(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.
Flaunt
Definition:
(v. i.) To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
(v. t.) To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
(n.) Anything displayed for show.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(2) Since she won the Nobel prize, tree planting has become an essential for all countries wanting to flaunt green credentials.
(3) Vladimir Putin flaunts that disrespect with his actions over Ukraine.
(4) • This article was amended on 29 January 2015 to correct a misuse of flaunt for flout in the sub-heading.
(5) From the age of 38, he led the Liberals for nine years, flaunting his advantage when, out on the election trail in 1974 wearing a trademark trilby, he vaulted a security barrier like a Moulin Rouge can-can dancer.
(6) These days, Banks flaunts his political views with a FTT (Fuck the Tories ) T-shirt.
(7) He flaunted a recent report by the BBC that suggests that more of the Lib Dem manifesto is being delivered in government than the priorities set out by the Conservatives, despite the fact that the Lib Dems have just eight percent of MPs in Westminster.
(8) The state-funded Genocide Museum on the main boulevard of Vilnius does not mention the word "Holocaust"; it is all about Soviet crimes; and even flaunts antisemitic exhibits.
(9) But Grazia drooling over Kardashian's "well-dressed bottom" is akin to the Mail Online claiming that women are "flaunting" their legs , when all they're doing is walking.
(10) The myth of wealth and gratification he flaunts in this portrait was largely fantasy when he started out.
(11) It is felt that the current belief of greater homosexuality in actors, as compared to the general population, is a product of our Puritan heritage, the actor's unconventionality, and of public flaunting of the homoerotic behavior of that portion of actors that are homosexual.
(12) Zhan Jiang, a journalism professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and prominent online opinion leader, said officials were now less likely to take obvious bribes and flaunt their power – one sign that the drive should be taken seriously.
(13) From selfies on super-yachts to posing with private jets, the young heirs of the uber-wealthy have attracted worldwide envy and derision by flaunting their lavish lifestyles on social media.
(14) "Flaunting one's curves" means, simply, that you have a female body and to have a female body means, obviously, that you want to be ogled and quite possibly more.
(15) A beekeeper brazenly flaunting his face-covering When Ukip first announced its ban on face-coverings it was asked if it would apply to beekeepers, and there, on page 52 of the manifesto, is a picture of one – just 15 pages after the burqa ban section.
(16) Although City have no issue with the result, the club believe the stadium ban was flaunted.
(17) Growing up gay in the Australian bush: 'We do not flaunt it, it's who we are' Read more I believe marriage equality can be achieved relatively soon, but only with a well-thought out plan, good organising, the participation of grassroots supporters and a lot of heart.
(18) Flaunting a corporate and totalitarian style, they stand before an ugly pseudo-classical painting of a mountain range straddled by the Great Wall, forming their own human wall of dark-suited conformity.
(19) The people it doesn’t belong to and who don’t belong there are those who grabbed it by force of arms, flaunting their contempt for the local citizens.” Le Guin, who lives in northwest Portland, said that the people of Harney County “have carefully hammered out agreements to manage the refuge in the best interest of landowners, scientists, visitors, tourists, livestock and wildlife”, and that “they’re suffering more every day, economically and otherwise, from this invasion by outsiders”.
(20) But to the oracle I must return once more because what the Washington Post once was to Nixon's corruption, Mail Online is to women flaunting their curves: tireless in its determination to expose such things, fearless in the face of mockery of its myopic and, to sceptical outsiders, decidedly deranged obsession.