dash

dash

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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)

  1. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
    1. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
  2. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
  3. A short run, flight.
    When the feds came they did the dash.
  4. A rushing or violent onset.
  5. Violent strike; a whack.
  6. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
    Add a dash of vinegar.
  7. (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
    There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
  8. Ostentatious vigor.
    Aren't we full of dash this morning?
  9. A dashboard.
  10. (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
  11. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
    • 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?
  12. (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
    • 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.

Hypernyms

  • punctuation mark

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus: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)

  1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
  3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
  4. (transitive) To throw violently.
  5. (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
  6. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
  7. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
  8. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
  9. (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
  10. (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
  11. (transitive, dated, euphemistic) Damn (in forming oaths).

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

dash

  1. (euphemistic) Damn!

Derived terms

  • dash it

Translations

See also

  • hyphen
  • minus sign

Anagrams

  • ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, Shad, dahs, shad

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)

  1. ram (male sheep)

Derived terms

  • Dash

References

Eastern Ojibwa

Adverb

dash

  1. 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)

  1. a dash (small amount)
  2. 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)

  1. a dash (small amount)
  2. short for dashbord.

References

  • “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

  • idash
  • -sh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaʃ/

Adverb

dash

  1. and, and then, then
  2. 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

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