{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "flæʃ" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/flash.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).", "From Middle English flasche, flaske; compare Old French flache, French flaque, which is of Germanic origin, akin to Middle Dutch vlacke (“an estuary, flats with stagnant pools”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.\nHe flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.\nThe light flashed on and off." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be visible briefly.\nThe scenery flashed by quickly." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To make visible briefly.\nA number will be flashed on the screen.\nThe special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building.\nShe flashed me a smile from the car window." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)\nShe flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.\nHer skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car." }, { "mean": "(figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance." }, { "mean": "To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.\nHe flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills." }, { "mean": "To communicate quickly.\nThe news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.\nto flash a message along the telephone wires;  to flash conviction on the mind" }, { "mean": "To move, or cause to move, suddenly.\nFlash forward to the present day." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.\nSusan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)" }, { "mean": "(transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt." }, { "mean": "(transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).\nIn order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first." }, { "mean": "(transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour." }, { "mean": "(transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To burst out into violence." }, { "mean": "(juggling) To perform a flash." }, { "mean": "(metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A sudden, short, temporary burst of light." }, { "mean": "A very short amount of time." }, { "mean": "(colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch." }, { "mean": "(figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle." }, { "mean": "Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould." }, { "mean": "(Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders." }, { "mean": "(juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once." }, { "mean": "(linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class." }, { "mean": "(photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”)." }, { "mean": "(archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger." }, { "mean": "(military) A form of military insignia.\nI just got my first commando flash." }, { "mean": "(computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.\nThe hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files." }, { "mean": "Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala." }, { "mean": "A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo)." }, { "mean": "The sudden sensation of being \"high\" after taking a recreational drug." }, { "mean": "(dated) A newsflash." }, { "mean": "A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc)." }, { "mean": "The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.\npanty flash" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(British, Australia and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy." }, { "mean": "(UK, of a person) Having plenty of ready money." }, { "mean": "(UK, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money." }, { "mean": "(US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously." }, { "mean": "(slang, obsolete) Relating to thieves and vagabonds.\nthe flash language: thieves' cant or slang\nflash notes: counterfeit banknotes" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Douglas Harper(2001–2023),“flash”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.\nFor 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:\nOught 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." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A pool." }, { "mean": "(engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "flash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "레퍼런스", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(to briefly illuminate): glint", "(telephoning): beep" ], "kor": [ "", "" ] } } }