Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Flash   /flæʃ/   Listen
Flash

noun
(pl. flashes)
1.
A sudden intense burst of radiant energy.
2.
A momentary brightness.
3.
A short vivid experience.  Synonym: flashing.  "The flashings of pain were a warning"
4.
A sudden brilliant understanding.
5.
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat).  Synonyms: blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink.
6.
A gaudy outward display.  Synonyms: fanfare, ostentation.
7.
A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate.  Synonym: flare.
8.
A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story.  Synonyms: news bulletin, newsbreak, newsflash.
9.
A bright patch of color used for decoration or identification.  "A flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"
10.
A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph.  Synonyms: flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun, photoflash.
adjective
1.
Tastelessly showy.  Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.  "A flashy ring" , "Garish colors" , "A gaudy costume" , "Loud sport shirts" , "A meretricious yet stylish book" , "Tawdry ornaments"
verb
(past & past part. flashed; pres. part. flashing)
1.
Gleam or glow intermittently.  Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle.
2.
Appear briefly.
3.
Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously.  Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank.
4.
Make known or cause to appear with great speed.
5.
Run or move very quickly or hastily.  Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot.
6.
Expose or show briefly.
7.
Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal.
8.
Emit a brief burst of light.



Related searches:
flash back
flash bulb
flash butt welding
flash camera
flash card
flash flood
flash in the pan
flash lamp
flash memory
flash point
flash welding
flash-forward
flash-freeze
flash-frozen
flasher
flashing
flashy
heat flash
hot flash
in a flash
shoulder flash


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Flash" Quotes from Famous Books



... animated, as do his thoughts. But in becoming animated his speech becomes hoarse and his thoughts cloudy. Hence a certain hesitation among his hearers, some being unable to catch what he says, the others not understanding. All at once from the cloud darts a flash of lightning and one is dazzled. The difference between men of this kind and Mirabeau is that the former have flashes of lightning, Mirabeau alone ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo
... you find in this, Miles Coverdale?" exclaimed Zenobia, with a flash of anger in her eyes. "That smile, permit me to say, makes me suspicious of a low tone of feeling and shallow thought. It is my belief—yes, and my prophecy, should I die before it happens—that, when my sex shall achieve its rights, there ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... anxious, more interested than anyone for the sick girl who lay so insensible of all that was passing around her, save at brief intervals when she seemed for an instant to realize where she was, for her eyes would flash about the room with a frightened, startled look, and then seek Richard's face with a wistful, pleading expression, as if asking not to cast her off, not to send her back into the dreary world where she had wandered so long alone. The ...
— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes
... more vivid flash of lightning, and a rumbling crash of thunder, made all the girls, ...
— The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car - The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley • Laura Lee Hope
... night finally fell and the five men made an attempt to leave the house upon the side away from the office building they were met with the flash of carbines and the ping of bullets. One of the Mexican defenders fell, mortally wounded, and the others were barely able to drag him within and replace the barricade before the door when five of Pesita's men charged close up to their defenses. These were finally driven off and again there ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com