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A device that produces a short flash of light to help illuminate a scene, mostly for night-time or indoors photography.
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A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
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A very short amount of time.
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A flashlight; an electric torch.
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A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
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Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
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(Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
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A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
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A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
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A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
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A form of military insignia.
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I just got my first commando flash.
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Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
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A tattoo flash.
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The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
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A newsflash.
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To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
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He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
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To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
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The light flashed on and off.
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To be visible briefly.
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The scenery flashed by quickly.
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To make visible briefly.
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A number will be flashed on the screen.
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To briefly, and often unintentionally, expose one's naked body or underwear, or part of it, in public. (Contrast streak.)
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Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.
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To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons or as an act of contempt.
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To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
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To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
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He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.
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To communicate quickly.
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The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.
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To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
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Flash forward to the present day.
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To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
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Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
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(of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
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To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
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To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
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(glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
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(glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
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To send by some startling or sudden means.
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To burst out into violence.
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To perform a flash.
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To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
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To trick up in a showy manner.
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To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
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Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
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(of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
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(of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
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Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
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Relating to thieves and vagabonds.
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flash notes: counterfeit banknotes
Examples of flash in a Sentence
One screen was a flash of colors and shapes.
When another flash painted the night, he was sure.
A flash of irritation crossed his gaze.
The room lit up with a bright flash of lightening, and thunder rattled the windowpane.
A flash of a dream went through her mind.
She took a step back at the flash of heat.
A flash of cool energy zipped through him as their lips met.
She glanced toward the dark cell and saw the silver eyes flash dangerously.
A brilliant flash of lightning made the furniture in their bedroom stand out in relief.
She saw the flash of a street lamp.
He glimpsed the sparkle of a tear in the flash of on-coming headlights.
It was a last flash of gaiety.
Realization crossed her features and with it another flash of anger.
It wasn't a flash of understanding, but a spark.
The woman in his arms ducked her head again and closed her eyes, missing the flash of darkness that crossed his mind and face.
As Two gazed at Damian, another flash of images driving him to his knees.
I remembered the flash light in the Jeep, from the last time.
Quick as a flash she said, "My think is white, Viney's think is black."
What if a ray of light should flash through the darkened chambers of my soul?
I was dragged to my feet from behind by my captor as police burst through the door and the room ignited with the blinding glow of several flash lights.
Dusty pulled his phone free and saw Toni's number flash across the screen.
The flash of her reflection in the mirror caught her attention.
A little further ahead, they glimpsed a white flash of tail as a deer bounded crossed the trail no more than fifty feet ahead of them.
She had greeted ten men and two women before she felt the first flash of cold.
Instead of a third drink, a flash of cold fire was forced through the fangs into her body.
A flash of lightning jerked her attention to the clouds again.
There was another flash, and the light disappeared.
There was single drop of blood on her cheek, a flash of red that clearly had been enhanced and shaded the same hue as the necklace dangling in the space between them.
In a flash I knew that the word was the name of the process that was going on in my head.
At the same instant he was dazzled by a great flash of flame, and immediately a deafening roar, crackling, and whistling made his ears tingle.
Her own words bounced off the wall and came back as a flash of memory and imagination.
The same breeze giving the curtains heartburn tossed her hair around, and she pushed it aside, a flash of red making her gasp.
During thunderstorms the record from an electrograph shows large sudden excursions, the trace usually going off the sheet with every flash of.
The earliest form of testing instrument employed for this purpose was that of Giuseppe Tagliabue of New York, which consists of a glass cup placed in a copper water bath heated by a spirit lamp. The cup is filled with the oil to be tested, a thermometer placed in it and heat applied, the temperatures being noted at which, on passing a lighted splinter of wood over the surface of the oil, a flash occurs, and after further heating, the oil ignites.
The deliverance of the besieged from a surprise, by means of a flash of light which revealed the advancing masses of the Macedonian army, has rendered this siege memorable.
From the flash of the rifles, it was clear that the French main position was still intact, and as every body of troops within thirty-six hours' call had been engaged there seemed little prospect of renewing the struggle next morning.
If chlorine be bubbled up into a jar of acetylene standing over water, a violent explosion, attended with a flash of intense light and the deposition of carbon, at once takes place.
In a flash he realized his danger and made prompt arrangements to begin his retreat on Namur, the only line to France that was then available.
Whereupon he seized the oracular tripod, and so entered upon a contest with Apollo, which Zeus stopped by sending a flash of lightning between the combatants.
We see lightning before we hear the thunder which spreads out from the flash, and the more distant the flash the longer the interval between the two.
The observer measures by a clock or chronometer the time elapsing between the receipt of the flash, which passes practically instantaneously, and the receipt of the report.
When the interval between a flash and a report is measured, the personal equations for the two arrivals are, in all probability, different, that for the flash being most likely less than that for the sound.
An observer with his ear to the tube noted the interval between the arrival of flash and sound.
If the fork makes exactly 32 vibrations and the wheel 8 revolutions in one pendulum beat, then the positions will be fixed, and every two seconds, the time of a complete pendulum vibration, he will see the two positions looked at flash out in succession at an interval of a second.
Then the first flash in the new position is viewed by the 8Nth passage of the opening, and the second flash in the original position of the first is viewed when the pendulum has made exactly N beats and by the (8 N + i)th passage of the hole.
He began, too, to take an active interest in politics over the Eastern Question, but his enthusiasm was at the moment a flash in the pan.
Sir William Watson (1715-1787) in England first observed the flash of light when a Leyden jar is discharged, and he and Dr John Bevis (1695-1771) suggested coating the jar inside and outside with tinfoil.
The sudden flash which disclosed to the eyes of Hebal the whole epic of humanity cannot be reproduced in language trammelled by time and space.
His logic, while never obtruded, was rarely at fault; but lie loved the flash of the rapier, and was never happier than when he had to face down a mob and utterly foil it by sheer superiority in fencing.
Young caught the " flash spectrum " of the reversing layer, at the moment of second contact, at Xerez de la Frontera in Spain, on the 22nd of December 1870.