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Synonyms for flash

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Synonyms for flash

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for flash

a momentary brightness

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a short vivid experience

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a sudden brilliant understanding

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification

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a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

gleam or glow intermittently

appear briefly

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make known or cause to appear with great speed

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expose or show briefly

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protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal

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emit a brief burst of light

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All this had happened with such swiftness that I had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light.
All I could see was the blotch of shadow and the rainbow flashes, the dust rising from the invisible feet, the earth tearing up from beneath the straining foot-grips, and the wire screen bulge once or twice as their bodies hurled against it.
"But I cannot flash fire from my eyes unless I am very angry."
Seeing this, they all cried "Krizzle-Kroo!" together, and that made the beast's eyes flash fire so fiercely that the fence-board caught the sparks and began to smoke.
The little wisps of hair flashed again in the sunlight.
Trent's eyes flashed with anger, and his cheeks burned.
The flashes now came frequently, lighting up faces as if they were going to be photographed, surprising them in tense and unnatural expressions.
Now and again their faces became white, as the lightning flashed, and finally a terrific crash came, making the panes of the skylight lift at the joints.
A yellow light flashed across the blue window, and for a second they saw the green trees outside.
Flash dryers have witnessed considerable demand in the process industries such as minerals and chemical, owing to their application in the drying process.
[USPRwire, Wed Aug 28 2019] Hybrid Flash Storage Market: Overview The hybrid flash storage market has undergone significant maturation in last few years due to the transformation of the enterprise computing environment owing to the emergence of hyperscale cloud service providers.
Kelby, the author of photography technique books and the editor and publisher of a Photoshop magazine, shows photographers how to use a flash. He explains flash controls and settings, camera settings for working with flash, using flash for portraits and at weddings, using flash on location, lighting backgrounds, mounting a flash, flash tricks, and flash workflow.
Following the defeat of Reverse-Flash, the singularity created above Central City during their battle, brings forward new challenges for The Flash. Zoom, a serial killing meta-human, emerges from parallel universe Earth 2 and is hell-bent on stealing The Flash's powers to enhance his own.
"Writing Flash" takes the aspiring writer thorough the steps necessary for compressing a story to its most essential elements and make their writing vigorous, evocative, and full of emotion.
Since its inception, flash photography has been a subject of much interest to practitioners, especially to those usually (and derisively) called amateurs.