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English Dictionary: flash	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for flash
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flash adj tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Synonym(s): brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy n a sudden intense burst of radiant energy a momentary brightness a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning" Synonym(s): flash, 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" Synonym(s): blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute a gaudy outward display Synonym(s): ostentation, fanfare, flash a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate Synonym(s): flare, flash a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story Synonym(s): news bulletin, newsflash, flash, newsbreak a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to" a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph Synonym(s): flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb v gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" Synonym(s): flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen" display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car" Synonym(s): flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank 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; "She dashed into the yard" Synonym(s): dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flash \Flash\, a. 1. Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flash \Flash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flashing}.] [Cf. OE. flaskien, vlaskien to pour, sprinkle, dial. Sw. flasa to blaze, E. flush, flare.] 1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash. Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles. --Talfourd. The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind. --M. Arnold. A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. --Tennyson. 3. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily. Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other. --Shak. {To flash in the pan}, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under {Flash}, a burst of light. --Bartlett. Syn: {Flash}, {Glitter}, {Gleam}, {Glisten}, {Glister}. Usage: Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flash \Flash\, n. Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flash \Flash\, n. [OE. flasche, flaske; cf. OF. flache, F. flaque.] 1. A pool. [Prov. Eng.] --Haliwell. 2. (Engineering) 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. {Flash wheel} (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flash \Flash\, n.; pl. {Flashes}. 1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning. 2. A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. --Shak. No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy. --Wirt. 3. The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period. The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. --Bacon. 4. A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. {Flash light}, [or] {Flashing light}, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. --Knight. {Flash in the pan}, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flash \Flash\, v. t. 1. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light. The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames. --Milton. 2. To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind. 3. (Glass Making) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See {Flashing}, n., 3 (b) . 4. To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. --A. Brewer. 5. [Perh. due to confusion between flash of light and plash, splash.] To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.] He rudely flashed the waves about. --Spenser. {Flashed glass}. See {Flashing}, n., 3.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Flash (Or "Shockwave Flash") A file format for delivering {interactive} {vector graphics} and animation on the {World-Wide Web}, developed by {Macromedia}. {Home (http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/)}. (1998-07-07)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
flash 1. A program which allows one to flood another {Unix} user's {terminal} with {garbage}, through exploiting a common security hole in the victim's {host}'s {talk} {daemon}. Users with "messages off" (mesg n) and users on systems running fixed talk daemons, or not running talk daemons at all, are immune. (1996-09-08) 2. See {Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory}. (1997-02-02)