Definition of Flash

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Definition of Flash

Flash

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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.

To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

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.

To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

To trick up in a showy manner.

To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

A pool.

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.

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Flash Quotations

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Jimi Hendrix

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Voltaire

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
Julie Andrews

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Charlotte Bronte

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
Travis Barker

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler

Flash Translations

flash in Dutch is flitsen, flikkeren, gloren
flash in French is clignoter, flash
flash in German is blinken, Blitz, aufleuchten, aufblitzen
flash in Italian is fulmine, scintillare
flash in Latin is mico
flash in Norwegian is blink, glimt, blinke
flash in Spanish is centella, lanzar destellos, llamarada
flash in Swedish is ljunga, blixt, blixtra

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