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Verb: flash flash- Gleam or glow intermittently
"The lights were flashing" - blink, wink, twinkle, winkle - Appear briefly
"The headlines flashed on the screen" - Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- flaunt, show off, ostentate [archaic], swank, parade - Make known or cause to appear with great speed
"The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts" - Run or move very quickly or hastily
- dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot - Expose or show briefly
"he flashed a $100 bill" - Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
"flash the roof" - Emit a brief burst of light
"A shooting star flashed and was gone" Noun: flash flash- A sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- A momentary brightness
- A short vivid experience
"a flash of emotion swept over him" - flashing - A sudden brilliant understanding
"he had a flash of intuition" - A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
"if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" - blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute, jiff - A gaudy outward display
- ostentation, fanfare - A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- flare - A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- news bulletin, newsflash, newsbreak - A bright patch of colour used for decoration or identification
"red flashes adorned the aeroplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to" - A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb Adjective: flash (flasher,flashest) flash- Tastelessly showy
"a flash car" - brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, schlocky
Derived forms: flashing, flashest, flashes, flashed, flasher See also: flash back, flasher, flashy, tasteless Type of: appear, belt along, bit, brainstorm, brainwave, brightness, bucket along, bulletin, cannonball along, convey, cover, display, exhibit, experience, expose, happening, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, insight, lamp, minute, mo, moment, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, patch, pelt along, photographic equipment, race, radiate, rush, rush along, second, show, speed, step on it, visual signal Part of: flash camera Encyclopedia: Flash Flash, Staffordshire Flash, The |