flash
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1.3
- noun
- /flæʃ/
:
instante
- Okay, stay here, I'll be back in a flash.
- quick as a flash
- a flash in the pan
And it was a big, big flash and he was gone.
- And it was a big, big flash and he was gone.
- Where were you when that flash came to you for that movie?
- Something happens, and it's not just a flash, but it, it, it occurs on a regular basis.
- A flash, like that's a a flash, a bang and particles hit in my face.
- Just make Someone Like You have a good, have a good flash, make people smile.
- I saw my flash of my brothers too once.
Examples
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Something happens, and it's not just a flash, but it, it, it occurs on a regular basis.
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Which is when I had a brain flash and my brain went from big to Galaxy.
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Then I had this flash of having kids and the kids making that face.
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Sometimes, events happen in a flash; at other times, a PJ situation takes time to develop.
Academic text (2010) -
Concern passed from his face in a flash, replaced by adoration.
Fiction book (1993) -
Payne was off in a flash, and she seems never to have slowed down.
Academic text (1993) -
The instant of contact brought a radiant flash, like a surge of heat lightning.
Fiction book (1991) -
I remember him as if in a momentary flash: in mid-step, on the stairs, turning.
Fiction book (1993) -
The meeting ended in a flash, leaving everyone surprised by the quick conclusion.
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Her excitement faded in a flash when she heard the disappointing news.
Synonyms
232
1.0
A very short moment that passes quickly
43
2.5
A very short moment when something happens
35
2.8
A very short moment that passes almost instantly
22
4.9
A very short time like a moment
17
7.2
A very short time, just a moment
8
2.5
A very short moment of time
5
7.2
A very short moment when something happens
1
9.9
A very short time, like an instant
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
4
7.2
A person or thing that has a short time of success and then people forget them
Compounds
- Specialized
20
5.1
A sudden hot feeling and heavy sweating that often happens during menopause
- Texting
9
4.6
A group of people who suddenly gather in public to perform a planned unusual act and then leave
- Literature
1
7.5
A scene in a book or film that jumps ahead to show events in the future
- Specialized
1
7.5
The lowest temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapor to catch fire in air
- Specialized
A process that joins two metal pieces by melting their ends with electricity, often used for rails or pipes
- Specialized
To join two metal pieces by heating their ends with electricity until they melt and pushing them together
- Specialized
A very short, strong burst of heat from an explosion that can burn things nearby
- Specialized
A cloth badge worn on the shoulder of a military uniform that shows a soldier's unit
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flash once meant a very quick burst, so it also came to mean a very short moment. That is why doing something in a flash means doing it almost instantly.