FLASH


Meaning of FLASH in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a fit/flash/burst of temper (= when you are very angry for a short time )

A businessman assaulted his wife and son in a fit of temper, a court heard yesterday.

a flash of inspiration (= a sudden good idea )

A sudden flash of inspiration came to him.

a flash of light (= a bright light that appears suddenly for a very short time )

A flash of light caught his attention.

a flash of lightning/a lightning flash (= a sudden light from lightning )

Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder.

A series of lightning flashes crackled overhead.

a flash of lightning/a lightning flash (= a sudden light from lightning )

Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder.

A series of lightning flashes crackled overhead.

a flash/trace/touch of humour (= a very small amount of humour )

She replied with a rare flash of humour.

blinding flash

Suddenly, I had a blinding flash of inspiration.

blinding flash/light/glare etc

the desert with its strange twisted plants and its blinding light

flash a card (= show one very quickly )

He flashed his ID card at the guard and walked straight in.

flash bulb

flash drive

flash memory

flash sb a grin (= smile quickly at someone )

Flashing me a grin over her shoulder, she got into the car.

flash (sb) a smile (= give a quick smile )

She flashed him a smile.

lightning flashes

Lightning flashed in the sky, and there was a loud crash of thunder.

Quick as a flash (= very quickly )

Quick as a flash she replied, ‘That’s not what I’ve heard!’

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

across

Her eyes flashed across to the clock once again.

Newscasts of the chaotic minutes after the attack flash across nine video monitors.

A D-V flashed across , firing and missing.

back

Isabel's eyes flashed back to his face.

When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.

Nonsense, flashed back Jack Sandner, the chairman of Chicago's Merc.

She flashed back to her discussion with Ted Wilkinson, reliving every moment in her mind.

I flashed back in a friendly way and we fled.

Little kids' grins flashed back at me: yes!

My mind flashed back to those nights in Marcus Small Ward.

Suddenly something she had heard her daddy read out from a newspaper flashed back to her.

by

But the days flash by in a blur.

Maybe it was the swirling water, or a bird that flashed by .

Larger animals which are not subject to the whims of wind and current may flash by or come closer for a brief look.

Perhaps life was flashing by like a tape player speeded up.

The Envi poster flashed by , the woman's face laughing at me.

The shunting stopped and movement began to slow, the whiteness of the sign South Kensington flashed by .

Just a glance, flashing by , but I have time to see the accusation and hurt.

on

It's getting dark, so the lights look extra pretty, flashing on and off.

The light in the front room flashed on .

It's a big white ambulance with a blue light on top, flashing on and off.

Lights flashing on and off in my head.

He walked towards the entrance; a fancy airlock system over which a large illuminated sign flashed on and off.

Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind.

Dials and switches flashed on and off.

A red light flashed on , but there was no apparent sound.

past

A tearful itch tickled my lids as spoked hangovers flashed past .

Had others pitied me as they flashed past .

The decades would soon flash past and, in these harsh commercial days, time matters.

up

A friendly palm flashes up from the shadows, like a pink glove.

A Hindu deity with many arms flashes up on the screen.

Its red hour-glass flashed up at him as the spider swirled in the motion of the water.

Posi gave the warning - spacecraft approaching - and the screens flashed up the images.

The blade flashed up and down.

You half expect judges to flash up scores by way of a finale.

The screen flashed up a weapons menu, requesting operator input.

But it'd flashed up like neon in my head once or twice since then: Warning.

■ NOUN

brain

Her body seemed determined to ignore the danger signals now at last flashing through her brain .

A video screen flashes scans of the brain .

card

William Yes.. He flashes a card .

Returning workers flashed special identification cards issued by the union and walked in.

Eyes averted, coins clanked into the tin, there was no need to flash the identity card .

In all the confusion Guy Sterne had calmly flashed a credit card and whisked her away.

I flashed my supermarket loyalty card and was in.

When you flashed the Repo Man card I thought we'd been infiltrated.

They said that they were police and flashed white cards .

face

The image of his face flashed past and together with it all the days of early summer, Jubilee summer.

fire

He threw it into a nearby fire , where it flashed brilliantly.

glance

Zak flashed a glance at the crew, saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign.

She, who knew me well, understood and flashed a warning glance at me.

Lucy flashed a startled glance at him.

grin

Miller, obviously in charge, flashed a knowing grin .

Karen looks back and flashes a big grin .

image

The image of his face flashed past and together with it all the days of early summer, Jubilee summer.

I sat down in the chair across from her and an image flashed into my mind.

Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind.

life

Perhaps life was flashing by like a tape player speeded up.

One's whole life did flash before one's eyes at the moment of death.

Her life had just flashed past her eyes and wasn't it dull?

light

It's a big white ambulance with a blue light on top, flashing on and off.

Several dozen phone lights flashed continually on our telephone boards.

The furious lights would flash past and we would move into the middle again.

The sunlight struck the silver-plated candlesticks on the sideboard and sent stilettos of light flashing through the room.

With sirens wailing and blue lights flashing the red fire engine sped through the city.

When the lights are flashing the modem is receiving data; when they are dull the modem is in waiting.

Upon the dashboard of a black Cadillac sedan parked in a nearby side-road a green light began to flash furiously.

A string of colored Christmas lights flashed like jewels.

lightning

The elements seemed very awesome. Lightning flashed again, brilliant as a fluorescent light.

More lightning flashed overhead, followed by loud thunder.

The lightning flashed again, but he was turning; the mutilated corpse was at the edge of his vision.

Duvall moved forward to fire again, but Rohmer held his arm - pulling him back. Lightning flashed outside again.

look

But spirited Patsy flashed a look of encouragement at him.

She flashed me a look of astonishment.

Ma flashes Pa an amazed look .

I flashed the Monster a look of triumph and waited for the attention to begin.

message

We go home at night to our hotel room, and the light on the phone is flashing with 50 more messages .

Glover thought he saw eyes flash out the clear message that he could stick this clipping up his wazoo.

These flashed their electric message through intervening night.

mind

My mind flashed back to those nights in Marcus Small Ward.

screen

As Britta watched, one of the three screens flashed blinding white as one of the three Counsellors was hit.

A video screen flashes scans of the brain.

Posi gave the warning - spacecraft approaching - and the screens flashed up the images.

Many seemed resigned to defeat as two huge television screens flashed the grim news from East Coast precincts.

Radar screens began flashing at the U. S. Capitol.

The screen flashed up a weapons menu, requesting operator input.

sign

The shunting stopped and movement began to slow, the whiteness of the sign South Kensington flashed by.

He walked towards the entrance; a fancy airlock system over which a large illuminated sign flashed on and off.

His shiny shoes pounded the sidewalks, and neon signs flashed the names of increasingly seedy nightclubs at him.

Warning signs began to flash that abuses could occur in the police investigation of serious crime.

But the warning signs are flashing before the league gets under way next week.

smile

Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier; the security man's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile .

The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.

The engine fired on the fourth kick and he flashed her a victorious smile .

She flashes a crooked smile , the one she says makes her look like Popeye the Sailor.

Back on the ship afterwards, she flashed the smile one more time - and then whisked away to her own cabin.

Tia Flor confides to Yolanda, flashing her famous smile .

Catching Stella watching him he flashed her an extravagant smile .

He hands them over, and you flash an uncomfortable smile .

tooth

She had scarcely finished clapping enthusiastically when she found him next to her, smiling and flashing his pearl-white teeth .

Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft, walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers.

She flashed her teeth at me.

torch

When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches .

Blagg had tried a brief smile when Maxim flashed the torch on himself for identification, but didn't speak.

He flashed his torch up on to the walls and had another look at the barbed wire.

Up in the bows, one of the bureaucrats flashed a torch twice, waited five seconds and repeated the signal.

At intervals I wandered round the camp, flashing my powerful torch into the darkness.

warning

A sudden hiss came from the radiator and simultaneously the overheating signal on the dash flashed a warning red.

She, who knew me well, understood and flashed a warning glance at me.

Drivers are flashed a warning if their vehicles break an infra-red beam projected across the road.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

go/run/flash etc through sb's mind

I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .

Over and over it ran through his mind .

Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .

The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.

The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.

The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.

This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .

Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A police car sped through the intersection, lights flashing.

Detective Mallory flashed his badge as he walked through the door.

He flashed his membership card as passed through the door.

Lightning flashed across the sky.

Lightning flashed and thunder rolled.

Two police officers burst in, the latter hurriedly flashing his ID card at her as they made their way upstairs.

Why did that guy flash his headlights at me?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He remembers thinking in amazement that his name also was being flashed on screens in thousands of other movie theaters.

If it flashes heavily, turn it down.

It's like she flashed a bright light in my eyes, and I have to look away.

Muskets were swung as clubs, pistols were fired point-blank, and swords flashed and clanged.

Returning workers flashed special identification cards issued by the union and walked in.

When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

blinding

Full awareness and memory returned in a blinding flash .

In a blinding flash , everything fell into place.

We'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash .

She was aware of a blinding flash of pain as he mastered her, and groaned weakly.

But something was telling her it was no slip - and then, in a blinding flash , she knew!

brief

There was a brief flash of white that could have been Faith, then nothing.

Theatrical characters are designed to be interpreted, but only in the brief flashes of performance.

As he left she caught a brief flash of sapphire from his head.

He enjoyed the brief flash of jealousy and the home comforts.

bright

Straightaway I went off and had a bright red flash put in across the front of my hair.

As they walked upstairs, there was a bright flash of lightning outside, followed by loud thunder.

Chen stood up, a cry coming to his lips as he saw the bright flash of a knife being drawn.

brilliant

The witnesses would say later that the searingly brilliant white flash seemed to last for several seconds.

Over 20, 000 residents are awakened by a brilliant flash of light and heat to find their city in flames.

Then, when it is all over ... Out of the darkness there came a single brilliant flash .

The brilliant flash of wing colours in the Butterfly House are alone worth a visit.

The water poured off the roofs in torrents, and thunderstorms rent the night skies with brilliant flashes of lightning.

hot

As annoying as hot flashes may be, remember that menopause is a temporary condition.

Credited with everything from obliterating hot flashes to relieving pain, soy is one of the current health-media darlings.

If one of us goes through menopause, we all suffer a collective hot flash .

Estrogen replacement relieves such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats, reduces bone loss and relieves vaginal dryness.

But besides estrogen therapy there are no medical therapies known to stop the hot flashes and improve sleep.

Sleeping pills are not recommended for women who awake because of hot flashes .

occasional

Both men fired repeatedly, guided by the occasional flash of a rifle ahead of them.

It never happened, despite occasional flashes and poignant near-misses.

Mark Bassey on trombone and lain Dixon on reeds Punchy and cogent music, with occasional flashes of humour.

A slight breeze picks up and you see only occasional flashes of distant lightning that still illuminate the whole sky.

Speelman has the reputation of being a very solid player with occasional flashes of mercurial originality and brilliance.

quick

The days of numbing despair had been reduced to quick flashes of temper that Duvall always managed to calm.

sudden

She had a sudden flash of a daydream.

Nick spotted it by the sudden flash of light on its chassis, then put it from his mind.

I can knit, thought Leonora with a sudden flash of self-knowledge.

Three hours' extremely cold and tedious observation had been ruined by the sudden flash of this light several years earlier.

A sudden flash of annoyance went through him.

white

The witnesses would say later that the searingly brilliant white flash seemed to last for several seconds.

At that moment, there came a terrible white flash , brighter than the Sun, which temporarily blinded me.

■ NOUN

lightning

As I found out later, a metal necklace he was wearing had taken the full brunt of the lightning flash .

In the distance I can hear the rumble of thunder and see lightning flash from cloud to cloud.

Friend's triumph flared like a lightning flash .

I see those lightning flashes again, colors striking.

Thunder rolled up from his chest, and lightning flashes glittered in his eyes.

It was like that endless moment, Sabine thought, between the lightning flash and the first crackle of thunder.

This fortuitous cooperation of lightning flashes and motor car exhausts was producing results in fairly populated areas at night.

news

Important deaths come in special news flashes , or as the first item, not at the end.

This is not a news flash to the twins.

A radio playing somewhere was interrupted by a news flash .

■ VERB

blind

The captain and rear admiral, viewing the aircraft-launching operations from the island, are blinded by the flash .

The onlookers, blinded by the flash , burned by its searing heat, covered their eyes and cringed in terror.

A blinding flash illuminated the darkness, and the terrible discharge of musketry resounded through the woods.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a flash of lightning

There was a bright flash of light as the bomb exploded.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As annoying as hot flashes may be, remember that menopause is a temporary condition.

I think people thought in the beginning I was going to be a flash in the pan, like Tiny Tim.

If one of us goes through menopause, we all suffer a collective hot flash .

The mints must be hard and dry for the best results and some produce, as I have seen, impressive flashes.

The muzzle flash that accompanied their arrival came from inside the house.

When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we'd better go now!

With a terrible flash that all but blinded the onlookers the island vanished, around it the storm of magical energy.

III. adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Flash fires swept through the Los Angeles foothills last night.

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