Flashbulb

Word FLASHBULB
Character 9
Hyphenation flash bulb
Pronunciations /ˈflæʃbʌlb/

Definitions and meanings of "Flashbulb"

What do we mean by flashbulb?

A glass bulb filled with finely shredded aluminum or magnesium foil that is ignited by electricity to produce a short-duration high-intensity light flash for taking photographs. noun

A lamp for providing intense momentary light to take a photograph. noun

A glass bulb, filled with finely shredded magnesium, that emitted a short, intense flash of light when ignited by electricity; could be used only once noun

A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph noun

A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph noun

A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.

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The word "flashbulb" in example sentences

Goliath is a horrific giant cyclops; the drowning sinners trying to claw their way onto Noah's Ark are caught in flashbulb moments of terror and agony; Saul's army rends the raw meat of their slaughter as they try to avoid starvation; the mutilated corpses of Baanah and Rechab dangle from nooses in Hebron; the boiled heads of donkeys emerge from the cooking pot as starving Israelites look on with hungry eyes; Daniel's horned beast crushes a mountain of screaming men and women as it stalks the land; and in Revelations, the rains of fire, floods and famine lay waste to cities as horribly burned famine victims scream and claw at their flesh. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect. ❋ Brad Thor (2004)

He added that so-called flashbulb memory of the kind that I had can be incredibly vivid and still be very wrong. ❋ David Carr (2010)

It's funny that the "fake news" program The Daily Show may edit its interviews to make the interviewee look silly, but in their news portion they always add the "flashbulb" effect between cuts to show that something's been edited out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even memories of highly emotionally charged events - so-called "flashbulb" memories - are just as likely to suffer this distortion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Don't fret though, Phil's been allowed back into the 'reality-based community' fold today with his latest tweet: "Also, that 'flashbulb' I saw in Draco was almost certainly an ❋ Unknown (2009)

ABC News has learned the bomb was composed of tanks of propane, butane and 125 liters of gasoline (33 U.S. gallons), roofing nails and a fuse that initial reports indicated was constructed of simple light bulb or flashbulb filaments and designed to be triggered by a mobile telephone .... ❋ Unknown (2010)

What the police did remember to do was take my mug shot, and I faced my first flashbulb moment within minutes of leaving the cell. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

I had to finish my last novel and wait two weeks before I suddenly had my flashbulb moment of what the story had been about all along. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is how experts used to think about "flashbulb memories", so‑called because of their remarkable vividness. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It was already fading, and there was nothing to gauge its distance against; it could have been a flashbulb a few meters away, or a supernova a few dozen light-years off. ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

In college, Mr. Leonard accidentally devised his backlighting technique when a flashbulb directed at a subject's face failed to go off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When a lesson starts with humor, there is more alerting, and the subsequent information is attached to the positive emotional event as an event or flashbulb memory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was into this spotlight that brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, the young New York directors of festival darling Daddy Longlegs, arrived yesterday afternoon, Jan. 25 — nottoeven the singleshock of a flashbulb. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As she led me from entryway to dining alcove to bedroom she seemed to stomp down each foot with angry emphasis, but when she turned to relate some crucial point about window lighting or square footage her smile flared at me like the flashbulb of a camera. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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