Flash vs Instance - What's the difference?
flash | instance | Synonyms |
To briefly illuminate a scene.
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To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
To be visible briefly.
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(lb) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
*(Thomas Talfourd) (1795–1854)
*:names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles
*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
*:The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.
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*:A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.
To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
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To communicate quickly.
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(lb) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
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(lb) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
(lb) To perform a .
To move, or cause to move, suddenly
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, title= (lb) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
To trick up in a showy manner.
*(Antony Brewer) (fl.1655)
*:Limning and flashing it with various dyes.
To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:He rudely flashed the waves about.
(lb) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
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To evaporate suddenly. See (Flash evaporation).
To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
(figurative) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius.
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(linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class; for example, Ebonics.
A very short amount of time.
* Francis Bacon
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* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
Material]] left around the edge of a [[mould, moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
(Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
(US, colloquial) A flashlight or electric torch.
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A light used for photography - a shortened form of camera flash.
(juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
(archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
* 1892 , Banjo Paterson,
(UK, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
(UK, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
(US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
A pool.
(engineering) 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.
(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
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* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
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Occasion; order of occurrence.
* Sir M. Hale
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
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One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
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(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
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(computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class.
(massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
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(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
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* 2010 , Anthony Steed & Manuel Fradinho Oliveira, Networked Graphics: Building Networked Games and Virtual Environments , Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-12-374423-4, page 398:
To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
* 1946 , E. M. Butler, Rainer Maria Rilke ,
To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
Flash is a synonym of instance.
In computing|lang=en terms the difference between flash and instance
is that flash is (computing) a popular multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages while instance is (computing) in object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class.As a proper noun flash
is (computing) a popular multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.As a noun instance is
(obsolete) urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.As a verb instance is
to mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.flash
English
(wikipedia flash)Etymology 1
In some senses, from (etyl) flasshen, a variant of flasken, , related to (m).Verb
(es)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
West Ham 2-1 Birmingham, passage=But they survived some real pressure as David Murphy flashed a header inches wide of Rob Green's right-hand post
Synonyms
* (to briefly illuminate) glint * (telephoning) beepDerived terms
* flashback * flasher * flashforward * flashing * flashlight * flash upSee also
* gleamNoun
(es)- the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind
- No striking sentiment, no flash of fancy.
- The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash .
- Quick—something must be done! done in a flash , too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.
- Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
- I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.
Synonyms
* gleam, glint * (material left around the edge of a mould) moulding flash, molding flashAntonyms
* (very short amount of time) aeonHypernyms
* lightDerived terms
* antiflash * camera flash * flashy * flashbulb * flash flood * flash in the pan * flash memory * flash photography * flash point * flashproof * in a flash * quick as a flashSee also
* sparkle, shimmer, glimmer, twinkleAdjective
(en adjective)- The barber man was small and flash , as barbers mostly are,
- He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
References
* * For the sense ‘a short period of time’, the 1858 Notes and Queries of Martim de Albuquerque was consulted. From page 437 of the sixth volume of the second series, published in London by Bell & Dally, 186 Fleet Street, in 1858 : *: Ought we not to collect for posterity the various ways in which very short times are denoted. Besides the one at the head, there are, — in no time, in next to no time, in less than no time, in a trice, in a jiffy, in a brace of shakes, before you can say Jack Robinson, in a crack, in the squeezing of a lemon, in the doubling of your fist, in the twinkling of an eye, in a moment, in an instant, in a flash.Etymology 2
From (etyl) flasche, flaske; compare (etyl) flache, (etyl) flaque, which is of (etyl) origin, akin to Middle Dutch .Noun
(es)- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* flash wheelAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----instance
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Alternative forms
* enstance, enstaunce, instaunce (all obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his.
- undertook at her instance to restore them.
- It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602
- The instances that second marriage move / Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
- These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance .
- most remarkable instances of suffering
- sometimes we love those that are absent, saith Philostratus, and gives instance in his friend Athenodorus, that loved a maid at Corinth whom he never saw
- The organisations claim fraudsters are targeting properties belonging to both individuals and companies, in some instances using forged documents.
- The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner [...].
Re: DPS Classes: Why should I heal you?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- As long as the most difficult instance you've tried is Gnomeregan, you're never going to be credible talking about 'difficult encounters'.
- For example, when a team of five players enters the Sunken Temple instance in World of Warcraft , they will battle many monsters, but they will not encounter other players even though several teams of players may be experiencing the Sunken Temple at the same time.
What Makes an MMORPG Leader? A Social Cognitive Theory-Based Approach to Understanding the Formation of Leadership Capabilities in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games", Eludamos , volume 6, page 31:
- Beating a difficult instance becomes second nature after running through it…a few times, with good leaders knowing exactly what to do and how to co-ordinate member actions.
Re: Instance dungeons", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- The instance is created for the group that enters it.
Re: Does group leader affect drops?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- As soon as the first player enters (spawns) a new instance , it appears that the loottable is somehow chosen.
- A castle on the eastern edge of the island spawns a new instance whenever a party of players enters.
Derived terms
* at the instance of * in the first instance * in this instance * for instanceSee also
* (computing) closure, class, objectVerb
(instanc)p. 404
- The poems which I have instanced are concrete and relatively glaring examples of the intangible difference which the change of language made in Rilke's visions .