What's the difference between flash and lightning?

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.

Lightning


Definition:

  • (n.) A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
  • (n.) The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
  • (vb. n.) Lightening.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
  • (2) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
  • (3) We went on holiday to Cyprus and the plane got hit by lightning.
  • (4) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
  • (5) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
  • (6) Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants described bonuses as the "lightning rod" of the public's lack of trust in bankers.
  • (7) The literature relating to the neurology of lightning strike is briefly reviewed.
  • (8) One instance occurred while the victim was using the telephone; the other victim received a direct lightning strike to the head.
  • (9) These teams open up with five goals, three of which came at lightning speed.
  • (10) There are various reasons some musicians don't like Spotify, although the company is something of a lightning rod for criticism of all streaming services.
  • (11) Bruce, who believes Sessègnon could help to plug the gap left by striker Darren Bent, said: "Stéphane can play on the left, on the right, through the middle – he's lightning quick and he's a match-winner.
  • (12) Although uncommon, symptoms of lightning-like electric sensations spreading into both arms, down the dorsal spine, and into both legs on neck flexion following head and neck irradiation, causes great concern in both the patient and the physician.
  • (13) A variety of electrocardiographic changes have been documented previously in association with lightning injury; however, the changes in this patient have not previously been reported.
  • (14) He again complained of severe lightning pain after the successful spinal anesthesia with the same anesthetic solution.
  • (15) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
  • (16) Cameron can't stab Nick in the back over AV and keep using him as an all-purpose lightning conductor."
  • (17) The importance of electrophysiological and CT scan examination in the diagnosis and etiology of abnormalities caused in the eye by lightning is emphasized.
  • (18) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
  • (19) A case is described in which the patient had been struck by lightning, with involvement of one eye and the visual pathways.
  • (20) Emergency physicians and staff are usually the first to evaluate and manage victims of lightning strikes.

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