Weather / B2

FLASH/flæʃ/

A flash is a sudden bright light, or a very short time: a flash of lightning; in a flash. Flash flooding is a set UK weather phrase. As a verb: cameras flash. Glow is slower and steadier. Flash flooding closed the A-road. Do not use flash for a week-long heatwave.

Meaning

A sudden bright light; also a very short moment (in a flash).

Examples

• “Flash flooding closed the A-road before the speaking tests.”
• “The camera flash was banned in the gallery, which is the light sense.”

Good to know

a flash of; in a flash; flash flooding / a news flash. Verb: flash. Weather and photography. Sudden — not a long event.

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