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FLASHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("flashing" is a kind of...):
sheet metal (sheet of metal formed into a thin plate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A short vivid experience
Example:
the flashings of pain were a warning
Synonyms:
flash; flashing
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flashing" is a kind of...):
experience (an event as apprehended)
Derivation:
flash (appear briefly)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb flash
Context examples:
It made them mad to think of all they had done in the south, and then to see this saucy frigate flashing her money before their eyes.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he fought, his teeth flashing in a snap that sank them into the hand.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Like giants they toiled, days flashing on the heels of days like dreams as they heaped the treasure up.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Here was a face with flashing eyes and distorted features, a face convulsed with hatred and with the mad joy of gratified revenge.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I wonder what other bridegroom ever looked as he did—so bent up to a purpose, so grimly resolute: or who, under such steadfast brows, ever revealed such flaming and flashing eyes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The mother shut her eyes and her ears, that she might see and hear nothing, but there was a roaring sound in her ears like that of a violent storm, and in her eyes a burning and flashing like lightning.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Was it a fierce tiger of crime, which could only be taken fighting hard with flashing fang and claw, or would it prove to be some skulking jackal, dangerous only to the weak and unguarded?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the moment when Holmes struck the light I heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which my friend lashed so savagely.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The researchers were able to use a flashing LED light, which was flashed at high frequency that it became invisible to the observer's eye to allow the study participants to process only one image by cancelling one of the two produced in each eye.
(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)
'You could almost narrate the body changes and narrate the dream. She sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit, then she turns all dark, octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom.' 'This is a camouflage, like she's just subdued a crab and she's just going to sit there and eat it, and she doesn't want anyone to notice her.' 'It's a very unusual behavior to see the color come and go on her mantle like that, just to be able to see all the different color patterns flashing one after the other, you don't normally see that when an animal's sleeping.'
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
