flashing
flashing is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Flash. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- present participle. of Flash
- noun. The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
- noun. sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing
- noun. a short vivid experience
"a flash of emotion swept over him"
"the flashings of pain were a warning"
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