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(lb) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
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The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
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(lb) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
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Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
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* 1912 , (Willa Cather), :
The main axis of a feather.
(lb) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
(lb) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
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The main cylindrical part of the penis.
The chamber of a blast furnace.
(slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
to equip with a shaft.
(slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
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.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 34:
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.
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(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.
Shaft is a related term of flash.
As a noun shaft
is (lb) the entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.As a verb shaft
is (slang) to fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.As a proper noun flash is
(computing) a popular multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.shaft
English
Noun
(en noun)- His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, /
- A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft .
- And the thunder, / Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps
- Some kinds of literary pursuitshave been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule.
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The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- They were a fine company of old women, and a Dutch painter would have loved to find them there together, where the sun made bright patches on the floor and sent long, quivering shafts of gold through the dusky shade up among the rafters.
- Bid time and nature gently spare /
Usage notes
In Early Modern English, the shaft referred to the entire body of a long weapon, such that an arrow's "shaft" was composed of its "tip", "stale" or "steal", and "fletching". empenne as "I [[feather, fether a shafte, I put fethers upon a steale". Over time, the word came to be used in place of the former "stale" and lost its original meaning.Synonyms
* stale, stail, steal, stele, steel (arrows, spears ) * mineshaft (vertical underground passage )Verb
(en verb)- Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
- Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
Anagrams
* English transitive verbsflash
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)