Flash and Lamp

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

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Lamp and flash are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lamp" instead the word "Flash" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: flashy, flashed, flashing, flasher, flashback

Lamp noun - Something that provides illumination.

Usage example: I didn't realize it had gotten so dark in the room until my wife came in and turned on the lamp, momentarily blinding me

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Flash and lamp are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flash" instead the word "Lamp" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: lamping, lampion

In the arcade game Roc 'n' Rope, the Climber's head-lamp worked like a camera flash.

Source: Blinded by the Light
Sometimes even the ridiculously exagerrated explosion sound of a turn-of-last-century flash lamp stuffed with magnesium powder is used.

Source: Stock Sound Effects aka: Stock Sound Effect
When Green Lantern asks why Flash, of all people, would need a van, he clicks a remote control that causes it to start rocking, and then shows off how the back is outfitted with a couch, stereo, and lava lamp like a mobile bachelor pad.

Source: Don't Come A-Knockin'

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