flash
闪光,闪存,闪现,闪电
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Definitions
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- : a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- : a sudden, brief outburst or display of joy, wit, etc.
- : a very brief moment; instant: I'll be back in a flash.
- : Informal. flashlight.
- : superficial, meretricious, or vulgar showiness; ostentatious display.
- : Journalism. news flash.
- : Photography. bright artificial light thrown briefly upon a subject during an exposure.flash lamp. flashbulb. flashtube.
- : the sudden flame or intense heat produced by a bomb or other explosive device.
- : a sudden thought, insight, inspiration, or vision.
- : Slang. rush.
- : Metallurgy. a ridge of metal left on a casting by a seam between parts of the mold.a ridge formed at the edge of a forging or weld where excess metal has been squeezed out.
- : Poker. a hand containing all five suits in a game played with a five-suit pack.
- : a device, as a lock or sluice, for confining and releasing water to send a boat down a shallow stream.
- : the rush of water thus produced.
- : hot flash.
- : Obsolete. the cant or jargon of thieves, vagabonds, etc.
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- : to break forth into sudden flame or light, especially transiently or intermittently: a buoy flashing in the distance.
- : to gleam.
- : to burst suddenly into view or perception: The answer flashed into his mind.
- : to move like a flash.
- : to speak or behave with sudden anger, outrage, or the like: to flash out at a stupid remark.
- : to break into sudden action.
- : Slang. to open one's clothes and expose the genitals suddenly, and usually briefly, in public.
- : Slang. to experience the intense effects of a narcotic or stimulant drug.
- : to dash or splash, as the sea or waves.
- : Archaic. to make a flash or sudden display.
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- : to emit or send forth in sudden flashes.
- : to cause to flash, as powder by ignition or a sword by waving.
- : to send forth like a flash.
- : to communicate instantaneously, as by radio or telegraph.
- : to make an ostentatious display of: He's forever flashing a large roll of bills.
- : to display suddenly and briefly: She flashed her ID card at the guard.
- : to change instantly into steam by pouring or directing onto a hot surface.
- : to increase the flow of water in.
- : Glassmaking and Ceramics. to coat with a layer of colored, opalescent, or white glass.to apply.to color or make opaque by reheating.
- : Building Trades. to protect from leakage with flashing.
- : Cards. to expose in the process of dealing.
- : Archaic. to dash or splash.
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- : happening suddenly and usually lasting a short time:a flash storm.
- : very brief, fast, or short: flash freezing of vegetables;flash poetry and fiction.
- : showy or ostentatious.
- : caused by or used as protection against flash from an explosive device: flash injuries; flash clothing.
- : counterfeit or sham.
- : Computers. relating to or using flash memory: a flash drive.
- : of or relating to followers of boxing, racing, etc.
- : Obsolete. belonging to or connected with thieves, vagabonds, etc., or their cant or jargon.
Phrases
- flash in the pan
- in a flash
- quick as a wink (flash)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In one 2009 experiment, college students studied vocabulary words with flash cards.
The darkening outlook of banks is laid bare by disclosures on so-called criticized loans, which are flashing warning signals about a borrower’s ability to pay.
Plus its flash technology allows upgrades to future software versions so you won’t have to continually invest in new calculators.
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When I briefly regained consciousness, it was to flashing police and ambulance lights and what felt like an entire roll of paper towels pressed on my face.
The idea that January 1st initiates a period of new beginning is not a flash of Hallmark brilliance.
Afterward, you can actually see her young career flash before her eyes as she makes a kind of puffed up blowfish face.
In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.
Cops launched a flash grenade through the window and officer Joseph Weekley fired, fatally striking Stanley-Jones.
The grasp on the sabre would tighten; the quiet eyes would flash.
The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
If those jaspers flash any part of the roll in the Territory before snowfall, I'll get them.
He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.