flash

Definitions of flash in various dictionaries:

noun - a sudden intense burst of radiant energy

noun - a momentary brightness

noun - a short vivid experience

noun - a sudden brilliant understanding

noun - a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

noun - a gaudy outward display

noun - a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

noun - a short news an noun cement concerning some on-going news story

noun - a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification

noun - a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

verb - gleam or glow intermittently

verb - appear briefly

verb - display proudly

verb - make known or cause to appear with great speed

verb - run or move very quickly or hastily

verb - expose or show briefly

verb - protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal

verb - emit a brief burst of light

adj - tastelessly showy

To burst forth into or as if into flame.

To give off light or be lighted in sudden or intermittent bursts.

To appear or occur suddenly: The image flashed onto the screen.

To move or proceed rapidly: The cars flashed by.

To think of or remember something suddenly: flashed on that time we got caught in the storm.

To expose oneself in an indecent manner.

To cause (light) to appear suddenly or in intermittent bursts.

To cause to burst into flame.

To reflect (light).

To cause to reflect light from (a surface).

To make known or signal by flashing lights.

To communicate or display at great speed: flashed the news to the world capitals.

To exhibit briefly.

To display ostentatiously; flaunt.

To fill suddenly with water.

To cover with a thin protective layer.

A sudden, brief, intense display of light.

A sudden perception: a flash of insight.

A split second; an instant: I’ll be on my way in a flash.

A brief news dispatch or transmission.

Gaudy or ostentatious display: “The antique flash and trash of an older southern California have given way to a sleeker age of cultural hip” (Newsweek).

A flashlight.

Instantaneous illumination for photography: photograph by flash.

A device, such as a flashbulb, flashgun, or flash lamp, used to produce such illumination.

The pleasurable sensation that accompanies the use of a drug; a rush.

The language or cant of thieves, tramps, or underworld figures.

Happening suddenly or very quickly: flash freezing.

Ostentatious; showy: a flash car.

Of or relating to figures of quarterly economic growth released by the government and subject to later revision.

Of or relating to photography using instantaneous illumination.

These verb s mean to send forth light.

verb - to send forth a sudden burst of light