . 1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning. 2. A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.
No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.
3. The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.
4. A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. Flash light, ∨ Flashing light, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

Flash

Flash, a. 1. Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery. 2. Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. Flash house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.

Flash

Flash, n. Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

Flash

Flash, n. [OE. flasche, flaske; cf. OF. flache, F. flaque.] 1. A pool. [Prov. Eng.] Haliwell. 2. (Engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal. Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

A pool.

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Usage Examples

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Misspelled Form

Flash, Flash, lash, Flash, Fklash, Folash, Fplash, F:lash, Fkash, Foash, Fpash, F:ash, Flkash, Floash, Flpash, Fl:ash, Flqash, Flwash, Flsash, Flzash, Flqsh, Flwsh, Flssh, Flzsh, Flaqsh, Flawsh, Flassh, Flazsh, Flaash, Flawsh, Flaesh, Fladsh, Flaxsh, Flazsh, Flaah, Flawh, Flaeh, Fladh, Flaxh, Flazh, Flasah, Flaswh, Flaseh, Flasdh, Flasxh, Flaszh, Flasgh, Flasyh, Flasuh, Flasjh, Flasnh, Flasg, Flasy, Flasu, Flasj, Flasn, Flashg, Flashy, Flashu, Flashj, Flashn.

Other Usage Examples

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.