• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (shǎnxiàn)

• Danish: glimte

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (shǎnxiàn)

• Danish: blive vist i glimt

Noun

1. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
2. A language, created by a repressed minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class; for example, ebonics.
3. A very short amount of time.
   • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

     Quick—something must be done! done in a flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.

4. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
5. The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.

Synonyms

• (sudden, short, temporary burst of light:) gleam, glint
• (material left around the egde of a mould:) moulding flash, molding flash

Antonyms

• (very short amount of time:) aeon

Hypernyms

• (sudden, short, temporary burst of light:) light

See also

• sparkle, shimmer, glimmer, twinkle

Derived terms

• flashy
• camera flash
• flash flood
• flash memory
• flash photography
• flash point
• flash in the pan
• in a flash
• quick as a flash

Translations

• ttbc Japanese: フラッシュ (furasshu)
• ttbc Urdu: (jhalak)

Adjective

1. In the context of "UK|and|NZ|slang": Expensive looking and attention worthy.

(compare flashy)

Translations

Anagrams

• halfs note: nonstandard form of halves.

References

• For the sense ‘a short period of time’, the 1858 Notes and Queries of Martim de Albuquerque was consulted. From page 437 of the sixth volume of the second series, published in London by Bell & Dally, 186 Fleet Street, in 1858 :

  ''Ought we not to collect for posterity the various ways in which very short times are denoted. Besides the one at the head, there are, — in no time, in next to no time, in less than no time, in a trice, in a jiffy, in a brace of shakes, before you can say Jack Robinson, in a crack, in the squeezing of a lemon, in the doubling of your fist, in the twinkling of an eye, in a moment, in an instant, in a flash.''

Flash may refer to:

• Flash, Staffordshire

In technology:

• Flash (photography), instantaneous illumination for picture taking
• Adobe Flash, multimedia software
• Hook flash, a telephone function
• FLASH, Free Electron LASer of Hamburg
• M202A1 FLASH, a rocket launcher
• Flash memory, a form of non-volatile computer memory
• FLASH MRI, a basic measuring principle for rapid MRI

In media:

• Flash (comics), any of multiple speedy comics superheroes
• Flash (G.I. Joe), from the G.I. Joe comics universe
• Flash Gordon, the hero of a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond
• Flash (album) (2005), by electronic musician Towa Tei
• Flash (Jeff Beck album) (1985), by rock guitarist Jeff Beck
• "Flash" (song), by rock band Queen
• "Flash" (Stéphanie song), a 1986 single by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
• Flash (band), a progressive rock group
• Flash (1997 film), an American television film
• Flash (2007 film), a Malayalam film

Other:

• Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching
• Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art
• Flash evaporation, causing evaporation by lowering a fluid's pressure below its vapour pressure
• Flash (cleaning product), the UK name of Mr. Clean, produced by Procter & Gamble
• Flash Airlines, a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt
• Molding flash, excess material attached to a molded product along a parting line
• Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), an American hip hop musician and DJ
• DJ Flash (born 1957), an American DJ
• Muzzle flash, the visible light of the muzzle blast when a firearm is discharged

See also

• Flashing (disambiguation)
• Flashlight
• Pennington Flash Country Park
• Flash mob
• Flash animation
• Flash fiction
• Flash paper, disambiguation page

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