flashback
English
Etymology
flash + back
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflæʃ.bæk/
- Hyphenation: flash‧back
Noun
flashback (plural flashbacks)
- (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
- Synonym: analepsis
- (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
- Coordinate term: reminiscence
- A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
- 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski:
- Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation? / The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.
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- The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
- (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
- 2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference (page 497)
- As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table flashbacks.
- 2004, Gavin J. T. Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples (page xxv)
- […] less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version flashbacks, and parallel queries.
- 2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference (page 497)
Derived terms
- (dramatic device): inception flashback
- (flame): flashback arrestor
Descendants
- → German: Flashback
- → Spanish: flashback
- → Norwegian: flashback
- → Portuguese: flashback
Translations
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Verb
flashback (third-person singular simple present flashbacks, present participle flashbacking, simple past and past participle flashbacked)
- (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
Synonyms
- flash back
See also
- flashforward
Further reading
- flashback (narrative) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- flashback (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- backflash, half-backs, halfbacks
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English flashback.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: flash‧back
Noun
flashback m (plural flashbacks, diminutive flashbackje n)
- flashback
Synonyms
- terugblik
Italian
Alternative forms
- flash-back
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɛʃˌbɛk/, /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/
- Rhymes: -ɛk
- Hyphenation: flàsh‧back
Noun
flashback m (usually invariable, plural (dated) flashbacks)
- flashback
Further reading
- flashback in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌflɛ.ʃiˈbɛ.ki/, /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/, /ˌflɛ.ʃiˈbɛ.ki/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌflaʃˈbɛk/ [ˌflaʃˈβɛk]
Noun
flashback m (plural flashbacks)
- (narratology) flashback (earlier event inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative)
Romanian
Etymology
From English flashback.
Noun
flashback n (plural flashbackuri)
- flashback
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) flashback | flashbackul | (niște) flashbackuri | flashbackurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) flashback | flashbackului | (unor) flashbackuri | flashbackurilor |
vocative | flashbackule | flashbackurilor |
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflaʃbak/ [ˈflaʃ.β̞ak]
- Rhymes: -aʃbak
Noun
flashback m (plural flashbacks)
- flashback
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “flashback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014