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(verb) appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen" |
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Related Words: appear |
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(verb) emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone." |
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Related Words: appear |
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(verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts" |
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Related Words: convey, impart |
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(verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal, as of parts of roofs |
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Related Words: cover |
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(verb) expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill" |
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Related Words: show |
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(verb) gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" |
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Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
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Related Words: emit light, flick, flicker, radiate |
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(noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph |
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Synonyms: flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun, photoflash |
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Related Words: lamp, photographic equipment |
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(noun) a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition" |
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Related Words: brainstorm, brainwave, insight |
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(noun) a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning" |
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Synonyms: flashing |
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Related Words: experience |
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(noun) a sudden intense burst of radiant energy |
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Related Words: corruscation, flicker, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glint, glitter, happening, heat flash, lightning, natural event, occurrence, spark, sparkle, streak |
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(verb) display proudly |
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Synonyms: flaunt, show off, swank |
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Related Words: display, exhibit, expose |
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(noun) a momentary brightness |
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Synonyms: glint |
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Related Words: brightness |
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(noun) a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate |
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Synonyms: flare |
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Related Words: Bengal light, Very light, star shell, visual signal |
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(noun) a very short time; "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" |
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Synonyms: New York minute, blink of an eye, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
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Related Words: bit, minute, moment, second |
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(satellite adjective) tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" |
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Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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(noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story |
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Synonyms: news bulletin, newsflash |
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Related Words: bulletin |
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(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" |
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Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
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Related Words: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, plunge, race, rush, rush along, speed |
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