Flashname

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.

  • Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos.
  • Flash games are ever so popular on the Web. As the capabilities of the Flash Player continue to improve, better and more powerful games can be built.

Flashname

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  Any of various DC Comics superheroes who have the power of superspeed, derived from an energy called the Speed Force.

flashverb詞源 1/flæʃ/

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  To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.

  • He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
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  To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.

  • The light flashed on and off.
  • Eugenie's quick apprehensions seized the foul thought. Her eyes flashed—her cheek crimsoned.
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  To be visible briefly.

  • The scenery flashed by quickly.
  • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
• 4

  To make visible briefly.

  • A number will be flashed on the screen.
  • The special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building.
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  informalTo expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)

  • She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.
  • Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.
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  To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.

  • For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its completion, that strong differences of opinion and feeling should cease to agitate the scenes on which freemen are called to discharge political duties.
  • But while he jested thus, / A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. / Remembering how we three presented Maid, / Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast, / In masque or pageant at my father's court.
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  To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.

  • He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.
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  To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.

  • I knew he was serious when he flashed a Bloods sign.

flashnoun詞源 1/flæʃ/

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  A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.

  • Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."
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  A very short amount of time.

  • [F]or Empire and Greatneſs it importeth moſt, that a Nation do profeſs Arms as their principal Honour, Study and Occupation: […] The Fabrick of the State of Sparta was wholly (though not wiſely) framed and compoſed to that Scope and End. The Perſians and Macedonians had it for a flaſh. The Galls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others had it for a time.
  • Quick—something must be done! done in a flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.
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  A flashlight; an electric torch.

  • I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.
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  A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.

  • [B]reath his faults ſo quaintly, / That they may ſeeme the taints of liberty; / The flaſh and out-breake of a fiery minde, / A ſauagenes in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall aſſault.
  • I cannot learn that he [Patrick Henry] gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius. His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy, no remarkable beauty or strength of expression; and no indication, however slight, either of that impassioned love of liberty, or of that adventurous daring and intrepidity, which marked, so strongly, his future character.
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  Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.

  • Above all, they hate flash. Just as the English working class has always been, they are fiercely puritanical and abhor all forms of display.
  • Another pleasant surprise of She-Devil is director Susan Seidelman's infusion of political moxie into the movie, a departure from her tendency to dish out lots of flash with little substance.
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  Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.

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  The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.

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  artshobbiesjugglingA pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.

flashadj詞源 1/flæʃ/

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  slangExpensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.

  • The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are, He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
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  Having plenty of ready money.

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  Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.

  • Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
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  slangOccurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.

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  obsoleteslangRelating to thieves and vagabonds.

  • the flash language: thieves' cant or slang
  • flash notes: counterfeit banknotes

flashnoun詞源 2/flæʃ/

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  A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)

  • their hearts lie lumpish as a Log that lies in a flash of water seven years together
  • The […] woods, commons, ponds, 'flashes,' bogs, 'damp spots,' and ditches are, when the number and rarity of some of the species are taken into account, the richest botanical ground in Lincolnshire;
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  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA 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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