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Flashing Meaning in French |
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French
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dépêche
, éclat
, éclatement
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revêtement de zinc
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Flashing
- (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
- (n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
- (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash
- (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
Synonyms:
Flash,
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• Flash
- (v. i.) 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.
- (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
- (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
- (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
- (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
- (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
- (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
- (n.) To trick up in a showy manner.
- (v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
- (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
- (v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
- (n.) A pool.
- (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
- (v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
- (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
Synonyms:
Blink, Brassy, Cheap, Dart, Dash, Flare, Flashing, Flashy, Flaunt, Garish, Gaudy, Gimcrack, Instant, Jiffy, Loud, Meretricious, Ostentate, Scoot, Scud, Shoot, Swank, Tacky, Tatty, Tawdry, Trashy, Trice, Twinkle, Twinkling, Wink, Winkle,
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atonal, drunk, diversion, diversified, fancy, croquet, shipwreck, diverging, diver, edgy, vacillation, swinging, lilt, carafe, abscess, caravan, edema, safety, shed, overlook, trash, discoverer, omit, trapper, miss, flatten, fell, expend, companionable, deteriorate, cliff, cast, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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