What's the difference between communicate and flash?

Communicate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To share in common; to participate in.
  • (v. i.) To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
  • (v. i.) To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
  • (v. i.) To administer the communion to.
  • (v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
  • (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
  • (v. i.) To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
  • (v. i.) To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
  • (3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (4) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
  • (5) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
  • (6) Their best evaluations were in medical care, personal attributes and communication.
  • (7) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
  • (8) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
  • (9) So we’ve just stopped communicating now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Damaged buildings in Kommunar.
  • (10) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
  • (11) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
  • (12) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
  • (13) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (14) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
  • (15) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
  • (16) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
  • (17) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
  • (18) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
  • (19) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
  • (20) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.

Flash


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
  • (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
  • (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
  • (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
  • (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
  • (n.) To trick up in a showy manner.
  • (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
  • (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
  • (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
  • (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
  • (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
  • (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
  • (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
  • (n.) A pool.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
  • (2) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.
  • (3) 'frequent' and probability of 'rare' flashes was 20%.
  • (4) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (5) The flash visually evoked cortical potential (VECP) was recorded in 18 human albinos.
  • (6) The mixed-valence-state cytochrome oxidase mixed with O2 at -24 degrees C and flash-photolysed at -60 to -100 degrees C reacts with O2 and initially forms an oxy compound (A2) similar to that formed from the fully reduced state (A1).
  • (7) Dementia produced a slowing of the major positive (P2) component of the flash VEP but did not affect the latency of the flash P1 component or the P100 pattern-reversal component.
  • (8) We have investigated the relationship between rhodopsin photochemical function and the retinal rod outer segment (ROS) disk membrane lipid composition using flash photolysis techniques.
  • (9) The signal recovers rapidly (approximately 90 s) and can be repeated in a succession of flashes.
  • (10) Repeated flashes above a few per second do not so much cause fatigue of the VEPs as reduce or prevent them by a sustained inhibition; large late waves are released as a rebound excitation any time the train of flashes stops or is delayed or sufficiently weakened.
  • (11) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
  • (12) The instrument is based on an established procedure for dark adaptation measurement in which the subject continuously adjusts the threshold luminance of a recurrently flashing stimulus.
  • (13) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
  • (14) A 300 mus decay component of ESR Signal I (P-700+) in chloroplasts is observed following a 10 mus actinic xenon flash.
  • (15) A comparative study is made, at 15 degrees C, of flash-induced absorption changes around 820 nm (attributed to the primary donors of Photosystems I and II) and 705 nm (Photosystem I only), in normal chloroplasts and in chloroplasts where O2 evolution was inhibited by low pH or by Tris-treatment.
  • (16) In the presence of dextran sulphate the recombination of hemoglobin with carbon monoxide after flash photolysis is biphasic and the fraction of quickly reacting material increases with dilution of the protein.
  • (17) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
  • (18) It was a wonderful piece of close control from Cassano, taking out two defenders in one movement, and Balotelli was quicker and more decisive than his marker, Holger Badstuber, to flash his header past Neuer.
  • (19) The visibility of a 1 degree, 200-msec flash on a large yellow field was measured as a function of the intensity of a coincident pedestal flash (a flash that was the same in both temporal intervals of a two-alternative forced-choice trial).
  • (20) The mean firing rates were significantly altered by either electrical or flash stimuli repeated 500 times at 0.97 Hz in those units which showed no transitory response.

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