Word Meanings - FLASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary

Additional info about word: FLASH

1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. 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. Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unumbered struggles. Talfourd. The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind. M. Arnold. A thought floashed through me, which I clothed in act. Tennyson. 3. To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily. Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other. Shak. To flash in the pan, to fail of success. See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett. Syn. -- Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister. Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLASH)

• Burn
• Ignite
• kindle
• brand
• consume
• cauterize
• rage
• glow
• smoulder
• blaze
• flash
• cremate
• incinerate
• Coruscate
• Blaze
• flame
• scintillate
• glisten
• Instant
• Moment
• second
• minute
• twinkling
• trice
• Sparkle
• Scintillate
• glitter
• gleam
• shine
• bubble
• radiate
• coruscate
• effervesce
• Trice
• Twinkling
• instant

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLASH)

• Distinguish
• honor
• decorate

Related words: (words related to FLASH)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• INSTANT
  upon, to press upon; pref. in- in, on + stare to stand: cf. F. in. 1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• MOMENTARILY
  Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• TRICENTENARY
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
• TWINKLE
  1. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange. 2. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• IGNITE
  To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum. (more info) 1. To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
• INSTANTLY
  1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly.
• MOMENTOUS
  Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• CORUSCATE
  To glitter in flashes; to flash. Syn. -- To glisten; gleam; sparkle; radiate.
• RADIATE-VEINED
  Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• FRATRICELLI
  The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• BUSHINESS
  The condition or quality of being bushy.
• INTERLOCUTRICE
  A female interlocutor.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.