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Dash   /dæʃ/   Listen
noun
Dash  n.  
1.
Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
2.
A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
3.
A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple. "Innocence when it has in it a dash of folly."
4.
A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain. "She takes upon her bravely at first dash."
5.
Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
6.
A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash. (Low)
7.
(Punctuation) A mark or line (), in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.
8.
(Mus.)
(a)
The sign of staccato, a small mark denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
(b)
The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
9.
(Racing) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.


verb
Dash  v. t.  (past & past part. dashed; pres. part. dashing)  
1.
To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; often used with against. "If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound."
2.
To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. "Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." "A brave vessel,... Dashed all to pieces." "To perplex and dash Maturest counsels."
3.
To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. "Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car."
4.
To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. "I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications." "The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night."
5.
To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
6.
To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; with out; as, to dash out a word.


Dash  v. i.  To rush with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks. "(He) dashed through thick and thin." "On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Dash" Quotes from Famous Books



... were lighted with hope. He made one grand, final dash, tripped in a noose that had somehow dropped neatly in the way of his front feet, and went down with a crash and a bellow of dismay. Some one ran lightly in—he did not see that it was the vaquero he had been pursuing all this time—and drove a dagger into the brain just back ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... early state of the work, when the smith was in the middle of a FAVOURITE HEAT in making some useful article, or in sharpening the tools, after the flood-tide had obliged the pickmen to strike work, a sea would come rolling over the rocks, dash out the fire, and endanger his indispensable implement, the bellows. If the sea was smooth, while the smith often stood at work knee-deep in water, the tide rose by imperceptible degrees, first cooling the exterior of the fireplace, or hearth, and then quietly blackening and extinguishing the ...
— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson
... in swift review before his mental eye. Brains? Dash? Spaciousness? Initiative? All present and correct. He wondered where Sally imagined ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... cattle-breeder, no Calvinistic predestinarian could put his view more vigorously than Emerson, who dearly loves a picturesque statement, has given it in these words, which have a dash of science, a flash of imagination, and a hint of the delicate wit that ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... transmitted as a group of short and long jets, indicated as 'dots' and 'dashes' on the paper. Thus the letter E, which is so common in English words, is now transmitted by a short jet which makes a dot; T, another common letter, by a long jet, making a dash; and Q, a rare letter, by the group dash, dash, dot, dash. Vail tried to compute the relative frequency of all the letters in order to arrange his alphabet; but a happy idea enabled him to save his time. He went to the office of the ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro


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