Words Like FLASHING

We have put together a list of words that are similar to FLASHING.

4 Alternative Words Similar to flashing

1 Bright Adjective      Similar Words Like Bright
2 Flash Noun      Synonym Words Like Flash
3 Experience Noun      Synonym Words Like Experience
4 Filleting Noun      Variant Words Like Filleting

1 examples of flashing

1 the flashings of pain were a warning

10 definitions of flashing

1 The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
2 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.
3 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.
4 A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
5 sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing
6 a short vivid experience
7 Sheet metal used to reinforce and weatherproof the joints and angles of a roof.
8 In glass-making: The reheating of partially formed glassware in a flashing-furnace to restore the plastic condition, and to smooth rough edges.
9 The act or process of heating a globe of blown glass, and giving it a rapid rotary motion, so that the opening already made in it will widen till the globe flashes suddenly into a flat disk.
10 A mode of coating a globe of hot colorless glass with a film of colored glass, usually red, and blowing them together until they flash into a disk.
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