Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a flame which is consuming a combustible gas, to move back through the current of gas and burn at a point farther back than is desired.
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Examples
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Some had protested that the initial hari kiri scene was too long -- hence difficult to watch as opposed to the second half of the film, the backflash, which becomes an intense emotional family drama, filmed beautifully in a forest hut, behind dense green foliage the only time, for me, that the 3-D actually works rather than distracts.
Karin Badt: Cannes 2011: Director Takashi Miike Speaks About Samurai Ritual Suicide Karin Badt 2011
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When you finally got blood from the hard stickYou spotted the backflash of redAnd said Thank God.
The Stick Zackary Sholem Berger 2011
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Some had protested that the initial hari kiri scene was too long -- hence difficult to watch as opposed to the second half of the film, the backflash, which becomes an intense emotional family drama, filmed beautifully in a forest hut, behind dense green foliage the only time, for me, that the 3-D actually works rather than distracts.
Karin Badt: Cannes 2011: Director Takashi Miike Speaks About Samurai Ritual Suicide Karin Badt 2011
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How to create a film playing after the backflash scenes in Ultimatum without Damon?
Damon Says Next Bourne Might Be a Prequel Without Him « FirstShowing.net 2010
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I feel mired in the past just reading it, it is a backflash of what's wrong.
Obama Rips Rudy: "Has Taken Politics Of Fear To New Low 2009
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It seemed as though they had ridden through eternity, through a rainstorm that, paradoxically, had relieved the worst of the chaos backflash agony.
The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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There was, of course, practically no chance of keeping Ullerans from having native weapons, swords, knives, even bows and air-rifles, and a certain number of Volund-made trade-quality automatic pistols could be expected, but most of the fire was coming from military rifles, and now and then he could see the furnace-like backflash of a recoilless rifle or a bazooka, or the steady flicker of a machine-gun.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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There was, of course, practically no chance of keeping Ullerans from having native weapons, swords, knives, even bows and air-rifles, and a certain number of Volund-made trade-quality automatic pistols could be expected, but most of the fire was coming from military rifles, and now and then he could see the furnace-like backflash of a recoilless rifle or a bazooka, or the steady flicker of a machine-gun.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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This is designed to eliminate backflash down the fuel line and keep the torch head cool.
ScubaBoard 2010
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The DP-64 system designed by Bazalt is a grenade launcher that shoots like an assault rifle - it does not produce the jet steam backflash.
Pravda.Ru 2009
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