Find the word definition

Crossword clues for flashbulb

The Collaborative International Dictionary
flashbulb

flashbulb \flash"bulb`\ n. a lamp for providing intense momentary light to take a photograph.

Syn: flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun.

Wiktionary
flashbulb

alt. (context historical photography English) A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph. n. (context historical photography English) A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.

WordNet
flashbulb

n. a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph [syn: flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flash bulb]

Wikipedia
Flashbulb

Flashbulb may refer to:

  • Flash (photography)
  • The Flashbulb, one of the pseudonyms of electronica musician Benn Jordan
  • "Flashbulb", a bonus track by Nirvana

Usage examples of "flashbulb".

The flashbulb bleached the night bright white for one instant, and the witch paused, shrieking again, this time painfully, her eyes squeezed shut.

I gave an inward groan and hightailed it into the club, but not before one of the photographers managed to blind me with a flashbulb explosion from his Speed Graphic.

My entrance stirred up the fourth estaters, and once more I got blinded by a flashbulb going off.

The photographer burned up another flashbulb to get that image, kneeling right in front of her.

But the glare of the flashbulb shone on her back, and I saw that her shadow would have masked Sam Francis completely.

Charley, Earl joined the maid and Maude in the hunt for flashbulbs, which Slotkin had thrown everywhere.

My retreat took me straight into a gaggle of reporters, and without warning at least three flashbulbs went off in my face.

He looked around the room and wondered what snapshots the flashbulbs of Warsaw would take.

Plus I was practically rendered blind by all the flashbulbs going off in front of my face.

Anyway, I was pretty happy about this, because who needs the press around, yelling questions and setting off flashbulbs in your face?

When they were spent, I took the cubed four-corner flashbulbs and passed them from hand to hand until they cooled.

Photographers were already documenting the scene, and Kevin's blood looked black in the afterburn of flashbulbs.

Vincenti had a brief glimpse of a small flash of light inside the cargo bay, like a flashbulb or the muzzle blast of a rifle, followed immediately by a huge explosion that completely obscured the main airport terminal and effectively blinded the veteran fighter pilot.

He also had a canvas ditty bag loaded with film packs and flashbulbs hanging from his shoulder.

Will saw a billion flashbulbs explode, then suck to darkness while the unseen darning-needle insect out beyond somewhere pranced and fizzed like insect drawn to sun-warmed honeypot, as closeted voice stitched off their senses forever and a day beyond.