Flash vs Touch - What's the difference?
flash | touch | 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.
* Shakespeare
* Wirt
(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
* 1876, , The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ,
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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.
* 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.
Primarily physical senses.
# (label) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
# (label) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
# (label) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
# (label) To make physical contact with a thing.
# (label) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
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# (label) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
# (label) To consume, or otherwise use.
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# (label) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
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# To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
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# (label) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
# To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
# (label) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
Primarily non-physical senses.
# (label) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
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# (label) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on'' or ''upon something).
#* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
# (label) To concern, to have to do with.
#* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:
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#* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 423:
# (label) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
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# (label) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
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# (label) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
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# To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To infect; to affect slightly.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
To perform, as a tune; to play.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
A little bit; a small amount.
* Shakespeare
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
A relationship of close communication or understanding.
The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
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Act or power of exciting emotion.
* Shakespeare
An emotion or affection.
* Hooker
Personal reference or application.
* Francis Bacon
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
* Dryden
A brief essay.
* Jonathan Swift
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
* Shakespeare
* Fuller
Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
* Carew
* Shakespeare
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
The children's game of tag.
Flash is a synonym of touch.
As a proper noun flash
is (computing) a popular multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages.As a verb touch is
primarily physical senses.As a noun touch is
an act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.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 ----touch
English
Verb
(es)- Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.
- Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander — from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain — this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.
- But in fact the English kings of the seventeenth century usually began to touch form the day of their accession, without waiting for any such consecration.
- Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch' upon gold, that will not ' touch upon silver.
- Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched ,which much trouble many of us.
- "Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope," continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand."
- Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.
- And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge.
- There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.
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- On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
- I mean to touch your love indeed.
- The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.
- (Francis Bacon)
- [They] touched their golden harps.
- A person in the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.
- No decree of mine,[to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will.
Derived terms
* touch a nerve * touch base * touch bottom * touch down * touch off * touch on * touch the hem of someone's garment * touch up * touch woodNoun
(es)- Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.
- With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.
- He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch .
- Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.
- Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.
- Madam, I have a touch of your condition.
- He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch .
- He promised to keep in touch while he was away.
- I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch .
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- Not alone / The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches , / Do strongly speak to us.
- a true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy
- Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used.
- Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.
- Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch .
- Now do I play the touch .
- a neat new monument of touch and alabaster
- equity, the true touch of all laws
- friends of noble touch
- a heavy touch''', or a light '''touch