flash vs precipitate

flash

adj
  • Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously. 

  • Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy. 

  • Having plenty of ready money. 

  • Liable to show off expensive possessions or money. 

noun
  • A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class. 

  • The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders. 

  • A pool. 

  • Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle. 

  • Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould. 

  • A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. 

  • The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public. 

  • Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala. 

  • 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. 

  • A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc). 

  • A form of military insignia. 

  • A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once. 

  • A flashlight; an electric torch. 

  • The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug. 

  • A very short amount of time. 

  • A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo). 

  • A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit. 

verb
  • To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. 

  • To flaunt; to display in a showy manner. 

  • To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour. 

  • To burst out into violence. 

  • To send by some startling or sudden means. 

  • To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel. 

  • To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.) 

  • To expand (blown glass) into a disc. 

  • To move, or cause to move, suddenly. 

  • To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. 

  • To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.) 

  • To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge). 

  • To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. 

  • To perform a flash. 

  • To be visible briefly. 

  • To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt. 

  • To make visible briefly. 

  • To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance. 

  • To communicate quickly. 

precipitate

adj
  • Performed very rapidly or abruptly. 

  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. 

  • Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. 

  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically. 

  • Very steep; precipitous. 

noun
  • a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution 

  • a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action 

verb
  • To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To throw an object or person from a great height. 

  • To act too hastily; to be precipitous. 

  • To send violently into a certain state or condition. 

  • To make something happen suddenly and quickly. 

  • To come out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets. 

  • To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground. 

  • To fall headlong. 

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