flash

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 flăsh

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
    — their hearts lie lumpish as a Log that lies in a flash of water seven years together
  2. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. countable,uncountable
    — Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."
  3. A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
  4. A very short amount of time. countable,uncountable
    — [F]or Empire and Greatneſs it importeth moſt, that a Nation do profeſs Arms as their principal Honour, Study and Occupation: […] The Fabrick of the State of Sparta was wholly (though not wiſely) framed and compoſed to that Scope and End. The Perſians and Macedonians had it for a flaſh. The Galls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others had it for a time.
  5. A flashlight; an electric torch. US,colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.
  6. A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — [B]reath his faults ſo quaintly, / That they may ſeeme the taints of liberty; / The flaſh and out-breake of a fiery minde, / A ſauagenes in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall aſſault.
  7. Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle. figuratively,uncountable
    — Above all, they hate flash. Just as the English working class has always been, they are fiercely puritanical and abhor all forms of display.
  8. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould. countable,uncountable
  9. The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders. Cockney,UK,countable,uncountable
  10. A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once. countable,uncountable
  11. A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class. countable,uncountable
  12. Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”). abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,countable,uncountable
  13. A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger. archaic,countable,uncountable
  14. A form of military insignia. countable,uncountable
    — I just got my first commando flash.
  15. Clipping of flash memory. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,uncountable
    — The hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files.
  16. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala. countable,uncountable
  17. A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo). countable,uncountable
  18. The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug. countable,uncountable
    — At three-thirty that afternoon Max, Tom, and Sharon placed tabs under their tongues and sat together in the living room to wait for the flash.
  19. Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”). countable,uncountable
    — I'd heard about LSD and wanted to try it early on, but I'd also heard of delayed reactions, called acid flashes, brought on by unexpected stimuli; they could prove fatally disorienting.
  20. A newsflash. countable,dated,uncountable
    — The United Press got the flash "Germans declare martial law in Ruhr" […]
  21. A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc). countable,uncountable
    — I didn't need them anymore. The police badge worked like a dream with both Alice and Kerry. One quick flash of the badge, and they were in the car and out of the rain. No questions asked.
  22. The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public. countable,uncountable
    — panty flash
  23. Ellipsis of hook flash. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. transitive
    — He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
  2. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. intransitive
    — The light flashed on and off.
  3. To be visible briefly. intransitive
    — The scenery flashed by quickly.
  4. To make visible briefly. transitive
    — A number will be flashed on the screen.
  5. To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.) ambitransitive,informal
    — She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.
  6. To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance. figuratively
    — For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its completion, that strong differences of opinion and feeling should cease to agitate the scenes on which freemen are called to discharge political duties.
  7. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
    — He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.
  8. To communicate quickly.
    — The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.
  9. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
    — Flash forward to the present day.
  10. To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. dated,transitive
    — Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
  11. To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.) intransitive
  12. To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt. transitive
  13. To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge). transitive
    — In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.
  14. To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour. transitive
  15. To expand (blown glass) into a disc. transitive
  16. To send by some startling or sudden means. transitive
  17. To burst out into violence. intransitive
  18. To perform a flash.
  19. To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
  20. To trick up in a showy manner. obsolete,transitive
    — Oft have I ſeaſoned ſavory periods / With ſugar'd words, to delude Guſtus' taſte, / And oft embelliſh'd my entreative phraſe, / Limning and flaſhing it with various dyes, / To draw proud Viſus to me by the eyes: […]
  21. To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. obsolete,transitive
    — The varlet ſaw, when to the flood he came, / How without ſtop or ſtay he fiercely lept, / And deep himſelfe beducked in the ſame, / That in the lake his loftie creſt was ſteept, / Ne of his ſafetie ſeemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely flaſhd / The waves about, and all his armour ſwept, / That all the bloud and filth away was waſht, / Yet ſtill he bet the water, and the billows daſht.
  22. To flash back.
    — Kevin, one of the first buddies in Boston lies calmly, very thin in the casket. I think of his face angrily making a point at a meeting or happily hosting his Christmas party. I flash to my father's wake and the "well-meaning" people who whispered about how awful he looked as I stood by watching, wanting to scream "What did you expect?"
形容词 adj.
  1. Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy. Australia,British,New-Zealand,slang
    — The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are, He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
  2. Having plenty of ready money. UK
  3. Liable to show off expensive possessions or money. UK
    — Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
  4. Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously. US,slang
  5. Relating to thieves and vagabonds. obsolete,slang
    — the flash language: thieves' cant or slang

词形变化

flashes present,singular,third-person flashing participle,present flashed participle,past flashed past flashes plural more flash comparative most flash superlative flashes plural

词汇关系

近义词
beep
衍生词
aflash flash around flashback flasher flash for cash flashforward flash forward flash-freeze flashing flashingly flashlight flash over flashover flash sideways flash the ash flash the cash flash up nonflashing outflash reflash unflashed unflashing upflash antiflash anti-flash arc flash autoflash backflash blue flash bootflash camera flash crown flash double-flash double flash eyebrow flash flashable flash back flash-ball flash bang flash-bang flashbar flash boiler flashbulb flash burn flash burner flash card flashcard flash crowd flashcrowd flashcube flash cube flash cut flashdamp flash disk flash door flash drive flash drought flashfic flash fiction flashfire flash flood flash flooding flash frame flash freezer flash freezing flash-fry flash fuel flash grenade flashgun flash gun flash house flash in the pan flash-lag effect flash-lag illusion flashlamp flashless flashlet flashlike flashline flash lock flashly flashman flash memory flash mob flashmob flash mobber flashness flash pack flashpacking flash pan flash paper flash photography flashpoint flash point flashpot flash powder flashproof flash rob flash roll flash sale flash suppressor flash test flash-to-bang time flashtube flashy flipflash green flash gunflash helium flash hot-flash hot flash in a flash microflash mitoflash multiflash news flash patter flash photoflash preflash quick as a flash radioflash ring flash side flash synchroflash thunderflash welder's flash xenon flash lamp flash wheel
相关词
flush gleam glimmer shimmer sparkle twinkle

词源

词源 1
In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).
词源 2
From Middle English flashe, flaske, also found as flosche and flushe (whence modern English flosh and flush), used in Middle and modern English for bodies of water with varying emphasis on them being "pools" or "marshes". It is not entirely clear whether these constitute a single term with varied spellings, or have distinct etymologies. The form flash, flashe is often suggested to be from Old French flache, French flaque, which is of Germanic origin, akin to Middle Dutch vlacke (“an estuary, flats with stagnant pools”). See flush for more on that form.
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