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{
"derived": [
{
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"word": "aflash"
},
{
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"word": "flash around"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flashback"
},
{
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"word": "flasher"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash for cash"
},
{
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"word": "flashforward"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash forward"
},
{
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"word": "flashing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flashlight"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash over"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flashover"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash the ash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash the cash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "reflash"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "flasshen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English flasshen",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "flasken"
},
"expansion": "flasken",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "flaskien",
"3": "",
"4": "to sprinkle, splash"
},
"expansion": "flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "flasa",
"3": "",
"4": "to burn brightly, blaze"
},
"expansion": "flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "flare"
},
"expansion": "flare",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "flasa",
"t": "to rush, go hastily"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flashes",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "flashing",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "flashed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "flashed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flash (third-person singular simple present flashes, present participle flashing, simple past and past participle flashed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
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"tags": [
"possibly"
],
"word": "flush"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "gleam"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to shine briefly or intermittently."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-jxT0JYp2",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
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{
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "pʿaylatakel",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "փայլատակել"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "probljasvam",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "проблясвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "閃光"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎnguāng",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "闪光"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "lyse"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "skinne"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "väläyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "flashar"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "splanc"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "lampeggiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "balenare"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "dardeggiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "proiettare"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "kōwhā"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "kōhā"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "rapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of lightning",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "kōkirikiri"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "lampejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vspýxivatʹ",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вспы́хивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vspýxnutʹ",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вспы́хнуть"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "plamsaj"
},
{
"_dis1": "52 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 34 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "lysa"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The light flashed on and off.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-VBl2nmf7",
"links": [
[
"blink",
"blink"
],
[
"shine",
"shine"
],
[
"illuminate",
"illuminate"
],
[
"intermittent",
"intermittent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently."
],
"synonyms": [
{
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"sense": "to briefly illuminate",
"word": "glint"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "primigvam",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "примигвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "blinke"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "vilkkua"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of light",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "välkkyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "clignoter"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "blinken"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "splanc"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "corruscare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "coruscare"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "karamu"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "błyskać"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to blink",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "błysnąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "piscar"
},
{
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to blink",
"word": "blinka"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The scenery flashed by quickly.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be visible briefly."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-R1cekwoO",
"links": [
[
"visible",
"visible"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be visible briefly."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "pʿaylatakel",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "փայլատակել"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "probljasvam",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "проблясвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "閃現"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎnxiàn",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "闪现"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "glimte"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "ekbrili"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "vilahtaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of light",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "välähtää"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "fulgere"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "apparire"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "fulgēre"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "msk",
"lang": "Mansaka",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "kilat"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "flage"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "błąkać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "błyskać"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "błysnąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 55 21 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "glimta"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A number will be flashed on the screen.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The special agents flashed their badges as they entered the building.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "She flashed me a smile from the car window.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2020 September 14, Charlie Campbell, “'Thailand’s Inconvenient Truth.' Why This Billionaire Is Risking It All to Back Reform of the Monarchy”, in Time",
"text": "Today, people are taking to the street once again. Clad in face masks, and flashing the three-fingered Hunger Games salute to the sound of Thai rap, thousands of protesters have thronged the capital over recent months, demanding political reform of a military-backed government seen as bungling and corrupt.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make visible briefly."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-KwmCk7DG",
"links": [
[
"visible",
"visible"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make visible briefly."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "8 1 20 56 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make visible briefly",
"word": "使閃現"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 20 56 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǐ shǎnxiàn",
"sense": "to make visible briefly",
"word": "使闪现"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 20 56 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make visible briefly",
"word": "blive vist i glimt"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 20 56 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make visible briefly",
"word": "vilauttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 20 56 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "of light",
"sense": "to make visible briefly",
"word": "väläyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 20 56 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to make visible briefly",
"word": "flage"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)"
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-fSm9wdSl",
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"undergarment",
"undergarment"
],
[
"momentarily",
"momentarily"
],
[
"unintentional",
"unintentional"
],
[
"streak",
"streak"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)"
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "3 1 0 0 51 0 4 1 3 7 2 3 4 3 3 2 4 2 3 1 3",
"sense": "to expose one's naked body or underwear",
"word": "wardrobe malfunction"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gùyì zǒuguāng",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "故意走光"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "blotte sig"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "vilauttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "s’exhiber"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "esibirsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "whakapohane"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "whakapōhanehane"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"english": "if done by a woman",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "pitore"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "whakapuheto"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "whakapuwheto"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 1 10 10 24 0 4 1 4 10 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
"word": "blotta"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 3 2 2 18 1 3 2 8 12 8 5 5 3 3 4 3 5 4 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to deliberately expose the private parts for humorous reasons or as an insult",
"word": "vilauttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 3 2 2 18 1 3 2 8 12 8 5 5 3 3 4 3 5 4 1 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to deliberately expose the private parts for humorous reasons or as an insult",
"word": "whakapohane"
}
]
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"ref": "1845, Thomas [Noon] Talfourd, Report of the Proceedings Connected with the Grant Soirée of the Manchester Athenæum, Held on Thursday, October 23rd, 1845. From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday, October 25th, 1845. Printed for the Directors, Manchester: Cave and Sever, Printers, 18, St. Ann's Street, →OCLC, page 16",
"text": "For although party's worn-out moulds have been shivered, and names which have flashed and thundered as the watchwords of unnumbered struggles for power are now fast waning into history, it is too much to hope, perhaps to desire, until the education of mankind shall more nearly approach its completion, that strong differences of opinion and feeling should cease to agitate the scenes on which freemen are called to discharge political duties.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1851, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess: A Medley”, in Poems by Alfred Tennyson. In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 163",
"text": "But while he jested thus, / A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. / Remembering how we three presented Maid, / Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast, / In masque or pageant at my father's court.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1856, Matthew Arnold, “Preface”, in Poems, new and complete edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 20",
"text": "The Isabella [Isabella, or the Pot of Basil], then, is a perfect treasure-house of graceful and felicitous words and images: almost in every stanza there occurs one of those vivid and picturesque turns of expression, by which the object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind, and which thrill the reader with a sudden delight.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance."
],
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[
"flood",
"flood"
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[
"momentary",
"momentary"
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[
"brilliance",
"brilliance"
]
],
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"(figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 1 79 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to break forth like a sudden flood of light",
"word": "välähtää"
}
]
},
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"categories": [],
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{
"text": "He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To flaunt; to display in a showy manner."
],
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[
"flaunt",
"flaunt"
],
[
"display",
"display"
],
[
"showy",
"showy"
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],
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{
"_dis1": "4 1 0 0 2 2 64 1 3 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to flaunt",
"word": "vilauttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 0 0 2 2 64 1 3 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 3",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to flaunt",
"word": "ostentare"
}
]
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{
"text": "The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "to flash a message along the telephone wires; to flash conviction on the mind",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To communicate quickly."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-3NSUYuMp",
"links": [
[
"communicate",
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],
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 83 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to communicate quickly",
"word": "kiidättää"
}
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Flash forward to the present day.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-03-18",
"text": "But they survived some real pressure as David Murphy flashed a header inches wide of Rob Green's right-hand post[…].",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To move, or cause to move, suddenly."
],
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"move",
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[
"suddenly",
"suddenly"
]
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"_dis1": "31 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 49 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to move, or cause to move suddenly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "mihnout se"
},
{
"_dis1": "31 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 49 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to move, or cause to move suddenly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "míhat se"
},
{
"_dis1": "31 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 49 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move, or cause to move suddenly",
"word": "temmata"
},
{
"_dis1": "31 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 49 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move, or cause to move suddenly",
"word": "vilahdella"
},
{
"_dis1": "31 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 49 2 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move, or cause to move suddenly",
"word": "vilahtaa"
}
]
},
{
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"_dis": "7 6 6 6 7 1 1 1 6 10 8 7 7 5 6 4 1 5 5 1 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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"Entry maintenance"
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},
{
"_dis": "2 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 1 4 2 2 2 5 4 1 1 3 5 2 3 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 5 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 2",
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Gossamer-winged butterflies",
"orig": "en:Gossamer-winged butterflies",
"parents": [
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"Insects",
"Arthropods",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
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],
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{
"text": "Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-A6VJKgbm",
"links": [
[
"telephone",
"telephone#Verb"
]
],
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"(transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back."
],
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{
"_dis1": "10 5 0 0 5 1 5 5 8 13 4 5 3 4 6 3 9 3 2 1 8",
"sense": "telephoning",
"word": "beep"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "cngcʿnel",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "ծնգցնել"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "vızıv atmaq"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "klikam",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "кликам"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "prozvonit"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "piikata"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "soittaa häläri"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "soittaa killeri"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "zaris gašveba",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "ზარის გაშვება"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tak-zang zadan",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "تکزنگ زدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prozvonítʹ",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "прозвони́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "cimnuti"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "цимнути"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 3 54 3 4 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "pinchar"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)"
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-8~6u7U3s",
"links": [
[
"evaporate",
"evaporate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"of liquid"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 15 8 37 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of liquid: to evaporate suddenly",
"word": "haihtua"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Climbing",
"orig": "en:Climbing",
"parents": [
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-zi2wgVHi",
"links": [
[
"climbing",
"climbing#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"climbing",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 3 2 2 5 1 1 2 4 5 3 49 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "climbing: to climb successfully on the first attempt",
"word": "flashata"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge)."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-IDjm-mTN",
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"write",
"write"
],
[
"memory",
"memory"
],
[
"updatable",
"updatable"
],
[
"BIOS",
"BIOS"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 2 1 1 5 0 4 1 3 5 2 4 44 4 3 4 2 2 5 0 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "computing: to write to the memory of an updatable component",
"word": "uudelleenkirjoittaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 2 1 1 5 0 4 1 3 5 2 4 44 4 3 4 2 2 5 0 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "computing: to write to the memory of an updatable component",
"word": "flashen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-v~XUCFUg",
"links": [
[
"layer",
"layer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"glassmaking",
"manufacturing"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To expand (blown glass) into a disc."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-kdDbg3b0",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"glassmaking",
"manufacturing"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To send by some startling or sudden means."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-ZIBRyj8O",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To burst out into violence."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-Y68qN1Na",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To burst out into violence."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Juggling",
"orig": "en:Juggling",
"parents": [
"Games",
"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform a flash."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-3o2IiWVY",
"links": [
[
"juggling",
"juggling#Noun"
],
[
"flash",
"flash#English:_juggling"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(juggling) To perform a flash."
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"hobbies",
"juggling",
"lifestyle",
"performing-arts",
"sports"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 3 3 1 2 2 2 2 1 3 66 1 0 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "juggling: to perform a flash",
"word": "flashata"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Metallurgy",
"orig": "en:Metallurgy",
"parents": [
"Metals",
"Technology",
"Matter",
"All topics",
"Chemistry",
"Nature",
"Fundamental",
"Sciences"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-c13gGUDw",
"links": [
[
"metallurgy",
"metallurgy"
],
[
"pressure",
"pressure"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"metallurgy",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1607, Antony Brewer [attributed; now generally believed to be by Thomas Tomkis], Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Comedy (A Select Collection of Old Plays; V), [London]: [Printed for R[obert] Dodsley], published [1744], →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 8",
"text": "Oft have I ſeaſoned ſavory periods / With ſugar'd words, to delude Guſtus' taſte, / And oft embelliſh'd my entreative phraſe, / Limning and flaſhing it with various dyes, / To draw proud Viſus to me by the eyes: […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To trick up in a showy manner."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-HJ4QyXHB",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book II, canto VI, stanza XLII; republished as The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-two Copper-Plates, from the Original Drawings of the late W. Kent, Esq.; Architect and Principal Painter to His Majesty, volume I, London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751, OCLC 642577152, page 316",
"text": "The varlet ſaw, when to the flood he came, / How without ſtop or ſtay he fiercely lept, / And deep himſelfe beducked in the ſame, / That in the lake his loftie creſt was ſteept, / Ne of his ſafetie ſeemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely flaſhd / The waves about, and all his armour ſwept, / That all the bloud and filth away was waſht, / Yet ſtill he bet the water, and the billows daſht."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash."
],
"id": "en-flash-en-verb-6TMCMUxK",
"links": [
[
"strike",
"strike"
],
[
"surface",
"surface"
],
[
"splash",
"splash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 77",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface",
"word": "roiskuttaa"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/flæʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æʃ"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/En-us-flash.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-flash.ogg",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/En-au-flash.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
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}
],
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}
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"word": "aeon"
}
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "anti-flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "arc flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "blue flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "camera flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "double-flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "double flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "eyebrow flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash back"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash-ball"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash bang"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash-bang"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash boiler"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flashbulb"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash burn"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash burner"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash card"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash crowd"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash cut"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash door"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash drive"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash drought"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash fiction"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash flood"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash flooding"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash frame"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash freezing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash-fry"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash grenade"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash gun"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash house"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash in the pan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash-lag effect"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash-lag illusion"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash lock"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash memory"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash mob"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash mobber"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash pack"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash pan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash paper"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash photography"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash point"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash powder"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flashproof"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash rob"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash roll"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash sale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash suppressor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash test"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flash-to-bang time"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "flashy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "green flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "helium flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hot-flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hot flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "in a flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "news flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "patter flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "quick as a flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ring flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "side flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "welder's flash"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "xenon flash lamp"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "flaix",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: flaix",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: flaix"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "flesz",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: flesz",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: flesz"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "flasshen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English flasshen",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "flasken"
},
"expansion": "flasken",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "flaskien",
"3": "",
"4": "to sprinkle, splash"
},
"expansion": "flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "flasa",
"3": "",
"4": "to burn brightly, blaze"
},
"expansion": "flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "flare"
},
"expansion": "flare",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "flasa",
"t": "to rush, go hastily"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "In some senses, from Middle English flasshen, a variant of flasken, flaskien (“to sprinkle, splash”), which was likely of imitative origin; in other senses probably of North Germanic origin akin to Swedish dialectal flasa (“to burn brightly, blaze”), related to flare. Compare also Icelandic flasa (“to rush, go hastily”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flashes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "flash (countable and uncountable, plural flashes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "glimmer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "shimmer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "sparkle"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "twinkle"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 2 0 9 0 9 7 1 0 1 2 4 7 4 1 0 1 1 1 5 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 2 0 0 3 6 1 0 1 7 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Light",
"orig": "en:Light",
"parents": [
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sudden, short, temporary burst of light."
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "light"
}
],
"id": "en-flash-en-noun-DT5JK0dC",
"links": [
[
"sudden",
"sudden"
],
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"temporary",
"temporary"
],
[
"burst",
"burst"
],
[
"light",
"light"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "gleam"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "glint"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uspýška",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "успы́шка"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bljásǎk",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бля́сък"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bljásvane",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "бля́сване"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "llampec"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "閃爍"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎnshuò",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "闪烁"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "záblesk"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "glimt"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "lyn"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "flits"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "ekbrilo"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "välähdys"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "väläys"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "leimaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "leimahdus"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "éclair"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lóstrego"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blitz"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "flasho"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "splanc"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ist",
"lang": "Istriot",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lanpo"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "baleno"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lampo"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sprazzo"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"alt": "せんこう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "senkō",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "閃光"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "furasshu",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "フラッシュ"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"alt": "閃光",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seomgwang",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "섬광"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "peullaesi",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "플래시"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "beleg"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lamp"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "liuç"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şimşek",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "شمشك"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "felâš",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "فلاش"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "barq",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "برق"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "błysk"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lampejo"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clarão"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vspýška",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вспы́шка"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverkánije",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сверка́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "40 1 4 25 2 1 1 1 3 6 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 2",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"ref": "1607, Antony Brewer [attributed; now generally believed to be by Thomas Tomkis], Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Comedy (A Select Collection of Old Plays; V), [London]: [Printed for R[obert] Dodsley], published [1744], →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 8",
"text": "Oft have I ſeaſoned ſavory periods / With ſugar'd words, to delude Guſtus' taſte, / And oft embelliſh'd my entreative phraſe, / Limning and flaſhing it with various dyes, / To draw proud Viſus to me by the eyes: […]",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book II, canto VI, stanza XLII; republished as The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-two Copper-Plates, from the Original Drawings of the late W. Kent, Esq.; Architect and Principal Painter to His Majesty, volume I, London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751, OCLC 642577152, page 316",
"text": "The varlet ſaw, when to the flood he came, / How without ſtop or ſtay he fiercely lept, / And deep himſelfe beducked in the ſame, / That in the lake his loftie creſt was ſteept, / Ne of his ſafetie ſeemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely flaſhd / The waves about, and all his armour ſwept, / That all the bloud and filth away was waſht, / Yet ſtill he bet the water, and the billows daſht."
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"word": "փայլատակել"
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{
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to cause to shine",
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{
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"word": "kōwhā"
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{
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"sense": "to cause to shine",
"word": "kōhā"
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{
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{
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"code": "de",
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"code": "ga",
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{
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{
"code": "hy",
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"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "փայլատակել"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"word": "проблясвам"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to be visible briefly",
"word": "閃現"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎnxiàn",
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{
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{
"code": "eo",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "vilahtaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "la",
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"code": "msk",
"lang": "Mansaka",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to make visible briefly",
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{
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"code": "da",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to expose one's body briefly in public",
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{
"code": "da",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "hy",
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"word": "ծնգցնել"
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{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to telephone someone, only allowing the phone to ring once",
"word": "vızıv atmaq"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "ka",
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"word": "ზარის გაშვება"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"word": "تکزنگ زدن"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"word": "прозвони́ть"
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"code": "sh",
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"word": "cimnuti"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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"word": "цимнути"
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"code": "es",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"word": "haihtua"
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
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"ref": "1680, Francis Bacon, “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St Alban. With a Table of the Colours of Good & Evil. Whereunto is Added The Wisdom of the Antients. Enlarged by the Honourable Author Himself; and Now More Exactly Published, London: Printed by M[ary] Clark, for Samuel Mearne, in Little Britain, John Martyn, in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Henry Herringman, in the New Exchange, →OCLC, pages 111–112",
"text": "[F]or Empire and Greatneſs it importeth moſt, that a Nation do profeſs Arms as their principal Honour, Study and Occupation: […] The Fabrick of the State of Sparta was wholly (though not wiſely) framed and compoſed to that Scope and End. The Perſians and Macedonians had it for a flaſh. The Galls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others had it for a time.",
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"ref": "1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1st American edition, Hartford, Conn., Chicago, Ill., Cincinnati, Oh.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 164",
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"ref": "1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 259",
"text": "[B]reath his faults ſo quaintly, / That they may ſeeme the taints of liberty; / The flaſh and out-breake of a fiery minde, / A ſauagenes in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall aſſault.",
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"ref": "1817, William Wirt (Attorney General), “section I”, in Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by James Webster, No. 10, S. Eighth Street. William Brown, printer, Prune-street, →OCLC, page 6",
"text": "I cannot learn that he [Patrick Henry] gave, in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius. His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy, no remarkable beauty or strength of expression; and no indication, however slight, either of that impassioned love of liberty, or of that adventurous daring and intrepidity, which marked, so strongly, his future character.",
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"ref": "2011 October 7, Phil McNulty, “Euro 2012: Montenegro 2 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-10-05",
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"countable",
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"ref": "1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Above all, they hate flash. Just as the English working class has always been, they are fiercely puritanical and abhor all forms of display.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 390",
"text": "The ATF sound was lacking in extended solos, flash, and pomposity, but CBS liked the group's respect for traditional Anglo-rock, their Beatles-like energy, and the splashes of Yes, Genesis, and 10cc that colored their music.",
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}
],
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"Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle."
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"Pizzazz",
"pizzazz"
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[
"razzle-dazzle",
"razzle-dazzle"
]
],
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"figuratively",
"uncountable"
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},
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"Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould."
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"edge",
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[
"part",
"part"
],
[
"mould",
"mould"
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],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
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"British English",
"Cockney English"
],
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"The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders."
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[
"strips",
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[
"cloth",
"cloth"
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"buttons",
"buttons"
],
[
"collar",
"collar"
],
[
"market",
"market"
],
[
"traders",
"traders"
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],
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"Britain",
"Cockney",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
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"en:Juggling"
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"A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once."
],
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[
"juggling",
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],
[
"pattern",
"pattern"
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[
"prop",
"prop"
],
[
"throw",
"throw"
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"caught",
"catch#Verb"
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"countable",
"uncountable"
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"hobbies",
"juggling",
"lifestyle",
"performing-arts",
"sports"
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},
{
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"en:Linguistics"
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"A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class."
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"linguistics",
"linguistics"
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[
"language",
"language"
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"minority",
"minority"
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[
"cultural",
"cultural"
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[
"identity",
"identity"
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[
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"understand"
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[
"ruling class",
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
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"word": "camera flash"
}
],
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"English clippings",
"en:Photography"
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"Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”)."
],
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[
"photography",
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"camera flash",
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[
"artificial",
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[
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"scene",
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"countable",
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"photography"
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},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger."
],
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[
"preparation",
"preparation"
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"capsicum",
"capsicum"
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"burnt",
"burnt"
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[
"sugar",
"sugar"
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[
"colouring",
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],
[
"liquor",
"liquor"
],
[
"stronger",
"stronger"
]
],
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"(archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger."
],
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"archaic",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Military"
],
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{
"text": "I just got my first commando flash.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A form of military insignia."
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[
"military",
"military"
],
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"insignia",
"insignia"
]
],
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"(military) A form of military insignia."
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
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{
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}
],
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Computing"
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{
"text": "The hybrid drive has 500 gigabytes of hard disk space for bulk storage and 2 gigabytes of high-speed flash for caching frequently-accessed files.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Clipping of flash memory."
],
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[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"flash memory",
"flash memory#English"
]
],
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"(computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory."
],
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"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"clipping",
"uncountable"
],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
},
{
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"Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)"
],
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"Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala."
],
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[
"lycaenid",
"lycaenid"
],
[
"genera",
"genus"
],
[
"Rapala",
"Rapala"
]
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Body art"
],
"glosses": [
"A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo)."
],
"links": [
[
"tattoo flash",
"tattoo flash"
]
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem",
"text": "At three-thirty that afternoon Max, Tom, and Sharon placed tabs under their tongues and sat together in the living room to wait for the flash.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Proper and Improper Use of Drugs by Athletes: Hearings, page 645",
"text": "A few seconds following the injection, the user experiences a sudden, intense generalized sensation which has both physiological and psychological characteristics. […] pure, commercially produced products do not give a good flash […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1976, Robert H. Coombs, Lincoln J. Fry, Patricia G. Lewis, Socialization in Drug Abuse, page 123",
"text": "The flash — the odd combination of a cocoon-comfort and an inexplicable physical ascendency to a \"high\" — provides the major incentive for the new experimenter to move to the next phase of his career.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The sudden sensation of being \"high\" after taking a recreational drug."
],
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[
"high",
"high"
],
[
"recreational drug",
"recreational drug"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021, Glenn Petersen, War and the Arc of Human Experience, page 129",
"text": "I'd heard about LSD and wanted to try it early on, but I'd also heard of delayed reactions, called acid flashes, brought on by unexpected stimuli; they could prove fatally disorienting.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”)"
],
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]
],
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{
"extra": "recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug",
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"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
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}
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1931, George Seldes, Can These Things Be!, volume 25, page 274",
"text": "The United Press got the flash \"Germans declare martial law in Ruhr\" […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A newsflash."
],
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[
"newsflash",
"newsflash"
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],
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"(dated) A newsflash."
],
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"countable",
"dated",
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]
},
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"ref": "2015 October 27, Tim O'Rourke, Flashes, Scholastic Inc.",
"text": "I didn't need them anymore. The police badge worked like a dream with both Alice and Kerry. One quick flash of the badge, and they were in the car and out of the rain. No questions asked.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 June 29, Ally Shields, Embers of Fire, Etopia Press",
"text": "Gabriel grabbed her wrist and spun her around, stepping forward right in her face, showing a brief flash of fangs this time. “Not good enough. I can haul you over my shoulder if that's the way it has to be.” “I'd almost like to see you[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 October 3, Blaine Lee Pardoe, BattleTech Legends: Measure of a Hero, Catalyst Game Labs",
"text": "She ended the question with a flash of a smile that took more energy than she'd ever thought a mere smile could.",
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}
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"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
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{
"text": "panty flash"
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{
"ref": "2005 September 1, Lisa Cach, Have Glass Slippers, Will Travel, Simon and Schuster, page 256",
"text": "[…] the answer came to her. Camera flashes. That strobing light had been the flash of a camera. Icy panic poured through her body. She had a vision of Janet Jackson's boob flash at the Super Bowl;[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 April 21, Tina Gray, Fantasy Lover, Pink Flamingo Media",
"text": "“Would you like a boob flash?” Hundred token tips began to flow in. “Thanks guys, and she read off the user names. That deserves more than just a flash.” She pulled up the hem of her top and turned left and right giving them a great show[…]",
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}
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},
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"en:Telecommunications"
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"Short for hook flash."
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],
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"(telecommunications) Short for hook flash."
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"countable",
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "uspýška",
"sense": "burst of light",
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],
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{
"code": "bg",
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],
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{
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "閃爍"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎnshuò",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "闪烁"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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{
"code": "da",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "lyn"
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{
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"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "ekbrilo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "välähdys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "väläys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "leimahdus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "burst of light",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "éclair"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lóstrego"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blitz"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "flasho"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "splanc"
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{
"code": "ist",
"lang": "Istriot",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lanpo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "baleno"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lampo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"alt": "せんこう",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "senkō",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "閃光"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "furasshu",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "フラッシュ"
},
{
"alt": "閃光",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seomgwang",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "섬광"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "peullaesi",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "플래시"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "oc",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "liuç"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şimşek",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "شمشك"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "felâš",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "فلاش"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "barq",
"sense": "burst of light",
"word": "برق"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "błysk"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lampejo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clarão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vspýška",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вспы́шка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sverkánije",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сверка́ние"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lasair"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "plathadh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "relámpago"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fogonazo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "flash"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "destello"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "blixt"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spálax",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спа́лах"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zblysk",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зблиск"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spólox",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спо́лох"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spaláxnennja",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "спала́хнення"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "burst of light",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lanpo"
},
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Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, 1751, OCLC 642577152, page 316\", \"text\": \"The varlet \\u017faw, when to the flood he came, / How without \\u017ftop or \\u017ftay he fiercely lept, / And deep him\\u017felfe beducked in the \\u017fame, / That in the lake his loftie cre\\u017ft was \\u017fteept, / Ne of his \\u017fafetie \\u017feemed care he kept, / But with his raging armes he rudely fla\\u017fhd / The waves about, and all his armour \\u017fwept, / That all the bloud and filth away was wa\\u017fht, / Yet \\u017ftill he bet the water, and the billows da\\u017fht.\"}], \"glosses\": [\"To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.\"], \"links\": [[\"strike\", \"strike\"], [\"surface\", \"surface\"], [\"splash\", \"splash\"]], \"raw_glosses\": [\"(transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.\"], \"tags\": [\"obsolete\", \"transitive\"]}], \"sounds\": [{\"ipa\": \"/fl\\u00e6\\u0283/\"}, 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\"vsp\\u00fdxivat\\u02b9\", \"sense\": \"to cause to shine\", \"tags\": [\"imperfective\"], \"word\": \"\\u0432\\u0441\\u043f\\u044b\\u0301\\u0445\\u0438\\u0432\\u0430\\u0442\\u044c\"}, {\"code\": \"ru\", \"lang\": \"Russian\", \"roman\": \"vsp\\u00fdxnut\\u02b9\", \"sense\": \"to cause to shine\", \"tags\": [\"perfective\"], \"word\": \"\\u0432\\u0441\\u043f\\u044b\\u0301\\u0445\\u043d\\u0443\\u0442\\u044c\"}, {\"code\": \"sh\", \"lang\": \"Serbo-Croatian\", \"sense\": \"to cause to shine\", \"word\": \"plamsaj\"}, {\"code\": \"sv\", \"lang\": \"Swedish\", \"sense\": \"to cause to shine\", \"word\": \"lysa\"}, {\"code\": \"bg\", \"lang\": \"Bulgarian\", \"roman\": \"primigvam\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"\\u043f\\u0440\\u0438\\u043c\\u0438\\u0433\\u0432\\u0430\\u043c\"}, {\"code\": \"da\", \"lang\": \"Danish\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"blinke\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"vilkkua\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"note\": \"of light\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"v\\u00e4lkky\\u00e4\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"clignoter\"}, {\"code\": \"de\", \"lang\": \"German\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"blinken\"}, {\"code\": \"ga\", \"lang\": \"Irish\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"splanc\"}, {\"code\": \"it\", \"lang\": \"Italian\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"corruscare\"}, {\"code\": \"la\", \"lang\": \"Latin\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"coruscare\"}, {\"code\": \"mi\", \"lang\": \"Maori\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"karamu\"}, {\"code\": \"pl\", \"lang\": \"Polish\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"b\\u0142yska\\u0107\"}, {\"code\": \"pl\", \"lang\": \"Polish\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"tags\": [\"perfective\"], \"word\": \"b\\u0142ysn\\u0105\\u0107\"}, {\"code\": \"pt\", \"lang\": \"Portuguese\", \"sense\": \"to blink\", \"word\": \"piscar\"}, {\"code\": \"sv\", 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\"b\\u0142yska\\u0107\"}, {\"code\": \"pl\", \"lang\": \"Polish\", \"sense\": \"to be visible briefly\", \"tags\": [\"perfective\"], \"word\": \"b\\u0142ysn\\u0105\\u0107\"}, {\"code\": \"sv\", \"lang\": \"Swedish\", \"sense\": \"to be visible briefly\", \"word\": \"glimta\"}, {\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"sense\": \"to make visible briefly\", \"word\": \"\\u4f7f\\u9583\\u73fe\"}, {\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"roman\": \"sh\\u01d0 sh\\u01cenxi\\u00e0n\", \"sense\": \"to make visible briefly\", \"word\": \"\\u4f7f\\u95ea\\u73b0\"}, {\"code\": \"da\", \"lang\": \"Danish\", \"sense\": \"to make visible briefly\", \"word\": \"blive vist i glimt\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to make visible briefly\", \"word\": \"vilauttaa\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"note\": \"of light\", \"sense\": \"to make visible briefly\", \"word\": \"v\\u00e4l\\u00e4ytt\\u00e4\\u00e4\"}, {\"code\": \"no\", \"lang\": \"Norwegian Nynorsk\", \"sense\": \"to make visible briefly\", \"word\": \"flage\"}, {\"code\": \"cmn\", \"lang\": \"Chinese Mandarin\", \"roman\": \"g\\u00f9y\\u00ec z\\u01d2ugu\\u0101ng\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in public\", \"word\": \"\\u6545\\u610f\\u8d70\\u5149\"}, {\"code\": \"da\", \"lang\": \"Danish\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in public\", \"word\": \"blotte sig\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in public\", \"word\": \"vilauttaa\"}, {\"code\": \"fr\", \"lang\": \"French\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in public\", \"word\": \"s\\u2019exhiber\"}, {\"code\": \"it\", \"lang\": \"Italian\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in public\", \"word\": \"esibirsi\"}, {\"code\": \"mi\", \"lang\": \"Maori\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in public\", \"word\": \"whakapohane\"}, {\"code\": \"mi\", \"lang\": \"Maori\", \"sense\": \"to expose one's body briefly in 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\"word\": \"v\\u00e4l\\u00e4ht\\u00e4\\u00e4\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to flaunt\", \"word\": \"vilauttaa\"}, {\"code\": \"la\", \"lang\": \"Latin\", \"sense\": \"to flaunt\", \"word\": \"ostentare\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to communicate quickly\", \"word\": \"kiid\\u00e4tt\\u00e4\\u00e4\"}, {\"code\": \"cs\", \"lang\": \"Czech\", \"sense\": \"to move, or cause to move suddenly\", \"tags\": [\"perfective\"], \"word\": \"mihnout se\"}, {\"code\": \"cs\", \"lang\": \"Czech\", \"sense\": \"to move, or cause to move suddenly\", \"tags\": [\"imperfective\"], \"word\": \"m\\u00edhat se\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to move, or cause to move suddenly\", \"word\": \"temmata\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to move, or cause to move suddenly\", \"word\": \"vilahdella\"}, {\"code\": \"fi\", \"lang\": \"Finnish\", \"sense\": \"to move, or cause to move suddenly\", \"word\": 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