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Meanings of flash in English
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
Catalan
flash A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph.
Catalan
notícia d'última hora Synonyms
Examples for "flashbulb"
Examples for "flashbulb"
1
I'd just had an idea that was as bright as a flashbulb.
2
Lightning splintered the sky like a flashbulb going off in her face.
3
Then he held it to his chest and the flashbulb popped.
4
She backs away, flashbulb movements broadcasting every kink in her DNA.
5
A plain-clothes cop began to take pictures, his flashbulb popping again and again.
1
He did not employ a flashgun but used all the available room light.
2
But with film or pixels, a flashgun is a harsh and ugly thing.
3
Main Street was lit as if by a flashgun.
4
Ever thrown a set of charged batteries into a flashgun only to find them empty?
5
He screwed on the flashgun, checked his film supply, then moved out to the field itself.
1
For one photoflash of an instant, the field was illuminated.
2
A bright photoflash suddenly lit the landing above me.
3
For groups examined at shock levels above 100 V, the foot shock was so potent that a photoflash was ineffective in producing RA.
1
The base is made to take in an electric flash lamp battery.
2
For just an instant a flash lamp had lighted up the darkness!
3
Wheeling like a flash , Tom Reade produced the pocket flash lamp.
4
With an electric flash lamp in one hand and the rubber hose in the other, Bruce stood watching.
5
With his left hand he held an electric pocket flash lamp, whose rays he flashed into the dark places.
1
She bent down and kissed him and the flash bulb went off.
2
The White House photographer says that all the Republican candidates grin more or less automatically at the sight of a flash bulb.
3
I'm about to say something intended to take the place of a witty reply when the rearview mirror lights up like a flash bulb.
4
Sidewalk trees, storefronts, and a bonanza of billboards are adazzle with flashing bulbs.
5
It applauded wildly every time the flash bulbs went off.
Usage of flash in English
1
Water flowing underground News flash: scientists say there's water in Wellington Harbour.
2
The Fiji Met Service said heavy rain may lead to flash flooding.
3
They were given a new sense of urgency after the flash crash.
4
I picked my way toward the point where I'd seen the flash.
5
In another flash of lightning, he saw clearly: the car was gone.
6
Soon afterward, a flash and howl spoke eloquently of interesting events outside.
7
The powerful cyclone brought widespread disruption to the area including flash flooding.
8
Quite frankly, Gender Violence is only ever treated as a flash-point issue.
9
Very fierce relationships form and then they're gone; it's almost a flash.
10
Of course we're all experts in how this flash of history unfolded.
11
Suddenly in the blackness a flash, and in the silence a sound.
12
That flash of hope disappeared almost as soon as it arrived, though.
13
A flash of the former terror stirred in the depths of him.
14
The opening of the roof revealed the whole scheme in a flash.
15
We saw the mirror-like flash of the blades in the morning sun.
16
Time will tell if structured reality is a flash in the pan.
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Translations for flash
Russian
Spanish
Flash through the time
Flash across language varieties
Canada
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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