flashbackn.
/ˈflaʃbak/, U.S. /ˈflæʃˌbæk/ 1. (See quots. and cf. flash v.1 9c.)
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > flaming or blazing > emission of flames > back down a tube
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1903 Motoring Ann. 306 The highly inflammable vapour of petrol, and a ‘flash-back’, resulted in the total destruction of the car.
1963 Times 27 Feb. 4/5 Three electricians were taken to hospital with burns after a flashback and fire in the power house at the Premier Flour Mills, Silvertown, E.
2. Cinematography. A scene which is a return to a previous action in the film, a cutback n.; hence, a revival of the memory of past events, as in a pictorial or written presentation. (See flash n.2 1e, and flash v.1 12b.)
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of > in visual form
flashback1916
back-flash1957
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > flashback or flashforward
flashback1916
flashforward1928
prolepsis1961
analepsis1978
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > short inserted scene > flashback or flashforward
cutback1913
flashforward1928
flashback1947
1916 Variety 13 Oct. 28/4 In other words the whole thing is a flash-back of the episodes leading up to her marriage.
1928 J. Gallishaw Only Two Ways to write Story i. vii. 177 With Sunk the method of presentation was chronological... In the case of Paradise Island the method is reversed. The order instead of being chronological is anti-chronological: it is the flash-back method.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. vii. 487 When goddesses and Sea Ladies vanish and a flash back to the ancestral chimpanzee abolishes the magic caverns of Venus, human beings arrive.
1947 Times 1 Nov. 6/4 The film relates, in a prolonged flash-back, how the innocent Indian became corrupted by bewildering contact with those supposed to be his superiors in civilization.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 July 453/2 In his new novel..[he] uses with enviable ease a complicated system of flash-backs.
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