flash

Definitions

• (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
• (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
• (transitive) To make visible briefly.
• (ambitransitive) To briefly, and often unintentionally, expose one's naked body or underwear, or part of it, in public. Contrast streak.
• (transitive) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons or as an act of contempt.
• (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• To communicate quickly.
• To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• (intransitive) To evaporate suddenly. See w
• (transitive) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• (transitive) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
• (transitive) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• (transitive) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
• (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
• (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
• (juggling) To perform a flash.
• (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• (transitive) To trick up in a showy manner.
• (transitive) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.