dash

Etymology
From, , from , related to 🇨🇬, of obscure origin. Compare,. See also.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of the following symbols: ‒, – , — , or ―.
 * 2)  A hyphen or minus sign.
 * 3)  The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
 * 4) A short run, flight.
 * 5) A rushing or violent onset.
 * 6) Violent strike; a whack.
 * 7) A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
 * Add a dash of vinegar.
 * 1)  A slight admixture.
 * There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
 * 1) Ostentatious vigor.
 * Aren't we full of dash this morning?
 * 1) A dashboard.
 * 2)  A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
 * 3) * 1853,, , 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?'.
 * 1) * 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?
 * 1)  The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
 * 1) * 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?
 * 1)  The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:dash

Translations

 * Arabic: شَحْطَة, شَرْطَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: شَرْطَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: праця́жнік
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , párbeszédjel
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: dais, fleasc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 줄표
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: brūkšnys
 * Macedonian: цр́та, тире́
 * Maori: pīhono
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: bindestrek
 * Bokmål: tankestrek, bindestrek
 * Persian: خط تیره
 * Polish: (punctuation mark, any form),  (en dash),  (em dash)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, linie de pauză,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgrìob
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: црта, цртица
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: pomlčka
 * Slovene: pomišljaj
 * Spanish:, guion largo
 * Swahili: kistariungio
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: тире́, ри́ска
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh: ystremp, ystrempiau


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: μακρόν,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 長点
 * Macedonian: тире́
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:, спринт
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sprinto
 * Finnish: spurtti, pinkaisu, kipaisu
 * French:
 * German:, , , Blitzstart
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: nekiiramodás,, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: corridinha
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: deann, leum
 * Spanish: carrerita
 * Ukrainian: спринт


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: anstrøk,
 * Nynorsk: dash
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: ; pikkulahja


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To run quickly or for a short distance.
 * 2)  To leave or depart.
 * 3)  To destroy by striking (against).
 * 4)  To throw violently.
 * 5)  To sprinkle; to splatter.
 * 6)  To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
 * 7)  To ruin; to destroy.
 * 8)  To dishearten; to sadden.
 * 9)  To complete hastily.
 * 10)  To draw or write quickly; jot.
 * 11)  Damn.
 * 1)  To sprinkle; to splatter.
 * 2)  To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
 * 3)  To ruin; to destroy.
 * 4)  To dishearten; to sadden.
 * 5)  To complete hastily.
 * 6)  To draw or write quickly; jot.
 * 7)  Damn.
 * 1)  To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
 * 2)  To ruin; to destroy.
 * 3)  To dishearten; to sadden.
 * 4)  To complete hastily.
 * 5)  To draw or write quickly; jot.
 * 6)  Damn.
 * 1)  To dishearten; to sadden.
 * 2)  To complete hastily.
 * 3)  To draw or write quickly; jot.
 * 4)  Damn.
 * 1)  To draw or write quickly; jot.
 * 2)  Damn.
 * 1)  Damn.
 * 1)  Damn.
 * 1)  Damn.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: втурвам се, спринтирам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: sprintovat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: sprinti
 * Finnish:, , , syöksähtää,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, , , , , , , , hereinstürzen, hinausstürzen
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,  ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: се вле́та, се вту́рна, вр́ви, спри́нтува
 * Maori: karapetapeta, tuoma
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leum
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , , störta (iväg), jaga (iväg), sno (iväg)


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Macedonian: на́пушти
 * Polish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Macedonian: ра́збие
 * Maori: tātā, taitai
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tamil: இடாசு


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: guindar, ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Macedonian: фр́ли
 * Polish:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French: ,
 * German:, , , herunterstürzen


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, murskaantua
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Macedonian: у́ништи, по́пари
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Macedonian: обеску́ражи
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: приводи́ть в уны́ние, привести́ в уны́ние, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: snel afhaspelen, snel afmaken
 * Finnish: hutaista, huitaista
 * French:
 * German:, herunterstürzen
 * Hungarian:
 * Spanish: hacer rápidamente


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sutaista
 * German:, stricheln

Interjection

 * 1)  Damn!

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: a fene egye meg,

Etymology
Potentially from Early, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) ram (male sheep)

Adverb

 * 1) so, and

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a

Adverb

 * 1) and, and then, then
 * 2) but
 * 1) 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.