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Flashing   /flˈæʃɪŋ/   Listen
Flashing

noun
1.
A short vivid experience.  Synonym: flash.  "The flashings of pain were a warning"
2.
Sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing.


Flash

verb
(past & past part. flashed; pres. part. flashing)
1.
Gleam or glow intermittently.  Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle.
2.
Appear briefly.
3.
Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously.  Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank.
4.
Make known or cause to appear with great speed.
5.
Run or move very quickly or hastily.  Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot.
6.
Expose or show briefly.
7.
Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal.
8.
Emit a brief burst of light.



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"Flashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... family and kissed them both. "Gosh! but you look lovely, Lucia, my dear!" he exclaimed, standing back a bit so that he could have even a better view of her rosy cheeks, flashing eyes, and blowing hair. "This autumn weather agrees with you, doesn't it? And Pancho—he looks better than any baby around ...
— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne
... the League had lifted Mr. Mix into a position of much prominence, and conveyed the very reasonable supposition that he was individually powerful. When a man is supposed to possess power, he can travel a long distance on the effect of a flashing eye, and an expanded chest; also, it is a foolhardy man who, regardless of his reputation, engages to meet all-comers in their ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... little scoundrel fooling us all, and pretending to be a college professor!" she remarked, indignation flashing ...
— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy
... disappeared, and he judged that it must be seven or eight o'clock. Between the rifts of the lower hills the lake was flashing silver, while where Vermont had been nothing but a mass of shadow, blue-green mountains were emerging in a triple row, from which the last veils of vapor were being dragged up into the firmament On the left, the Adirondacks ...
— The Wild Olive • Basil King
... bid you haste, a mixt tumultuous band! From every private bower, And each domestic hearth, Haste for one solemn hour; And with a loud and yet a louder voice O'er the sore travail of the common earth Weep and rejoice! Seiz'd in sore travail and portentous birth (Her eye-balls flashing a pernicious glare) Sick NATURE struggles! Hark—her pangs increase! Her groans are horrible! But O! most fair The promis'd Twins, ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


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