dash
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Is dash a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
2. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
3. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.broadly
4. (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.Examples: "There is a dash of craziness in his personality."Synonyms: element, hint, touchbroadlyfiguratively
5. (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.Examples: "The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa."; "Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law, from 8 to 20 rods according to the status of the man[…]The dowry is made small because whatsoever a woman farms or reaps during her life time is by native custom the property of her parents.""; "The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars."Synonyms: douceur, sweetener, backhander, bribe, bung, coffee money, cold drink money, dashNigeria
6. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)Examples: "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?"Synonyms: beep, blankety-blankdatedeuphemistic
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.Examples: "He dashed across the field."; "As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained."Synonyms: bolt, rush, sprintintransitive
2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.Examples: "I have to dash now. See you soon."Synonyms: go, take off, beat it, bug off, remove, bugger off, book, bounceinformalintransitive
3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).Examples: "He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight."; "There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel."; "Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes."Synonyms: beat, whack, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blowtransitive
4. (transitive) To throw violently.Examples: "The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident."; "If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound."; "The rooks are blown about the skies; The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d, The cattle huddled on the lea; And wildly dash’d on tower and tree The sunbeam strikes along the world: […]"Synonyms: chuck, feck, fling, sling, bung, cast, chuck, chunktransitive
5. (ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.Examples: "On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall."; "The very source and fount of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night."; "[W]hen I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care to dash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured applications."Synonyms: dust, powder, sparge, scatter, speckle, strewambitransitivefigurativelysometimes
6. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.Examples: "to dash wine with water"Synonyms: adulter, corrupt, debase, pollute, sophisticatedatedtransitive
intj (English)
1. (euphemistic) Damn!Synonyms: 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer, byrlady, consarn iteuphemistic
name (English)
1. (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.rare
name (English)
1. (web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.abbreviationacronymalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary