flashingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈflaʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈflæʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < flash v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

The action of the verb in various senses.

1. A splashing (of water).

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gaschement..a flashing, dashing, or plashing, as of water in rowing.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Flashing..dashing or spurting as Water, a Spurting.

2. The process of letting down a flash of water to carry a boat over the shallows of a river.

ΚΠ

1791 Rep. Navigation Thames & Isis 11 By removing the shallows, and continuing the use of Flashing.

3. The bursting out or sending forth of flame or light.

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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > flash > action of flashing

levininga1300

brandishing1552

flashing1574

outflashing1834

winking1908

1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 617 The Flashing of fire, or lightning, coruscatio.

1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 81 They began their Flashings and Musique until all were gone out.

?1748 B. Franklin Let. in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 44 The sphere of electrical attraction is far beyond the distance of flashing.

1880 R. Browning Echetlos in Dramatic Idyls 8 A flashing came and went.

figurative and in extended use.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. v. 26 So much the greater is their sinne, that seeke to flash out these flashings.1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 15 Rome, from whence was to be expected the furious flashing of Excommunications.1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 282 Mingled with Poetical flashings and ginglings.

4. A rapid movement resembling or producing a flash of light; the drawing or waving of a sword with a flash.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [noun] > light and brisk

playa1628

flashing1865

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > flash > movement resembling or producing

flashing1865

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. ii. 48 The corruscations of the Aurora are said to have been attributed to the flashings of their wings.

1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 19 Excited by the flashing of the naked swords.

5. slang. = indecent exposure at exposure n. 1f.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity > indecent exposure

indecent exposure1851

exhibitionism1893

flashing1968

1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 297/2 Meat-flashing,..exposure of the person. Hence meat-flasher = a public offender in this line.]

1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman ii. 11 City parks also have their share of ‘flashing’.

1971 R. Busby Deadlock vi. 84 He's got two previous for indecent assault and one for flashing on his form sheet.

1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xxii. 246 The commonest of the indecent offences before the courts is indecent exposure, sometimes called ‘flashing’.

6. technical.

a. Glass-making. (See flash v.¹ 14a.)

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1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 3) iv. 35 The process for making window glass, termed ‘flashing’.

1839 Sat. Mag. 23 Feb. 66/1 Flashing, that is, uniting a thin layer of coloured glass with another layer which is colourless.

b. Electric lighting. (see quot. 1892 and flash v.¹ 14b.)

ΚΠ

1892 Gloss. Electr. Terms in Lightning 3 Mar. Suppl. Flashing, (a) Of a dynamo machine. Abnormally long sparks sometimes seen at the commutator of a dynamo. (b) A process for rendering the filaments of incandescent lamps of uniform resistance throughout.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

flashing-furnace n.

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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 580 [article Glass-making] There are..several subsidiary furnaces to a crown-house..3. a flashing furnace, and bottoming hole for communicating a softening heat.

C2.

flashing-board n. a sloping board at the bottom of a door or casement to keep off the rain.

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1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 309 Reverseau,..set-off, flashing-board.

flashing-point n. the temperature at which the vapour given off from an oil or hydrocarbon will ‘flash’ or ignite.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs

freezing-point1748

boiling-point1773

absolute zero1798

firing point1807

melting temperature1827

ice point1832

dew-point1833

melting point1838

neutral temperature1854

fusing point or temperature1860

welding point1868

flashing-point1878

flashpoint1878

mp1880

ignition temperature1881

silver-point1882

fire point1884

ignition point1887

neutral point1892

smoking point1915

smoking temperature1915

pour point1922

smoke point1933

1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. 570 The flashing-point was proved to have been abnormally high.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flashingn.²

Brit.

/ˈflaʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈflæʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < flash v.² + -ing suffix¹; compare flash n.⁴

concrete. (See quot. 1874.)

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > flashing

flash1574

flashing1783

1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 359 At its junction with the wall a flashing of lead is carried along horizontally.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 583 Round the extreme edges of flats and gutters where lead is used, are fixed pieces of milled lead which are called flashings.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 876/2 Flashing, (a) A lap-joint used in sheet-metal roofing, where the edges of the sheets meet on a projecting edge. (b) A strip of lead leading the drip of a wall into a gutter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flashingadj.

Brit.

/ˈflaʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈflæʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < flash v.¹ + -ing suffix².

a. That flashes, in various senses of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > flashing

flaming?a1400

flashing1548

brandishing1581

lamping1590

lightening1592

flashy1609

fulgid1610

bickering1667

coruscating1705

outflaming1856

aglance1880

flashful1890

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering

levininga1340

leaming1387

gloringa1400

gleamingc1400

glimpsing1551

shimmering1558

glooming1579

brandishing1581

gleamy1593

glancing1596

glimmering1600

flickering1608

flashing1616

blinking1681

glimmerous1793

skimmeringa1800

aglimmer1828

agleam1854

aglint1871

aglance1880

glinting1883

shimmery1883

glimmery1906

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling

wallingOE

waveringc1425

surging1566

trilling1567

wambling1581

grown1600

surgeful1612

sourcinga1660

washing1697

flashing1744

under-rolling1745

jawing1802

rolly1885

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus James in Paraphr. New Test. iii. f. 5 Wherof cometh that horrible and broade flasshing flame of fyre?

1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 330 His horse was of a sangine color redd, so weare his flasshinge plumes aloft his head.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 71 Fast, fast, they plunge amid the flashing Wave.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. iii. 38 Before the flashing eye and menacing gesture of the cavalier.

b. transferred and figurative.

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a1617 S. Hieron Wks. (1624) I. 315 Imagination and fancy may breed a certaine flashing ioy, but there is no perpetuity, no setlednesse of reioycing.

1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. a4 Scorched with flashing Zeal.

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xii. 238 Her lovely face which was crimsoned with her flashing blood.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 555 Again and again she beholds the flashing beauty of the beloved.

c. flashing light (in a lighthouse, etc.). flashing signals, signals made with flashes of light. Hence, applied to a direction indicator on a motor vehicle which signals with flashes of light.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > flashing signal

flashing signals1858

flashlight1886

telephote1893

flasher1909

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > light beacon or lighthouse > light in

flashing light1858

fixed light1889

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [adjective] > type of indicator

flashing light1932

1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 30 Flashing Light on Hogsten..It is Fixed, with a Flash once every three minutes.

1863 Colomb in Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. VII. 386 We then agreed that..a system of flashing signals was practicable.

1932 Daily Express 20 Sept. 3 Everyone's talking about the new flashing Direction Indicator which only Morris cars carry. This device gives safer signalling.

1959 ‘Motor’ Man. (ed. 36) vi. 183 Another change since the war has been the progressive displacement of the semaphore-type of direction indicator by flashing light signals, and this latter system is now nearly universal on modern cars... Flashing turn indicators are operated either by a switch of the self-cancelling type mounted on the steering column, or by an independent switch mounted within easy reach of the driver.

Compounds

flashing-eyed adj.

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1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. iii. iv ‘You are ruining the child!’ cries Gillian, still flashing-eyed and panting.

Derivatives

ˈflashingly adv. in a flashing manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adverb] > in a flashing manner

flashingly1891

1891 Illustr. London News 21 Nov. 658/3 They rain flashingly, a visible brilliance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1574

n.²1783

adj.1548

单词	flashing
释义	flashingn.¹ Brit. /ˈflaʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈflæʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < flash v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. The action of the verb in various senses. 1. A splashing (of water). ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gaschement..a flashing, dashing, or plashing, as of water in rowing. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Flashing..dashing or spurting as Water, a Spurting. 2. The process of letting down a flash of water to carry a boat over the shallows of a river. ΚΠ 1791 Rep. Navigation Thames & Isis 11 By removing the shallows, and continuing the use of Flashing. 3. The bursting out or sending forth of flame or light. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > flash > action of flashing levininga1300 brandishing1552 flashing1574 outflashing1834 winking1908 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 617 The Flashing of fire, or lightning, coruscatio. 1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 81 They began their Flashings and Musique until all were gone out. ?1748 B. Franklin Let. in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 44 The sphere of electrical attraction is far beyond the distance of flashing. 1880 R. Browning Echetlos in Dramatic Idyls 8 A flashing came and went. figurative and in extended use.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. v. 26 So much the greater is their sinne, that seeke to flash out these flashings.1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 15 Rome, from whence was to be expected the furious flashing of Excommunications.1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 282 Mingled with Poetical flashings and ginglings. 4. A rapid movement resembling or producing a flash of light; the drawing or waving of a sword with a flash. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [noun] > light and brisk playa1628 flashing1865 the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > flash > movement resembling or producing flashing1865 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. ii. 48 The corruscations of the Aurora are said to have been attributed to the flashings of their wings. 1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 19 Excited by the flashing of the naked swords. 5. slang. = indecent exposure at exposure n. 1f. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity > indecent exposure indecent exposure1851 exhibitionism1893 flashing1968 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 297/2 Meat-flashing,..exposure of the person. Hence meat-flasher = a public offender in this line.] 1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman ii. 11 City parks also have their share of ‘flashing’. 1971 R. Busby Deadlock vi. 84 He's got two previous for indecent assault and one for flashing on his form sheet. 1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xxii. 246 The commonest of the indecent offences before the courts is indecent exposure, sometimes called ‘flashing’. 6. technical. a. Glass-making. (See flash v.¹ 14a.) ΚΠ 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 3) iv. 35 The process for making window glass, termed ‘flashing’. 1839 Sat. Mag. 23 Feb. 66/1 Flashing, that is, uniting a thin layer of coloured glass with another layer which is colourless. b. Electric lighting. (see quot. 1892 and flash v.¹ 14b.) ΚΠ 1892 Gloss. Electr. Terms in Lightning 3 Mar. Suppl. Flashing, (a) Of a dynamo machine. Abnormally long sparks sometimes seen at the commutator of a dynamo. (b) A process for rendering the filaments of incandescent lamps of uniform resistance throughout. Compounds C1. General attributive. flashing-furnace n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 580 [article Glass-making] There are..several subsidiary furnaces to a crown-house..3. a flashing furnace, and bottoming hole for communicating a softening heat. C2. flashing-board n. a sloping board at the bottom of a door or casement to keep off the rain. ΚΠ 1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) i. 309 Reverseau,..set-off, flashing-board. flashing-point n. the temperature at which the vapour given off from an oil or hydrocarbon will ‘flash’ or ignite. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs freezing-point1748 boiling-point1773 absolute zero1798 firing point1807 melting temperature1827 ice point1832 dew-point1833 melting point1838 neutral temperature1854 fusing point or temperature1860 welding point1868 flashing-point1878 flashpoint1878 mp1880 ignition temperature1881 silver-point1882 fire point1884 ignition point1887 neutral point1892 smoking point1915 smoking temperature1915 pour point1922 smoke point1933 1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. 570 The flashing-point was proved to have been abnormally high. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flashingn.² Brit. /ˈflaʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈflæʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < flash v.² + -ing suffix¹; compare flash n.⁴ concrete. (See quot. 1874.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > flashing flash1574 flashing1783 1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 359 At its junction with the wall a flashing of lead is carried along horizontally. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 583 Round the extreme edges of flats and gutters where lead is used, are fixed pieces of milled lead which are called flashings. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 876/2 Flashing, (a) A lap-joint used in sheet-metal roofing, where the edges of the sheets meet on a projecting edge. (b) A strip of lead leading the drip of a wall into a gutter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flashingadj. Brit. /ˈflaʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈflæʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < flash v.¹ + -ing suffix². a. That flashes, in various senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > flashing flaming?a1400 flashing1548 brandishing1581 lamping1590 lightening1592 flashy1609 fulgid1610 bickering1667 coruscating1705 outflaming1856 aglance1880 flashful1890 the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering levininga1340 leaming1387 gloringa1400 gleamingc1400 glimpsing1551 shimmering1558 glooming1579 brandishing1581 gleamy1593 glancing1596 glimmering1600 flickering1608 flashing1616 blinking1681 glimmerous1793 skimmeringa1800 aglimmer1828 agleam1854 aglint1871 aglance1880 glinting1883 shimmery1883 glimmery1906 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling wallingOE waveringc1425 surging1566 trilling1567 wambling1581 grown1600 surgeful1612 sourcinga1660 washing1697 flashing1744 under-rolling1745 jawing1802 rolly1885 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus James in Paraphr. New Test. iii. f. 5 Wherof cometh that horrible and broade flasshing flame of fyre? 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 330 His horse was of a sangine color redd, so weare his flasshinge plumes aloft his head. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 71 Fast, fast, they plunge amid the flashing Wave. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. iii. 38 Before the flashing eye and menacing gesture of the cavalier. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ a1617 S. Hieron Wks. (1624) I. 315 Imagination and fancy may breed a certaine flashing ioy, but there is no perpetuity, no setlednesse of reioycing. 1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. a4 Scorched with flashing Zeal. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xii. 238 Her lovely face which was crimsoned with her flashing blood. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 555 Again and again she beholds the flashing beauty of the beloved. c. flashing light (in a lighthouse, etc.). flashing signals, signals made with flashes of light. Hence, applied to a direction indicator on a motor vehicle which signals with flashes of light. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > flashing signal flashing signals1858 flashlight1886 telephote1893 flasher1909 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > light beacon or lighthouse > light in flashing light1858 fixed light1889 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [adjective] > type of indicator flashing light1932 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 30 Flashing Light on Hogsten..It is Fixed, with a Flash once every three minutes. 1863 Colomb in Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. VII. 386 We then agreed that..a system of flashing signals was practicable. 1932 Daily Express 20 Sept. 3 Everyone's talking about the new flashing Direction Indicator which only Morris cars carry. This device gives safer signalling. 1959 ‘Motor’ Man. (ed. 36) vi. 183 Another change since the war has been the progressive displacement of the semaphore-type of direction indicator by flashing light signals, and this latter system is now nearly universal on modern cars... Flashing turn indicators are operated either by a switch of the self-cancelling type mounted on the steering column, or by an independent switch mounted within easy reach of the driver. Compounds flashing-eyed adj. ΚΠ 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. iii. iv ‘You are ruining the child!’ cries Gillian, still flashing-eyed and panting. Derivatives ˈflashingly adv. in a flashing manner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adverb] > in a flashing manner flashingly1891 1891 Illustr. London News 21 Nov. 658/3 They rain flashingly, a visible brilliance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1574n.²1783adj.1548
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