flash : Idioms & Phrases

• verb return in time
  cut back.
  
  • the film cut back to an earlier event in the story

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• noun a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
  photoflash; flashbulb; flash; flashgun; flash bulb.
  

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• noun butt welding by creating an electric arc between the two pieces which melts and joins them; used for joining segments of metal pipe
  flash butt welding.
  

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• noun a camera with a photoflash attachment
  

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• noun a card with words or numbers or pictures that is flashed to a class by the teacher
  flashcard.
  

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• noun a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
  flashflood.
  

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• a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.

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• noun someone who enjoys transient success but then fails
  

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• the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

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• noun a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
  photoflash; flashbulb; flash; flashgun; flash bulb.
  

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• a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight.

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• noun nonvolatile storage that can be electrically erased and programmed anew
  

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• noun point at which something is ready to blow up
  flashpoint.
  
• noun the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air
  flashpoint.
  

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• noun butt welding by creating an electric arc between the two pieces which melts and joins them; used for joining segments of metal pipe
  flash butt welding.
  

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• (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.

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• noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to a later event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
  

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• verb freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors
  quick-freeze.
  
  • quick-freeze the shrimp

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• adjective satellite (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
  quick-frozen; frozen.
  
  • frozen foods

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• . See Flashing, n., 3.

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• noun a flash of intense heat (as released by an atomic explosion)
  

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• noun sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
  flush.
  

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• adverb without any delay
  instantaneously; outright; instantly.
  
  • he was killed outright

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• noun something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc.
  

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• to fail of success. Colloq. See under Flash, a burst of light.

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• to talk in thieves' cant. Slang

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