flash meaning
EN
[flæʃ] [flaʃ] [-æʃ] 
US WFlash
- Flash may refer to:
FR flash 
- NounPLflashes
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class; for example, Ebonics.
- A very short amount of time.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (US, colloquial) A flashlight or electric torch.
- A light used for photography - a shortened form of camera flash.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
- A pool.
- (engineering) 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.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- VerbSGflashesPRflashingPT, PPflashed
- To briefly illuminate a scene.
- He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- The light flashed on and off.
- To be visible briefly.
- The scenery flashed by quickly.
- To make visible briefly.
- A number will be flashed on the screen.
- The special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building.
- (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.
- To communicate quickly.
- The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.
- to flash a message along the telephone wires; to flash conviction on the mind
- (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body or underwear, or part of it, in public. (Contrast streak.).
- Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- Flash forward to the present day.
- (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To trick up in a showy manner.
- To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. See Flash evaporation.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To briefly illuminate a scene.
- AdjectiveCOMmore flashSUPmost flash
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- His poeticized version of a news flash about the advent of AIDS (the disease that killed his mother) electrifies, as it should, like unexpected lightning.
- Watching Newstopia, I was cacking up - they kept flashing pictures of dracula during every item about the pope!
- James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of flash in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
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- Ergative verbs
- Adjectives
- fr flash
- en flashed
- en flashing
- en flashlight
- fr flasher
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "flash" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.