Flashing

Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash
  • (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
  • (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
  • (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
  • (n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.

Compare flashing with other words:

flashing vs. fleshing

fashing vs. flashing

flashing vs. lashing

flashing vs. slashing

flashing vs. flushing

flashing vs. plashing

clashing vs. flashing

flashing vs. shining

flashing vs. upstand

flashing vs. twinkling

flashing vs. mobile

dazzling vs. flashing

filleting vs. flashing

burr vs. flashing

blinking vs. flashing

flashing vs. streaking

cursor vs. flashing

computer vs. flashing

blink vs. flashing

flashing vs. light

flashing vs. terminated

flashing vs. interrupted

flashing vs. penetration

flashing vs. perimeter

flashing vs. weatherproof

flashing vs. lamping

flash vs. flashing