What's the difference between flash and quicksilver?
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.
Quicksilver
Definition:
(a.) The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
(2) Maya Yoshida and the excellent Victor Wanyama had threatened earlier and the second goal followed more quicksilver work by Mané, who escaped on the byeline before being body checked by Rochdi Achenteh.
(3) Which there was, before even the Dead: Quicksilver's symphonic epic 'The Fool' being the first taste.
(4) Although Tennant is best-known in the wider world for his quicksilver portrayal of the tenth Timelord in Doctor Who – and more recently, a quizzical detective in ITV's doomy thriller Broadchurch – his theatrical pedigree is impressive.
(5) Alli scored Tottenham’s second goal and he dazzled with his quicksilver incisions while Son was a persistent threat in the No9 role.
(6) Chile need to do more quicksilver, fleet-footed attacking, and rely less on sending free-kicks into the mixer.
(7) The first is that attempting to regulate the things that it creates is like trying to catch quicksilver using a butterfly net.
(8) Dispatches picked up both the home and international current affairs awards, for independent producer True Vision's The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs, and Quicksilver Media's Syria: Across the Lines, respectively.
(9) But I suspect that 21st-century politics is much more uncertain, and the way that Corbyn went from zero to hero within weeks is further proof of how politics flips around in a world beyond tribal loyalty, and the quicksilver reality in which we find ourselves.
(10) We in Big Brother wanted to be Indians, tribal, while Quicksilver wanted to be the cowboys, with their boots, carrying rifles around.'
(11) At their core were the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding company (with Janis Joplin) - leaving Country Joe and the Fish, and the Sparrows (later Steppenwolf), slightly to one, political, side.
(12) De Bruyne’s second strike of this nascent season came courtesy of a quicksilver brain.
(13) In the film, Cumberbatch plays Assange as a quicksilver saviour, humane at times, deceitful at others, never less than human.
(14) Bates was an infinitely versatile actor at home in all media; but what one will remember, especially in modern drama, is his matchless ability to suggest a quicksilver intelligence imbued with mischievous irony.
(15) Feldman's other interests included Ocean Energy, Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, and Parker Drilling.
(16) The Glenderamackin Beck shines like a vein of quicksilver in the shade below, while the low-angled light above accentuates the shapeliness of the underlying Skiddaw slate as opposed to the more jumbled forms of the rest of Lakeland.
(17) As for the fight itself , Ali risked destruction by using slackened ropes to lean eccentrically out of reach , back arched, rendering him intermittently safe from the oak-tree arms of the hitherto unbeaten Foreman , draining George’s strength and self-belief until he picked the right moment to launch his quicksilver raid on the crude ogre’s chin.
(18) There was time in prison for possession of marijuana, but Duncan secured 'good money for suits and driving around with show girls' playing casinos in Vegas before coming to San Francisco, hooking up with David Freiberg and the late John Cipollina to form Quicksilver.
(19) Some great vocab – “Quicksilver,” “impoverished” – that lend a terrific punch.
(20) This information is entered onto an IBM compatible computer by the secretary using a quick, user-friendly program written in a dBASE dialect and compiled with Quicksilver.