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flash

English

🔊 tastelessly showy
“a flash car”
🔊 a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
🔊 a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
“red flashes adorned the airplane”
🔊 a momentary brightness
🔊 a sudden brilliant understanding
“he had a flash of intuition”
🔊 a short vivid experience
“a flash of emotion swept over him”
🔊 a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
🔊 a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
🔊 a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
“if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash”
🔊 a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
🔊 a gaudy outward display
🔊 appear briefly
“The headlines flashed on the screen”
🔊 emit a brief burst of light
“A shooting star flashed and was gone”
🔊 make known or cause to appear with great speed
“The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts”
🔊 protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
“flash the roof”
🔊 expose or show briefly
“he flashed a $100 bill”
🔊 gleam or glow intermittently
“The lights were flashing”
🔊 display proudly
“he showed off his new sports car”
🔊 run or move very quickly or hastily
“She dashed into the yard”