flash
Meanings
verb
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To be visible briefly.
- To make visible briefly.
- To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To communicate quickly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
noun
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- A very short amount of time.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
- A form of military insignia.
adj
- Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- Having plenty of ready money.
- Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
- Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- Relating to thieves and vagabonds.
noun
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- 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.
name
- A multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.
name
- Any of various DC Comics superheroes who have the power of superspeed, derived from an energy called the Speed Force.
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Etymology
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
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