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Adjective flash has 1 sense
- brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Antonyms: tasteful, in good taste (indirect, via tasteless)
Noun flash has 9 senses
- flash - a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
--1 is a kind of happening, occurrence, natural event
--1 has particulars:
- flash - a momentary brightness
--2 is a kind of brightness
- flash, flashing - a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"
--3 is a kind of experience
- flash - a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition"
--4 is a kind of insight, brainstorm, brainwave
- blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute - a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
--5 is a kind of moment, minute, second, bit
- flare, flash - a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
--6 is a kind of visual signal
--6 has particulars: star shell; Bengal light; Very light
- news bulletin, newsflash, flash, newsbreak - a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
--7 is a kind of bulletin
- flash - a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"
--8 is a kind of patch
- flash, photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb - a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
--9 is a kind of lamp; photographic equipment
--9 is a part of flash camera
Verb flash has 8 senses
- flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle - gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
--1 is one way to radiate
Sample sentences:
Lights flash on the horizon
The horizon is flashing with lights
- flash - appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen"
--2 is one way to appear
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank - display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"
--3 is one way to expose, exhibit, display
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- flash - make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"
--4 is one way to convey, impart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
--5 is one way to rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- flash - expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill"
--6 is one way to show
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- flash - protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the roof"
--7 is one way to cover
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- flash - emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone"
--8 is one way to appear
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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