Idioms for 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
1350–1400; Middle English
flasshen to sprinkle, splash, earlier
flask(i)en; probably phonesthemic in orig.; compare similar expressive words with
fl- and
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SYNONYMS FOR flash
18
scintillate.
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.
40 flashy, gaudy, tawdry; pretentious, superficial.
42 false, fake.
OTHER WORDS FROM flash
flash·ing·ly, adverb out·flash, verb (used with object)Words nearby flash
flare-up,
flareback,
flares,
flareup,
flaring,
flash,
flash blindness,
flash burn,
flash card,
flash drive,
flash eliminator
Definition 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
Idioms and Phrases with flash
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