flash
68 synonyms found
- automatic response
- bit
- blaze of light
- brain wave
- brainstorm
- brainwave
- brightness
- bulletin
- coruscate
- coruscation
- deflagration
- display
- experience
- facula
- flash fire
- fleeting impulse
- gleam
- gleam of light
- glimmer
- glint
- glisten
- glitter
- gut response
- half a jiffy
- half a mo
- half a second
- half a shake
- half an eye
- happening
- insight
- involuntary impulse
- jiff
- jiffy
- lamp
- minute
- mo
- moment
- natural impulse
- news report
- occurrence
- occurrent
- patch
- peek
- photographic equipment
- quick hunch
- quick sight
- rapid glance
- scintilla
- scintillate
- scoot
- second
- send a wire
- shimmer
- show off
- snazzy
- solar flare
- solar prominence
- split second
- squiz
- sudden thought
- telegraph
- Teletype
- telex
- trice
- twinkling
- two shakes
- visual signal
- zoom
Definition
"he flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise."