adj
(military) Causing an explosive device to detonate if disturbed.
adj
Relating to, or formed by a cryptoexplosion
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(US, informal) The red rotating light put on a police car's dashboard to indicate an emergency.
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The characteristic visual phenomenon produced by the atmospheric detonation of a nuclear weapon, consisting of a very brief, bright flash of light which dims rapidly, followed by a second, gradually brightening flash.
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A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
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(archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
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(intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
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(intransitive) To be visible briefly.
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(transitive, colloquial) To make an ostentatious show of; to show to everybody in a boastful manner.
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(chiefly telecommunications) A change made to a complex system with immediate effect, one made without a phase-in period.
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(UK, informal) pertaining to a scam where a motorist flashes their headlights to indicate to another driver to proceed against normal give-way rules, then runs in to them and sues for damages.
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A transient occurrence with no long-term effect.
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(figuratively) A hotspot; a dangerous place of violent political unrest.
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(photography) A powder that burns with a very rapid flash when ignited; used in pyrotechnics and early flash photography.
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(intransitive) To appear suddenly on a screen.
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(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.
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(computing, informal) A software developer who uses the Flash multimedia technology.
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(photography) Any similar unit used to generate repeatable flashes of light for photography.
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(computing) A Flash animation
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Alternative spelling of flash mob [A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.]
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An unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.
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Alternative form of flash point [(physics) The lowest temperature at which a liquid can form an ignitable mixture in air near the surface of the liquid.]
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(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.
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The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
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(informal) A microphone that is turned on.
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(science fiction) A weapon or other device that causes implosion.
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(Britain) A (sometimes unofficial) strike by workers with little or no warning.
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(astronomy) A relatively small solar flare.
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(UK, dated) electromagnetic pulse
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A blue dot on some flashbulbs that turns pink if there is an air leak.
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A disruptive electrical discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (such as lightning) and neighbouring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.
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(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
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(figuratively) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.
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To create (blaze) a new trail that others can then follow
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