flash : Idioms & Phrases
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- flash back
- flash bulb
- flash butt welding
- flash camera
- flash card
- flash flood
- Flash house
- Flash in the pan
- flash lamp
Flash light , ∨Flashing light - flash memory
- flash point
- flash welding
- Flash wheel
- flash-forward
- flash-freeze
- flash-frozen
- Flashed glass
- heat flash
- hot flash
- in a flash
- shoulder flash
- To flash in the pan
- To patter flash
flash back
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verb return in time
cut back.
- the film cut back to an earlier event in the story
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flash bulb
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noun a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
photoflash; flashbulb; flash; flashgun; flash bulb.
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flash butt welding
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noun butt welding by creating an electric arc between the two pieces which melts and joins them; used for joining segments of metal pipe
flash butt welding.
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flash camera
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noun a camera with a photoflash attachment
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flash card
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noun a card with words or numbers or pictures that is flashed to a class by the teacher
flashcard.
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flash flood
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noun a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
flashflood.
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Flash house
- a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.
Webster 1913
Flash in the pan
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noun someone who enjoys transient success but then fails
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- the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.
Webster 1913
flash lamp
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noun a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
photoflash; flashbulb; flash; flashgun; flash bulb.
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Flash light , ∨ Flashing light
- a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight.
Webster 1913
flash memory
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noun nonvolatile storage that can be electrically erased and programmed anew
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flash point
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noun point at which something is ready to blow up
flashpoint.
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noun the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air
flashpoint.
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flash welding
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noun butt welding by creating an electric arc between the two pieces which melts and joins them; used for joining segments of metal pipe
flash butt welding.
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Flash wheel
(Mech.) , a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.
Webster 1913
flash-forward
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noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to a later event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
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flash-freeze
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verb freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors
quick-freeze.
- quick-freeze the shrimp
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flash-frozen
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adjective satellite (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
quick-frozen; frozen.
- frozen foods
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Flashed glass
- . See
Flashing , n., 3.
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heat flash
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noun a flash of intense heat (as released by an atomic explosion)
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hot flash
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noun sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
flush.
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in a flash
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adverb without any delay
instantaneously; outright; instantly.
- he was killed outright
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shoulder flash
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noun something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc.
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To flash in the pan
- to fail of success. Colloq. See under
Flash , a burst of light.
Webster 1913
To patter flash
- to talk in thieves' cant. Slang