flash
verb
[ flaʃ ]
• shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way.
• "lightning flashed overhead"
Similar:
light up,
shine,
flare,
blaze,
glare,
beam,
gleam,
glint,
sparkle,
spark,
burn,
fluoresce,
blink,
wink,
flicker,
shimmer,
twinkle,
glimmer,
glisten,
scintillate,
glister,
coruscate,
fulgurate,
effulge,
• move or pass very quickly.
• "a look of terror flashed across Kirov's face"
Similar:
zoom,
streak,
tear,
shoot,
dash,
dart,
fly,
whistle,
hurtle,
rush,
hurry,
bolt,
race,
bound,
speed,
career,
charge,
hare,
whizz,
whoosh,
buzz,
scoot,
skedaddle,
belt,
zap,
zip,
scorch,
bomb,
bucket,
burn rubber,
go like the clappers,
barrel,
lay rubber,
• display (information or an image) suddenly on a television or computer screen or electronic sign, typically briefly or repeatedly.
• "the screen flashed up a menu"
flash
noun
• a sudden brief burst of bright light.
• "a flash of lightning"
Similar:
flare,
blaze,
burst,
glare,
pulse,
blast,
gleam,
glint,
sparkle,
flicker,
shimmer,
twinkle,
glimmer,
beam,
shaft,
ray,
streak,
bar,
finger,
stream,
• a sudden or brief manifestation or occurrence of something.
• "she had a flash of inspiration"
Similar:
burst,
outbreak,
outburst,
wave,
rush,
surge,
stab,
flush,
blaze,
sudden show,
brief display/exhibition,
• a camera attachment that produces a brief very bright light, used for taking photographs in poor light.
• "an electronic flash"
• a platform for producing and displaying animation and video in web browsers.
• ostentatious stylishness or display of wealth.
• "workwear represents a move away from Eighties designer flash"
• excess plastic or metal forced between facing surfaces as two halves of a mould close up, forming a thin projection on the finished object.
• "flap wheels are ideal for grinding off fibreglass flash"
• a rush of water, especially down a weir to take a boat over shallows.
flash
adjective
• ostentatiously stylish or expensive.
• "a flash new car"
Similar:
ostentatious,
showy,
bold,
flamboyant,
conspicuous,
obtrusive,
extravagant,
expensive,
pretentious,
vulgar,
tasteless,
in bad/poor taste,
tawdry,
brash,
lurid,
garish,
loud,
gaudy,
crude,
trashy,
flashy,
snazzy,
nifty,
fancy,
bling,
swanky,
jazzy,
glitzy,
ritzy,
tacky,
fancy-pants,
naff,
kitsch,
Brummagem,
• relating to the language used by criminals or prostitutes.
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘splash water about’): probably imitative; compare with flush1 and splash.
flash
noun
• a water-filled hollow formed by subsidence, especially any of those due to rock salt extraction in or near Cheshire in central England.
• "sandpits and flashes also attract visiting birds"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘a marshy place’): from Old French flache, variant of Picard and Norman dialect flaque, from Middle Dutch vlacke . The current sense dates from the late 19th century.
in a flash
• very quickly; immediately.
• "she was out of the back door in a flash"
Similar:
instantly,
suddenly,
abruptly,
immediately,
instantaneously,
all of a sudden,
quickly,
rapidly,
swiftly,
speedily,
without delay,
in an instant,
in a moment,
in a (split) second,
in a minute,
in a trice,
like a shot,
straight away,
in a wink,
in the blink of an eye,
in the twinkling of an eye,
before you know it,
on the double,
at the speed of light,
like an arrow from a bow,
in a jiffy,
double quick,
in double quick time,
p.d.q. (pretty damn quick),
like (greased) lightning,
at warp speed,
