Flashing
['flæʃɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash
(n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
(n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
(n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
(n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- Call Estella, she repeated, flashing a look at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I thought her, then, still more colourless and thin than when I had seen her last; the flashing eyes still brighter, and the scar still plainer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Don't quote Bible at me that way, Mr. Wilson, said George, with a flashing eye, don't! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She went and crouched alone in her bedroom, looking out of the window at the big, flashing stars. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- No fact in electricity seems more marvelous than that the thousands of messages flashing along the wires overhead are likewise traveling through the ground beneath. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But he only laughed the more, turning often to the little Countess, who was flashing up her face at him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun was laughing and flashing, powdered with snow-crystals, Gerald worked perfectly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Lord helped me; nobody knows how much the Lord can help 'em, till they try, said the woman, with a flashing eye. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There are plenty of ropes, suggested Crispin hopefully, and if— Right y'are, sir, said Gurt energetically, his one eye flashing with satisfaction. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At the far end of the bridge there were officers and carabinieri standing on both sides flashing lights. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Her eyes were flashing, her cheeks were flushed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In her good-tempered moments is it not as full of lazy softness as in her brief fits of anger it is fulgent with quick-flashing fire? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Checker: Monroe