English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of flash

flash

/noun/ चमक; झलक; दमक; दीप्ति; कोंध; प्रकाश; फ़्लैश;
/verb/दीप्ति होना; कोंध गाना; सहसा प्रकाशि होना; चौंधाना; चमकाना; चमकना; आग की तरह चमकना;

Synonym shine; glimpse; deflagration; brilliance; light; glare; gild; burnish; Flash;

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English Dictionary:

1. Flash

[a.]

- Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
- Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

2. Flash

[n.]

- To trick up in a showy manner.
- To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
- A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
- The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
- A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
- Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
- 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.

3. Flash

[v. i.]

- To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
- To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
- To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

4. Flash

[v. t.]

- To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
- To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).