English Dictionary

flash

IPA（発音記号）

/flæʃ/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 くだけた表現 比喩的用法 液体用法 廃用

(transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. / (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. / (intransitive) To be visible briefly. / (transitive) To make visible briefly.

日本語の意味

一瞬、断続的に光らせる（他動詞） / 断続的に光る、ちらつく（自動詞） / 一瞬だけ視認される（自動詞） / 一瞬だけ見えるようにする（他動詞）

The lighthouse keeper flashed the beam across the dark waters to warn approaching ships.

灯台守は接近する船に警告するため、暗い海面に光を一瞬点滅させた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.

He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.

The light flashed on and off.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To be visible briefly.

The scenery flashed by quickly.

意味（4）

(transitive) To make visible briefly.

A number will be flashed on the screen.

意味（5）

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)

She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.

意味（6）

(figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.

For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its completion, that strong differences of opinion and feeling should cease to agitate the scenes on which freemen are called to discharge political duties.

意味（7）

To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.

He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.

意味（8）

To communicate quickly.

The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.

意味（9）

To move, or cause to move, suddenly.

Flash forward to the present day.

意味（10）

(transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.

意味（11）

(intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)

意味（12）

(transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.

意味（13）

(transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).

In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.

意味（14）

(transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.

意味（15）

(transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.

意味（16）

(transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.

意味（17）

(intransitive) To burst out into violence.

意味（18）

(juggling) To perform a flash.

意味（19）

(metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.

意味（20）

(transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.

Oft have I ſeaſoned ſavory periods / With ſugar'd words, to delude Guſtus' taſte, / And oft embelliſh'd my entreative phraſe, / Limning and flaſhing it with various dyes, / To draw proud Viſus to me by the eyes: […]

意味（21）

(transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

The varlet ſaw, when to the flood he came, / How without ſtop or ſtay he fiercely lept, / And deep himſelfe beducked in the ſame, / That in the lake his loftie creſt was ſteept, / Ne of his ſafetie ſeemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely flaſhd / The waves about, and all his armour ſwept, / That all the bloud and filth away was waſht, / Yet ſtill he bet the water, and the billows daſht.

flashes （ present singular third-person ）

flashing （ participle present ）

flashed （ participle past ）

flashed （ past ）