OTHER WORDS FOR flash
18 scintillate.
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Idioms about flash
- a brief, intense effort that produces no really significant result.
- a person who makes such an effort; one who enjoys short-lived success.
- to have a sudden thought, insight, or inspiration about.
- to have a sudden, vivid memory or mental picture of: I just flashed on that day we spent at the lake.
- to feel an instantaneous understanding and appreciation of.
flash in the pan,
flash on, Slang.
Origin of flash
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English flasshen “to sprinkle, splash,” earlier flask(i)en; probably phonesthemic in origin; compare similar expressive words with fl- and -sh
synonym study for flash
18. Flash, glance, glint, glitter mean to send forth a sudden gleam (or gleams) of bright light. To flash is to send forth light with a sudden, transient brilliancy: A shooting star flashed briefly. To glance is to emit a brilliant flash of light as a reflection from a smooth surface: Sunlight glanced from the glass windshield. Glint suggests a hard bright gleam of reflected light, as from something polished or burnished: Light glints from silver or from burnished copper. To glitter is to reflect intermittent flashes of light from a hard surface: Ice glitters in the moonlight.
OTHER WORDS FROM flash
flash·ing·ly, adverboutflash, verb (used with object)Words nearby flash
flare path, flares, flare star, flareup, flaring, flash, flashback, flash blindness, flashboard, flashbulb, flashbulb memory
Other definitions for flash (2 of 2)
FLASH
[ flash ]
/ flæʃ /
noun
a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
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British Dictionary definitions for flash
flash
/ (flæʃ) /
noun
adjective
verb
Word Origin for flash
C14 (in the sense: to rush, as of water): of unknown origin
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