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Flash

noun

(pl. flashes)

1.

A sudden intense burst of radiant energy.

2.

A momentary brightness.

3.

A short vivid experience. Synonym: flashing. "The flashings of pain were a warning"

4.

A sudden brilliant understanding.

5.

A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat). Synonyms: blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink.

6.

A gaudy outward display. Synonyms: fanfare, ostentation.

7.

A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate. Synonym: flare.

8.

A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story. Synonyms: news bulletin, newsbreak, newsflash.

9.

A bright patch of color used for decoration or identification. "A flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"

10.

A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph. Synonyms: flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun, photoflash.

adjective

1.

Tastelessly showy. Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy. "A flashy ring" , "Garish colors" , "A gaudy costume" , "Loud sport shirts" , "A meretricious yet stylish book" , "Tawdry ornaments"

verb

(past & past part. flashed; pres. part. flashing)

1.

Gleam or glow intermittently. Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle.

2.

Appear briefly.

3.

Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously. Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank.

4.

Make known or cause to appear with great speed.

5.

Run or move very quickly or hastily. Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot.

6.

Expose or show briefly.

7.

Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal.

8.

Emit a brief burst of light.

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"Flash" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cameron, hesitating, but with a flash of pride in her eyes as she went on. "No. I cannot deny that my niece is descended from those who, in point of birth, were not unequal to your own ancestors. But what of that?" she added, with a bitter despondency of tone. "Equality of birth ceases when one ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... weak, or Abby thought they were, and the doctor had told her I must not sit too long over my bench, but must be out in the air as much as might be, though not at hard labour. Then,—those afternoons, I am saying,—I would be off like a flash with my fiddle,—off to the yellow sand beach where the round pebbles lay. I could never let my poor father hear me play; it was a knife in his heart even to see the Lady; and these hours on the beach were ...

— Rosin the Beau • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

... dale and sounding Sands. How lightly then it flash'd along— Like those trim Boats, unknown of yore, On Winding Lakes and Rivers wide, That ask no aid of Sail or Oar, That fear no spite of Wind or Tide. Pencil { Nought car'd this Body for wind or weather, { When youth and I ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... Dansville, I think—and awaited the coming of an approaching buggy from which to ask the way. It was driven by two ladies, who, on our making a signal of distress to them, immediately whipped up with evident alarm, and disappeared in a flash. Dear things! they evidently anticipated a hold-up, and no doubt arrived home with a breathless tale of two suspicious-looking ...

— October Vagabonds • Richard Le Gallienne

... decidedly. "He may have more than one reason for keeping silent," he said with a swift flash of intuition. "If it is as you say, he is shielding himself as well as you. If your father was killed while Thalassa was out of the house that night, ...

— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees

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