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A sudden brilliant understanding
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flash
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy , cheap , flashy , garish , gaudy , gimcrack , loud , meretricious , tacky ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sudden rush of water," 1660s, earlier "watery place or marsh, a swamp" (c.1400; in place names from c.1300), of uncertain origin or connection to flash (n.1); perhaps from Old French flache , from Middle Dutch vlacke . Flash flood is from 1940.
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In toss juggling , a flash is either a form of numbers juggling where each ball in a juggling pattern is only thrown and caught once or it is a juggling trick where every prop is simultaneously in the air and both hands are empty. The former is considered ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flash \Flash\, n. Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
Usage examples of flash.
The artillery attempted to unlimber and to bring their guns to bear again, but the confusion that prevailed in the crowded spot rendered this next to impossible, and long before it could be accomplished the iron hail again swept through the ranks, and two rattling volleys from their invisible foes behind the flanking abattis again flashed out.
Deputy Dave Saunders had an iron grip on the wheel and a determined set in his jaw as he drove his squad car through Abney, lights flashing, and veered onto Service Road 221.
Or what a terrorist might carry, some soft-eyed boy from Adana, slung over his shoulder, Kalashnikov, sweet whisper in the dark, with a flash suppressor and folding stock.
And herself, swifter than the flash of an eye or the shafts of the sun, when it rises upwards from a far-distant land, hastened swiftly through the sea, until she reached the Aeaean beach of the Tyrrhenian mainland.
Four men with Bull Pups aimed the 20mm lasered airburst rounds at the muzzle flashes in the darkness.
Small boys came running to roadsides to watch the lines of riders all ajingle on their tall chargers, the pennons fluttering at the sparkling steel tips of the long, polished lances of ashwood, sunbeams flashing from plumed helmets, cuirasses and hilts of sabers and dirks.
The idea flashed through my mind that it might be Hassan of Aleppo himself, Hassan who had predicted that the stolen slipper should that day be returned to the Museum!
Cameras flashed from all around the room as parents acted to preserve the moment.
FLASH priority, addressee USS Allentown, currently orbiting in the VACAPES OPAREA.
OFF severmorsk naval complex USS allentown As the radioman handed Commander Henry Duckett the flash message, he felt the eyes of the crewmen on him, awaiting word to launch the Javelins.
Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.
That flashed on altars died away in dark, And when the flowers, with all their perfumed breath And beauteous bloom, lie withered on the shrine.
She flashed a quick glance at Andi to see if she was being supportive.
The ankylosaur turned and turned in her pen as the arc welders flashed and hissed and snapped.
It was then that he first noticed the anomalies in the Parthalonian landscape, as its familiar beauty flashed by below him.