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Also see: light
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flash1
▶verb
- 1 shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way.
- 2 move, pass, or send very quickly: a look of terror flashed across his face.
- 3 display or be displayed briefly or repeatedly.
■ informal display conspicuously so as to impress: they flash their money about.
■ informal (of a man) show one's genitals in public.
- 4 (flash over) make an electric circuit by sparking across a gap.
- 1 a sudden brief burst of bright light.
- 2 a camera attachment that produces a flash of light, for taking photographs in poor light.
- 3 a sudden or brief manifestation or occurrence.
- 4 a bright patch of colour.
■ Brit. a coloured patch of cloth worn on a uniform as a distinguishing emblem.
- 5 (Flash) Computing (trademark in the US) an application used to produce animation sequences that can be viewed by a browser.
- 6 excess plastic or metal forced between facing surfaces as two halves of a mould close up.
- 7 a rush of water, especially down a weir to take a boat over shallows.
- 1 informal, chiefly Brit. ostentatiously stylish or expensive.
- 2 archaic relating to the language of criminals or prostitutes.
– phrases
flash in the pan a sudden but brief success that is unlikely to be repeated. [with allusion to the priming of a firearm, the flash arising from an explosion of gunpowder within the lock.]
flash in the pan a sudden but brief success that is unlikely to be repeated. [with allusion to the priming of a firearm, the flash arising from an explosion of gunpowder within the lock.]
– derivatives
flasher noun.
flasher noun.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flash2
▶noun Brit. a water-filled hollow formed by subsidence.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘a marshy place’): from OFr. flache, var. of Norman dial. flaque, from MDu. vlacke.

