dash

(countable, uncountable)(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.

(countable, uncountable)A short run, flight.

When the feds came they did the dash.

Đồng nghĩa: rush, sprint

(countable, uncountable)A rushing or violent onset.

Đồng nghĩa: spurt, surge, thrust

(countable, uncountable)Violent strike; a whack.

Đồng nghĩa: blow, knock, thwack

(countable, uncountable)A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

Add a dash of vinegar.

Đồng nghĩa: drop, skoosh, soupçon, ace, atom, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit

(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.

There is a dash of craziness in his personality.

Đồng nghĩa: element, hint, touch

(uncountable)Ostentatious vigor.

Aren't we full of dash this morning?

Đồng nghĩa: energy, vim, vitality

(Nigeria, countable, uncountable)(Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, countable, uncountable) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.

Đồng nghĩa: douceur, sweetener, backhander, bribe, bung, coffee money, cold drink money, dash, douceur, inducement, kopi money, pay-off, payola, subornation, sweetener, tea money, benefaction, boon, concession, donative, fairing, gift, grant, present, tithing

(countable, dated, euphemistic, uncountable)A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)

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?'.

Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?

Đồng nghĩa: beep, blankety-blank

(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of dashboard.

Đồng nghĩa: control panel, instrument panel

(India, UK, countable, uncountable)A prime symbol.

(intransitive)To run quickly or for a short distance.

He dashed across the field.

Đồng nghĩa: bolt, rush, sprint

(informal, intransitive)To leave or depart.

I have to dash now. See you soon.

Đồng nghĩa: go, take off, beat it, bug off, remove, bugger off, book, bounce, buzz off, chuck, cut one's stick, dash, depart, duck out, exit, get away, get out, go, go away, go out, GTFO, leave, make tracks, move on, namous, part, piss off, pull up stakes, put out, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, run along, sling one's hook, split, take off, take leave, take one's leave, take wing, quit

(transitive)To destroy by striking (against).

He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

Đồng nghĩa: beat, whack, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, calcitrate, cuff, dab, dash, dowse, feeze, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, kick, knock, hammer, hit, impact, jerk, lambaste, lay into, lay on, lunge, patter, pat, pelt, pink, poke, pummel, punch, pound, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, rap, slam, slap, smack, smite, spank, strike, swap, swinge, vapulate, whack, whip, yerk

(transitive)To throw violently.

The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

Đồng nghĩa: chuck, feck, fling, sling, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

(ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes)(ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.

Đồng nghĩa: dust, powder, sparge, scatter, speckle, strew

(dated, transitive)To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.

to dash wine with water

Đồng nghĩa: adulter, corrupt, debase, pollute, sophisticate, abase, adulter, adulterate, adulterize, alloy, balderdash, corrupt, bastardize, dash, dilute, embase, sophisticate

(transitive)(transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.

Đồng nghĩa: snuff, wreck, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck

(transitive)To dishearten; to sadden.

Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

Đồng nghĩa: deject, depress, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset

(transitive)(transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.

He dashed down his eggs.

She dashed off her homework.

(transitive)To draw or write quickly; jot.

(dated, euphemistic, transitive)Damn (in forming oaths).

Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?

Đồng nghĩa: darn, eff, frig

(euphemistic)Damn!

Đồng nghĩa: 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer, byrlady, consarn it, crap, crud, curses, dammit, damn, dadgummit, dagnabbit, dang, dang it, darn, darn it, dash, dash it, dizamn, d'oh, doggone, doggonit, drat, fark, feck, fiddle, fiddlefart, fiddlestick, fiddlesticks, fook, frak, frick, fuck, fuck me, fudge, goddamn, goshdarn, goddammit, goshdarnit, good grief, gorblimey, hang it all, heck, hell, hell's bells, hell's bloody bells, hell's bloody bells and damnation, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, ish, Mother of God, nuts, phooey, piss, poo, raasclaat, rats, shit, shoot, shucks, son of a bitch, son of a gun, sugar