English Online Dictionary. What means dash? What does dash mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæʃ/
- Rhymes: -æʃ
Noun
dash (plural dashes)
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
- Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:dash
- Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:punctuation mark
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- Synonyms: rush, sprint
- When the feds came they did the dash.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- Synonyms: spurt, surge, thrust
- Violent strike; a whack.
- Synonyms: blow, knock, thwack
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Synonyms: drop, skoosh, soupçon; see also Thesaurus:modicum
- (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
- Synonyms: element, hint, touch
- Ostentatious vigor.
- Synonyms: energy, vim, vitality
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- Synonyms: douceur, sweetener; see also Thesaurus:bribe, Thesaurus:gift
- (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
- Synonyms: beep, blankety-blank
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
- Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
- Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
- 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524
- Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?
- Short for dashboard.
- Synonyms: control panel, instrument panel
- (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.
- Synonym: graphical user interface
- 2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392:
- -i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.
- 2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page:
- i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dash.
Derived terms
- dashing
- (typography): em dash, en dash, mutton dash, nine-dash line, nut dash, oblique dash, quotation dash, swung dash, wave dash, wedge-and-dash
- (dashboard): dashcam, dash cam
Translations
See also
Punctuation
Verb
dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- Synonyms: bolt, rush, sprint
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- Synonyms: go, take off; see also Thesaurus:leave
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- Synonyms: beat, whack; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- Synonyms: chuck, feck, fling, sling; see also Thesaurus:throw
- (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- Synonyms: dust, powder, sparge, scatter, speckle, strew
- (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
- Synonyms: adulter, corrupt, debase, pollute, sophisticate
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- Synonyms: snuff, wreck; see also Thesaurus:kill, Thesaurus:destroy
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- Synonyms: deject, depress; see also Thesaurus:sadden
- (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- (transitive, dated, euphemistic) Damn (in forming oaths).
- Synonyms: darn, eff, frig
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
dash
- (euphemistic) Damn!
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dammit
Derived terms
- dash it
Translations
See also
- hyphen
- minus sign
Anagrams
- ASDH, dhas, SAHD, aSDH, shad, Shad, Sadh, dahs, ADHs
Albanian
Etymology
Potentially from Early Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰows-o-s (compare English deer, Lithuanian daũsos (“upper air; heaven”)).
Noun
dash m (plural desh, definite dashi, definite plural deshtë)
- ram (male sheep)
Derived terms
- Dash
References
Eastern Ojibwa
Adverb
dash
- so, and
References
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 143
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English dash.
Noun
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)
- a dash (small amount)
- short for dashbord.
References
- “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English dash.
Noun
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)
- a dash (small amount)
- short for dashbord.
References
- “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Ojibwe
Alternative forms
- idash
- -sh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdaʃ/
Adverb
dash
- and, and then, then
- but
Usage notes
dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated with but.
Derived terms
- aaniin dash (“why?”)
- mii dash (“and then”)
See also
- aanawi (“although, but”)
- apii (“then”)
- gaye (“as for, also”)
- miinawaa (“and again”)
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj