(computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
(ambitransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's nakedbody or underwear, or part of it, in public. (Contrast streak.)
(metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
(engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigablestream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
(figurative) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius.
(linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class; for example, Ebonics.
(UK, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
(US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
Esimerkit
Limning and flashing it with various dyes.
flash point
The pretty girl flashed her breasts for the cameras.
A picture of the Grand Canyon flashed onto the screen.
I’ll be over in a flash.
There was a flash of light.
He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are,
I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.
Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
Quick—something must be done! done in a flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.
The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.
No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.
the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind
Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
He rudely flashed the waves about.
He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.
But they survived some real pressure as David Murphy flashed a header inches wide of Rob Green's right-hand post.
Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.
to flash a message along the telephone wires; to flash conviction on the mind
The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.
He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.
A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.
The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.
names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles
The special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building.
A number will be flashed on the screen.
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
The scenery flashed by quickly.
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.