Flashes
Flashes İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Flashes anlamları
- (pl. ) of Flash
Flashes tanım:
Kelime: flash
Söyleniş: 'flash
İşlev: verb
Kökeni: Middle English flaschen, of imitative origin
intransitive senses
1 : RUSH, DASH -- used of flowing water
2 : to break forth in or like a sudden flame or flare
3 a : to appear suddenly an idea flashes into her mind b : to move with great speed the days flash by
4 a : to break forth or out so as to make a sudden display the sun flashed from behind a cloud b : to act or speak vehemently and suddenly especially in anger
5 a : to give off light suddenly or in transient bursts b : to glow or gleam especially with animation or passion her eyes flashed with anger
6 : to change suddenly or violently into vapor hot water flashing to steam under reduced pressure
7 : to expose one's genitals usually suddenly and briefly in public
8 : to have sudden insight -- often used with on
transitive senses
1 a archaic : SPLASH b : to fill by a sudden inflow of water
2 a : to cause the sudden appearance of (light) b : to cause to burst violently into flame c (1) : to cause (light) to reflect (2) : to cause (as a mirror) to reflect light (3) : to cause (a lamp) to flash d : to convey by means of flashes of light
3 a : to make known or cause to appear with great speed flash a message on the screen b : to display obtrusively and ostentatiously always flashing a roll of bills c : to expose to view suddenly and briefly flashed a badge
4 : to cover with or form into a thin layer: as a : to protect against rain by covering with sheet metal or a substitute b : to coat (as glass) with a thin layer (as of metal or a differently colored glass)
5 : to subject (an exposed photographic negative or positive) to a supplementary uniform exposure to light before development in order to modify detail or tone
synonyms FLASH, GLEAM, GLINT, SPARKLE, GLITTER, GLISTEN, GLIMMER, SHIMMER mean to send forth light. FLASH implies a sudden and transient outburst of bright light lightning flashed . GLEAM suggests a steady light seen through an obscuring medium or against a dark background lights gleamed in the valley . GLINT implies a cold glancing light glinting steel . SPARKLE suggests innumerable moving points of bright light the sparkling waters of the gulf . GLITTER connotes a brilliant sparkling or gleaming glittering diamonds . GLISTEN applies to the soft sparkle from a wet or oily surface glistening rain-drenched sidewalks . GLIMMER suggests a faint or wavering gleam a distant glimmering light . SHIMMER implies a soft tremulous gleaming or a blurred reflection a shimmering satin dress .