Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
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 |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Flash" Quotes from Famous Books



... a flash—she didn't miss things! "You say that because you think I'm spiteful and envious? Yes—I was envious of Lady Ulrica...Oh, not on account of you or Jimmy Brance! Simply because she had almost all ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
... me—it came swiftly like a lightning flash, and I can't believe that it was an accident. If it had fallen into your mind with the suddenness that it fell into mine, you would believe that ...
— The Untilled Field • George Moore
... death inflicted upon the squaws, and in such a manner as to leave no trace behind, was the only sure course which the instinct of self-preservation suggested. With men of his profession action follows thought as the bolt follows the flash. Springing upon his victims with the rapidity and power of a tiger, he grasped the throat of each and sprang into the Hockhocking river. The head of the elder squaw he easily thrust under the water, and kept it in that position; but the younger woman powerfully resisted ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler
... so tremendously loud below were but muffled sounds at the pit's mouth; but, alas! these muffled sounds, and one flash of lurid flame that shot up into the air, told the tale of horror to every experienced pitman and his wife, and the cry of a whole village went up ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... Ossian peopled them; and, like a presiding spirit, his Image haunts the magnificent cliffs of our Lakes and Seas. And if he be, as every heart feels, the author of those noble Prose Works that continue to flash upon the world, to him exclusively belongs the glory of wedding Fiction and History in delighted union, and of embodying in imperishable records the manners, character, soul, and spirit of Caledonia; so that, if all her annals were ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com