flash

A man photographing himself in a mirror using a camera flash, creating a bright flash of light

Meanings

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

A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
A very short amount of time.
A flashlight; an electric torch.
A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
Short form of camera flash
A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
A form of military insignia.
Short form of flash memory
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe (genus), Deudorix (genus) and Rapala (genus).
A tattoo flash.
The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
A newsflash.
A pool.
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.

In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien, which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa, related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa.
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").

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