Noun
a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

Noun
a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"

Noun
a momentary brightness

Noun
a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition"

Noun
a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

Noun
a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

Noun
a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"

Noun
a sudden intense burst of radiant energy

Noun
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I''d do it in a flash"

Verb
appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen"

Verb
emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone"

Verb
make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"

Verb
protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the roof"

Verb
run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"

Verb
expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill"

Verb
display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"

Verb
gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"

Adjective S.
tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

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

v. i.
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.

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

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

v. t.
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.

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

n.
To trick up in a showy manner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

a.
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.

n.
Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

n.
A pool.

n.
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

Flash , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flashed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flashing.] [Cf. OE. flaskien, vlaskien to pour, sprinkle, dial. Sw. flasa to blaze, E. flush, flare.] 1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. 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.

Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unumbered struggles.

The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.

A thought floashed through me, which I clothed in act.

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

Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other.

To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett. Syn. -- Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister. Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.

Flash

Flash , v. t. 1. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames.

2. 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. 3. (Glass Making) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b). 4. To trick up in a showy manner.

Limning and flashing it with various dyes.

5. [Perh. due to confusion between flash of light and plash, splash.] To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.]

He rudely flashed the waves about.

Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

Flash

Flash, n.; pl. Flashes . 1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning. 2. A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.

No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.

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

The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.

4. A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors. Flash light, ∨ Flashing light, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

Flash

Flash, a. 1. Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery. 2. 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. Flash house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.

Flash

Flash, n. Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

Flash

Flash, n. [OE. flasche, flaske; cf. OF. flache, F. flaque.] 1. A pool. [Prov. Eng.] Haliwell. 2. (Engineering) 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. Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.

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

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

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

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

Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

A pool.