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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."





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"Dash" Quotes from Famous Books



... in its capture by the Athenians. The Lacedaemonian Brasidas, however—who had distinguished himself at Pylos—effected an entry, so that the oligarchical and Peloponnesian party became permanently established in power. The most important operations were now in two fields. Brasidas made a dash through Thessaly into Macedonia, in alliance with Perdiccas of Macedon, with the hope of stirring the cities of Chalcidice to throw off the Athenian yoke; and the democrats of Boeotia intrigued with Athens to assist in a general revolution. Owing partly to misunderstandings and partly ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
... thought of his home. Good heavens, what a relief it was to think of snow and cold in that stifling heat! You drive in a sledge, all at once the horses take fright at something and bolt.... Regardless of the road, the ditches, the ravines, they dash like mad things, right through the village, over the pond by the pottery works, out across the open fields. "Hold on," the pottery hands and the peasants sho ut, meeting them. "Hold on." But why? Let the keen, cold wind beat in one's face and bite one's ...
— The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... chance I close mine eyes in sleep, The specter—fatal vision!—instantly Shows itself in my dreams, and tears the breast, Already mangled, with a furious hand, And thence draws both its palms full of dark blood, To dash it in my face! On dreadful nights Follow more dreadful days. In a long death I live my life. Daughter,—whate'er I am, Thou art my daughter still,—dost thou not weep ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells
... the wrong end. The feast should have closed, not inaugurated, the dash for the crown. They who feast when they should fight are likely to end their mirth with sorrow. David's one stroke was enough. They were as sure as Nathan and Bathsheba had been that the declaration of his wish would carry all Israel ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... was correct. Great masses of vapor soon came pouring over Storm King, and the sky grew blacker every moment. The wind blew in strong, fitful gusts, and yet the air was almost sultry. By four o'clock the rain began to dash with almost the violence of a summer shower against the windowpanes of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford's sitting-room, and it grew so dark that Amy could scarcely see to read the paper to the old gentleman. Suddenly she was startled by a flash, and she looked ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe


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