Assert and Flash

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• A sudden intense burst of radiant energy.
• A momentary brightness.
• A short vivid experience.
  • usage: "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"
  • synonyms: flashing
• A sudden brilliant understanding.
  • usage: "he had a flash of intuition"
• A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat. )
  • usage: "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
  • synonyms: blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
• A gaudy outward display.
  • synonyms: ostentation, fanfare
• A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate.
  • synonyms: flare
• A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story.
  • synonyms: news bulletin, newsflash, newsbreak
• A bright patch of color used for decoration or identification.
  • usage: "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"
• A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph.
  • synonyms: photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb

verb

• Gleam or glow intermittently.
  • usage: "The lights were flashing"
  • synonyms: blink, wink, twinkle, winkle
• Appear briefly.
  • usage: "The headlines flashed on the screen"
• Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously.
  • usage: "he showed off his new sports car"
  • synonyms: flaunt, show off, ostentate, swank
• Make known or cause to appear with great speed.
  • usage: "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"
• Run or move very quickly or hastily.
  • usage: "She dashed into the yard"
  • synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot
• Expose or show briefly.
  • usage: "he flashed a $100 bill"
• Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal.
  • usage: "flash the roof"
• Emit a brief burst of light.
  • usage: "A shooting star flashed and was gone"

adjective

• Tastelessly showy.
  • usage: "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
  • synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

• (v.i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
• (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
• (n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
• (n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
• (a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
• (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
• (n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• (n.) To trick up in a showy manner.
• (v.i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
• (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
• (v.t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
• (n.) A pool.
• (v.t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
• (v.i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
• (n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

• Name Meaning: Bright Light
• Name Origin: American

Value of a security displayed, or' Flash'ed across the tape, when the tape display cannot keep up with volume on an exchange and lags the current price is lagged more than approximately five minutes.