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Definition: Flashing |
FlashingAdjective1. Emitting light in sudden short or intermittent bursts; "flashing lightning and roaring thunder". Noun1. A short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning". 2. Sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flashing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building | Noncorrosive metal used around angles or junctions in roofs and exterior walls to prevent leaks. (references) |
Energy | Metal, usually galvanized sheet metal, used to provide protection against infiltration of precipitation into a roof or exterior wall; usually placed around roof penetrations such as chimneys. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Flashing can refer to indecent exposure (i.e to "flash" one's nude body in public at another unsuspecting person).Flashing can also mean blinking of a light bulb or computer's cursor.
Flashing also means the weatherproofing shielding put around objects which protrude from the roof of a building (such as pipes and chimneys, or the edges of other roofs) to deflect water away from the seams. Its name likely derives from the fact that metal flashing (typically copper or aluminum) reflects flashes of sunlight. Modern flashing may also be rubber or other waterproof synthetic materials, but metal is still frequently used.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flashing."
Synonym: FlashingSynonym: flash (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: overlaying (industry, metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ostentation | Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate). |
Resentment | Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flashing |
| English words defined with "flashing": apparent motion, apparent movement ♦ Coruscant ♦ dazzling ♦ Emicant ♦ feebly, Filleting, Fixed light, Flashed glass, flashing point, fulgurant, fulgurous ♦ Gleamy ♦ motion, movement ♦ strobe, strobe light, stroboscope ♦ To flash in the pan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flashing": Blondel-Rey effect, BULB FILLER ♦ CENTRIFUGAL-CASTING-MACHINE TENDER, CONTACT-LENS-FLASHING PUNCHER ♦ FINISHER, HAND ♦ green lightning ♦ LAND, LENS-MOLD SETTER ♦ mold setter, molder operator ♦ occulting quick flashing light ♦ PATROL JUDGE, Peacock ♦ regalia ♦ SUPERVISOR, PLASTICS FABRICATION ♦ VEP test, visual evoked potential test. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hide? I drive a giant red and white van with flashing lights and sirens (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) The flashing vacancy sign. (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes) Ok, it's flashing green (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Lyrics | Beware of what is flashing in her eyes (All That She Wants; performing artist: Ace Of Base) Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) All flashing pulsar (Bittersweet Me; performing artist: R.E.M.) The signals all are flashing red (Answer The Phone; performing artist: Sugar Ray) Flashing through my head (Simple Game; performing artist: The Moody Blues) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flashing Spikes (1962) | |
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 | Operator using Dorsey Fathometer with flashing light method Merchant Marine Bulletin No. 9, May 1931. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Leo Otis Colbert with Dorsey Fathometer No. 3 The first effective shallow and deep water echosounder Operator watched flashing light On the ship OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | West (door) elevation. Photograph by Gerda Peterich, September 1962. (Reproduction Number: HABS ME,3-PORTS,1-2) This unusual-looking lighthouse is built of curved cast-iron plates whose seams are cleverly disguised by six decorative Corinthian columns. Built in 1855 and rebuilt twenty years later, the lighthouse may have been the work of Thomas Ustick Walter, designer of the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The lighthouse's flashing red beacon helped guide ships from Casco Bay through the entrance to Portland Harbor. Wooden sheds and a six-room house for the lighthouse-keeper were added at a later date but have since been removed. The lighthouse itself was abandoned in 1943. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Marius saw in Bonaparte the flashing spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom walked to the corner and saw the preacher sitting back against the wall, looking at the flashing evening star in the light sky. |
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Health | Install so that the flashing reaches 12 inches above the ground and six inches down into the ground. (references) | |
Use metal flashing around the base of wooden, earthen or adobe homes to provide a strong metal barrier. (references) | ||
These symptoms are called an aura. The person may see flashing lights or zigzag lines, or may temporarily lose vision. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Other forms of advertisement in Egypt consist of roadside billboards, flashing neon signs on building roofs, building walls completely painted with advertising signs, "junk mail" advertisements, faxed advertisements, and messenger/courier-delivered direct mail campaigns. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flashing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.22% of the time. "Flashing" is used about 516 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 52.22% | 270 | 17,892 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 47.58% | 246 | 19,009 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 516 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flashing": colored flashing light ♦ coloured flashing light ♦ fixed and flashing light ♦ flashing beacon ♦ Flashing light ♦ flashing point ♦ flashing signal ♦ flashing warning light ♦ occulting quick flashing light ♦ quick flashing light. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flashing": flashing-eyed. | |
Ending with "flashing": light-flashing, pre-flashing, rainbow-flashing, swiftly-flashing. | |
Containing "flashing": long-flashing light. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
flashing | 2,518 | flashing pantie | 50 |
flashing girl | 648 | copper flashing | 47 |
public flashing | 521 | spring break girl flashing | 45 |
flashing tit | 154 | beach flashing | 42 |
flashing woman | 148 | flashing nude | 42 |
flashing trucker | 144 | spring break flashing | 41 |
teen flashing | 130 | flashing pussy | 40 |
flashing in public | 122 | flashing jewelry | 39 |
concert flashing | 110 | window flashing | 35 |
flashing light | 95 | flashing breast | 35 |
mardi gras flashing | 92 | college girl flashing | 35 |
flashing bios | 91 | public tit flashing | 31 |
roof flashing | 90 | flashing battery | 31 |
texas beach flashing | 71 | amateur flashing | 31 |
flashing wife | 70 | magnetic flashing light | 31 |
chimney flashing | 63 | flashing body light | 28 |
boob flashing | 61 | flashing thong | 27 |
flashing antenna | 56 | flashing roofing | 26 |
flashing fun | 55 | flashing led light wholesale | 24 |
flashing pic | 53 | flashing babe | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flashing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qoshe metalike të ndërtesës, ndezje (fire wood, fire-lighter, firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting). (various references) | |
Arabic | لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), تغليف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мигане (blinking, eyewink, twinkle, wink), бляскане, пламване (flash, ignition). (various references) | |
Chinese | 闪动 (Flashed). (various references) | |
Czech | blýskání. (various references) | |
Danish | flammepunkt (flash point, flashing point), fast fyr med blink (fixed and flashing light), hurtigblink med formoerkelser (occulting quick flashing light), hurtigblink (quick flashing light, scintillating light), blinklyssignal (colored flashing light, coloured flashing light, flashing beacon, flashing signal). (various references) | |
Dutch | flikkerlicht (occulting light, quick flashing light, scintillating light), vlampunt (flash point, flashing point), vast en schitterlicht (fixed and flashing light), onderbroken flikkerlicht (occulting quick flashing light), knipperlicht (blinker, colored flashing light, coloured flashing light, flasher, flasher relay, flashing beacon, flashing signal, ghost, occulting light, phantom). (various references) | |
Finnish | vilkkuvalo (winking light), leimahduspiste (flash point, flashing point, kindling point), leimahduslämpötila (flash point, flashing point), kiinteä valo ja vilkku (fixed and flashing light). (various references) | |
French | feu scintillant continu (quick flashing light), feu scintillant occultation (occulting quick flashing light), feu scintillant (quick flashing light), feu fixe varié par des éclats réguliers (fixed and flashing light), point d'inflammation (flash point, flashing point), point de flamme (flash point, flashing point), point d'éclair (flash point, flashing point), point éclair (flash point, flashing point), clignotant (colored flashing light, coloured flashing light, flash light, flash light indicator, flasher lamp, flasher unit, flashing beacon, flashing signal). (various references) | |
German | verwahrung (caveat, custody, detention, keeping, protest, safe keeping, safekeeping), kehlblech, gefunkel (gleaming, glittering, sparkling, twinkling), Entspannung (catharsis, détente, detente, easing, recreation, reduction of tension, relaxation, slackening, unbending, untightening), blinkend (blink, blinking), blinken (blink, flash, gleam, glint, indicate, shine, signal, to flash), aufblitzend. (various references) | |
Greek | που αναβοσβήνει. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ברק" (brightening, glittering), ב"וק (bright). (various references) | |
Hungarian | villanás (blink, flash, gleam, glint). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berkelebat. (various references) | |
Italian | luce scintillante. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 引火点 (flash point, flashing point), コスト効率 (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights, cockatrice, Cocker spaniel, cockney, cockpit, cockroach, cook, coq d'or, cosmetic, cosmetic lens, cosmetics, cosmetology, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolis, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, cosmos, cost effectiveness, costume play, cottage, cotton, cox, faucet, glass, Kodak, rough play, spigot, tap). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | い"かて" (flash point, flashing point), コズミックボーリング (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights). (various references) | |
Korean | 번쩍임 (sparkling). (various references) | |
Manx | londyrnee (dazzling, flare, flaring, glare, glare as light), falleayssaghey, falleaysagh (flicker, gleam, gleaming), chentyn (break, flash, flicker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashingflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espigão de suporte, cintilação (effulgence, glint, glisten, glitter, lambency, scintillation, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle, twinkling), brilho (blaze, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, effulgence, fire, glisten, glitter, gloss, glossiness, glow, illumination, irradiation, lucidity, luster, lustre, polish, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, varnish, vivacity). (various references) | |
Romanian | fulgurant (lightning), fulgerãtor (fulgurating, instantaneous), strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, vivid), strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fineness, fire, flame, flash, flush, gaiety, glitter, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), scânteietor (brilliant, flash, glittering, sparkling, starry), jgheab de scurgere. (various references) | |
Russian | сверкание (coruscation, glance, lambency, scintillation, twinkle), высвечивать мигание, мигание (flickering, nictitation, winking). (various references) | |
Spanish | destello (beam, blink, coruscation, flash, gleam, glint, spark, sparkle), brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling). (various references) | |
Swedish | flampunkt (flash point), blinkljus (flasher, flashlight). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спалахування (kindling, priming). (various references) | |
Welsh | llachar (bright, brilliant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coruscus, fulgens, fulgur, fulgura, fulguris, micans, micantes, micantis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flashing": flashings. (additional references) | |
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"Flashing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falsing, flashen, fleching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flashing" (pronounced fla"shing) |
| 5 | -l a" sh i ng | clashing, lashing, slashing, splashing. |
| 4 | -a" sh i ng | bashing, cashing, crashing, dashing, gnashing, hashing, rehashing, smashing, stashing, thrashing, trashing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | anguishing, accomplishing, abolishing, admonishing, ambushing, astonishing, banishing, blushing, brainwashing, brandishing, brushing, crushing, demolishing, diminishing, dishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, fishing, flourishing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gushing, languishing, lavishing, meshing, nourishing, onrushing, overfishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refreshing, refurbishing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, rushing, skirmishing, sloshing, squashing, tarnishing, unleashing, vanishing, washing, wishing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: fashing, lashing. | |
-2 letters: algins, aligns, ashing, fagins, finals, flings, haling, laighs, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, signal. | |
-3 letters: algin, alifs, align, anils, fagin, fails, fangs, final, flags, flans, flash, fling, gains, glans, glias, gnash, hafis, hails, hangs, laigh, liang, ligan, linga, lings, naifs, nails, nighs, sangh, slain, slang, sling, snail. | |
-4 letters: agin, ails, ains, alif. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-h-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: angelfish, fanlights, flashings. | |
+2 letters: anglerfish, nightfalls. | |
+3 letters: angelfishes, fishtailing. | |
+4 letters: anglerfishes, cliffhangers, farthingales. | |
+5 letters: flowchartings, lightfastness. | |
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