Dash

Definition: Dash

Dash

Noun

1. Distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer".

2. A quick run.

3. A footrace run at top speed; "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash".

4. A punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text.

5. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

6. The act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door".

Verb

1. Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard".

2. Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate".

3. Hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock".

4. Destroy or break; "dashed ambitions and hopes".

5. Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal".

6. Add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Dash \Dash\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Dashed; Dashing.]. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Literature

Personal Care & Hotels

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DASH

DASH

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dash

Activity

Noun: activity; briskness, liveliness; Adjective: animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy; snap, vim.

Courage

Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance.

Dejection

Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.

Haste

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

Impulse

Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish).

Indication

Put an indication, put a mark; Noun: note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.

Mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick.

Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~".

Mixture

Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

Tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.

Ostentation

Noun: ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage, pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss.

Ship

Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Velocity

Spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate; Adjective: rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight.

Crosswords: Dash

Albanian (battering ram, ram), Manx (dash, heap, small pile).

That sounds great, melted candy inside the dash. That really ups the resale value (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner, Fred Wolf)

Dash into shore, cut across shipping lanes (The Perfect Storm; writing credit: William D. Wittliff)

Don't touch any of the buttons on the dash. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch)

Daniel, because you violated Section 4219 2R9-4000 6 dot 1 dash 7, B, of the code of Babylon, forbidding prayer to anyone but King Darius- you are hereby sentenced to be consumed by the lions (VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared?; writing credit: Norma Marcos)

See the steering wheel is fendi dash board Armani (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

Stash in the dash (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous)

Sell a million records and we'll make in a dash (This Is How We Do It; performing artist: Montell Jordan)

Ready, set, make the dash, (Code Red; performing artist: Prince)

Dash akol (1971)

Props' Dash for Cash (1925)

A Dash of Courage (1916)

Lieutenant Pimple's Dash for the Pole (1914)

A Dash for Liberty (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Dash of Scandal (reference)

• A Dash of Temptation (Men to Do) (reference)

• A Hell of a Dog: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery (reference)

• Colorado Wings: Four Inspirational Love Stories With a Dash of Intrigue (reference)

• Moon Dash Warrior: The Story of an American Indian in Vietnam, a Marine from the Land of the Lumbee (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Dash Galaxy (reference)

• Mad Dash (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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It's tough to run a 100-yard dash on Kalgin Island SURVEYOR personnel in the mud. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Thomas B. Dash, M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Olympic games at Amsterdam, Holland. The finish of the 100 meter dash finals, won by Percy Williams. Credit: Library of Congress.

Photo finish of the 100-meter dash at the 1948 Olympic games, won by Harrison Dillard--Also running are E. McDonald Bailey, Alastair McCorquodale, Lloyd Berrington LaBeach, Barney Ewell, and Mel Patton. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jesse Owens beating George Case in 100-yard dash at Cleveland Stadium. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Eulance Peacock, member of the 1930 American Olympic Team and co-holder with Jesse Owens of the world's 100-yard dash record, leads a class in sitting up exercises at Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training stati. Credit: Library of Congress.

Marines. Invasion maneuvers. In a simulated invasion, U.S. Marines leap from the landing barges which ferried them from their transport vessels to the shore and dash through the surf to take up positions on the beach. This picture was taken during maneuve. Credit: Library of Congress.

Travers Island, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration at the Norwegian gunners' school. Finish of the 100-yard dash. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Leah Cate winning the 70 yard dash for women at the Geo. Wash. University inter class track meet today Central stadium. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash upon the ground

They did not dash away to inspect the place

For I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy

Though it is now dark, the mind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "dash": at a dash ♦ at one dash ♦ brick outer walls with dry dash finish ♦ cut a dash ♦ dash about ♦ dash after ♦ dash against ♦ dash away a tear ♦ dash by ♦ dash down ♦ Dash etch ♦ dash hopes ♦ dash in ♦ dash it all! ♦ dash it! ♦ dash lamp ♦ dash light ♦ dash my buttons! ♦ dash of a few lines ♦ dash of the pen ♦ dash off ♦ dash one's hopes ♦ dash out ♦ dash screen ♦ dash smb.'s hopes ♦ dash smb.'s spirits ♦ dash the cup from one's lips ♦ dash to pieces ♦ em dash ♦ en dash ♦ launch into orbit dash ♦ make a dash ♦ make a dash against the enemy ♦ make a dash at smth. ♦ Morse dash ♦ pebble dash ♦ slap dash ♦ swung dash ♦ To cut a dash. Additional references.

Beginning with "dash": dash-and-hide, dash-board, dash-dot, dash-mounted, dash-pot, dash-pots, Dash-yondon.

Ending with "dash": pebble-dash.

Containing "dash": dot-and-dash code, spring-dash-pot.

Albanian

shahem (darn, scrap), goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), grimë (bit, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), hedhje (Bob, buck, cast, chuck, dart, disposal, drop, fling, flirt, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pitch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss), hidhem (bounce, bound, caper, Frisk, hop, jig, jounce, jump, launch, leap, lunge, peg, pounce, skip, spring, vault, Wade), hov (Ardor, ardour, burst, elan, glow, hop, hunch, jerk, run up, spasm), hutoj (abash, baffle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disorient, disorientate, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, pose, puzzle, wilder), lëvizje e shpejtë (dart, flight, flirt, scurry, whisk), lyerje (clearing, coloring, colouring, dab, daub, dying, painting, whitewashing), mallkoj (anathematize, ban, call down, curse, damn, darn, execrate, imprecate, swear, vituperate), nënvizoj (accentuate, emphasize, highlight, italicize, punctuate, score under, stress, underline, underscore), energji (drive, dynamism, energetics, energy, gumption, might, nerve, pepper, pith, power, push, steam, strenuousness, vigor, vigour, vim, young blood, zip), përziej (admix, adulterate, alloy, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, conglomerate, drag in, embark, emulsify, implicate, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, shuffle, stir), vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), skicë (cartoon, chart, delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, figure, freehand, outline, plan, profile, rough, sketch), spërkat (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), sulem (career, go for, hotfoot, make for, rush, swing, tear along, throw oneself, Wade), sulm (aggression, assault, attack, cannonade, charge, descent, drive, hit, inroad, mugging, offence, offensive, onfall, onset, onslaught, push, raid, razzia, rush, strike, thrust), trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), turrem (bolt, chase, come upon, fly, fly at, hare, pile off, pounce, rush, set on, spring), turrje (dart, rush, Sally), vërsulem (dart, rush, rush in, sail in, shoot ahead, swing), vendosmëri (dead set, decision, decisiveness, determination, firmness, flatness, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, steadiness), vizë (line, pothook, visa, vise), vizë lidhëse (hyphen), përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, collide, crash, foul, hurtle, jar, pound, run into, splash, wash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلاطم (conflict, popple, welter), ‏إستعجل (bustle, hasten, press, spring, surge), ‏إندفاع (break, burst, dive, drift, fling, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, lunge, onrush, prod, raciness, rush, scramble, surge, tear), ‏إندفع (bicker, break out, fling, flush, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, scramble, stampede, stream, surge, swarm, tumble, urge, zip), ‏إنطلاق (airiness, break, discharge, flight, get away, kick, licking, rush, starting, take off), ‏إنطلق (career, get away, go, lick, pull away, push off, scud, set out, shove off, split, spout, spring, spurt, start, start off, start out, take out, tee off, waft), ‏خجل (abash, bashfulness, be ashamed, blush, diffident, efface oneself, make shy, mantle, redden, shame, shy, shyness, timidity), ‏خط فاصل (borderer, watershed), ‏عجل (accelerate, advance, anticipate, bicker, bullock, calf, expedite, hasten, hurry, hustle, precipitate, run, speed, speed up, tire, veal), ‏إطلاق (cast, emission, exoneration, liberation, projection, release, releasing, shot, slip), ‏سحب (call, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏مقدار ضئيل (crumb, dab, dribble, element, glimmer, hint, mouthful, nip, peanut, smack, trace, trifle, whit), ‏حركة (activity, business, drift, motion, move, movement, stir), ‏حطم (break, break up, crack, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), ‏حيوية (activity, animation, drive, elan, energy, ginger, life, liveliness, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vitality, vivacity, youthfulness, zest, zing, zip), ‏وابل (barrage, fusillade, hail, spray, torrent), ‏قذف بعنف (hurtle, slat), ‏نجز بسرعة, ‏هجوم (aggression, assault, attack, blow, offence, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, pounce, push, raid, rush, swoop), ‏مزج (admix, admixture, blend, blending, carbonize, combination, combine, commingle, commix, hash, incorporate, interlace, interweave, mingle, mingling, mix up, mixing, mixing up, mixture), ‏سباق (competition, contest, outrigger, race, racing). (various references)

Basque

marra. (various references)

Bulgarian 

блъскам (beat, bump up against, hammer, hustle, jostle, knock, moil, pound, press, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, squash, strike, thump), засрамвам (abash, discountenance, shame), замах (panache, snap, swing, swish, swoop, verve), запращам (aim, drive, hurl, leg it, pitch, project, send, smash, sock, speed, throw, whirl), жизненост (animalism, juice, life, pep, pith, pizzazz, pulse, staying power, vigor, vigour, vitality, vivacity), елегантност (cachet, distinction, elegance, elegancy, fineness, grace, gracefulness, graces, neatness, polish, style, stylishness), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), блъскам се (beat about, crash, crowd, hurtle, jar, plod, press forward, puzzle, snag), оплесквам (besmear, dub, foozle, foul up, hash, louse up, make a mess, make sad work of, mess, muddle, muff, screw up, slobber, spatter, splash, sully), блясък (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fire, flash, glamor, glamour, glance, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glossiness, heraldry, illumination, irradiation, lambency, light, luminance, luminosity, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), пробег (run), примесвам (admix, interlard, intermix, mix, mix in, shoot through, spice), примес (admixture, adulterant, alloy, dross, impurity, infusion, intermixture, touch), плисване, плисвам (fling, pour down, slop, throw), бързо движение (flirt, scud, touch and go, twinkle, twinkling, whisk), тласкам (drive, fillip, guide, hustle, impact, impel, jerk, propel, push, thrust), сломявам (beat down, break, wear down), сблъсквам се (clash, collide, foul, jar, shock), спринт (sprint), разредявам малко, разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), щриха (line), малко количество (bit, dab, dollop, dreg, dribblet, drop, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, relish, scantling, smatter, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot, trickle), тръшкам (slam down, slap down), натъжавам (grow sad, sadden), тиренце, тире (em-rule), втурвам се (dart, flounce in, hurl, intrude, rush, skitter, streak off, tear, tear along), охлаждам (chill, condense, cool, damp, freeze, ice, nip, quench, refrigerate), опръсквам (bespatter, perfuse), устрем (career, elan, impetus, onrush), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop). (various references)

Chinese 

衝撞 , 破折号 (Dashed). (various references)

Czech

trocha (squeeze, taste, touch), sprint (sprint), skok (bound, Dido, dive, hop, jump, leap, look in, prance, spring, vault), rozbít (break, break up, bust, crack, destroy, pitch, shatter, smash, sunder, wreck), pomlèka, přímìs (admixture, adulterant, ingredient), mrštit (chuck, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, pitch, pop, sling, strike, throw, toss), kapka (bead, blob, dab, dribblet, drip, drop), úder (beat, blow, buffet, bump, chop, coup, hit, percussion, push, rap, shock, stroke, swipe, thrust), èára (line), špetka (modicum, nip, sprinkling, taste, trace, trifle, whit). (various references)

Danish

tankestreg (en dash, en rule), streg (brass rule, line, rule). (various references)

Dutch

streep (line, ray, streak, strip, stripe, stroke). (various references)

Esperanto

panelo (dash-board, panel, wainscot). (various references)

Farsi 

فاصله میان دوحرف , پراکنده کردن (Disperse, Intersperse, Meddle), این علامت[ƒ], بسرعت انجام دادن , بسرعت رفتن (Race), بشدت زدن (Smash). (various references)

Finnish

ajatusviiva (em dash, em rule). (various references)

French

trait (dart), tiret, petite quantité. (various references)

German

strich (bow, direction of growth, grain, line, nap, oblique, point, prostitution, red light district, slash, streak, stretch, stroke, touch), Gedankenstrich. (various references)

Greek 

παύλα (pause), συντρίβω (batter, beat, crash, crush, demolish, grind down, knock the stuffing out of, lick, overwhelm, quash, shatter, shiver, smash, squelch, stun), ορμώ (bolt, burst into, dart, hurdle, hurtle, pour, rush, rush at, slat). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזרוק (cast, hurl, pelt, pitch, sprinkle, throw, toss), לזנק (dart, fling, gush out, leap, lunge, pounce, spring, spring forth, squirt, start, take off), לכתוב בחפזון, להגיח (attack suddenly, burst out, gush), לנוע בתנופה, לנפץ (detonate, explode, pound, shatter, shipwreck, smash, splinter), תנועה פתאומית (jerk), קורטוב (bit, iota, modicum, pinch, shade, smack, spot, taste, touch, trace), קו מפריד בכתיבה, זנוק (dart, jump, leap, pounce, sortie, spring, start, swoop, take off), התנגשות (clash, collision, conflict, crash, encounter, skirmish, smash), הסתערות (assault, attack, offence, offensive, onfall, onrush, onslaught, rush, surge), גיחה (debouchment, sortie). (various references)

Hungarian

összeütközés (bump, clash, clashing, collision, concourse, conflict, confrontation, cope, hurtling, impact, impingement), vágta (burst, gallop, sprint), csattanás (bang, clap, clash, click, crack, crash, smack, snap, spat, tang), gondolatjel (break, score), mínuszjel (minus sign, negative, negative sign), ütődés (bruise, bump, hit, jarring, jolt, shock), borravaló (gratification, gratuity, perks, perquisite, tip), előretörés (breaking away, breaking through, lunge, pushing forward, sudden advance, sudden attack), elevenség (animation, brio, buoyancy, get-up, liveliness, pep, snap, vivaciousness, vivacity, vividness), féktelenség (bluster, boisterousness, diablerie, impetuosity, licentiousness, rampageousness, rampancy, turbulence, unrestraint), fellobbanás (flare, flare-up, flash, flush), heves indulat, hirtelen támadás (coup de main, raid), élénkség (animation, exhilaration, friskiness, gaiety, ginger, go, liveliness, mercuriality, movement, pep, quickness, snap, sprightliness, vivacity), loccsanás (lap, plop, Popple, splash, splat), vonalka, megvesztegetés (bribe, corruption, greasing, payola, subornation), mersz (guts, spunk, stomach), nekiütődés (impact), nekiiramodás (run), nekilendülés (dart, sally, upsurge), nekirontás, szerelvényfal (dashboard), törlés (cancellation, deletion, dismemberment, erasure, obliteration, wipe, wiping), védőlap (mask, shield), vessző (comma, rod, stave, stick, wand), vonás (chalk, draw, feature, line, mil, rhumb, strain, tally, traction), kötőjel (hyphen). (various references)

Indonesian

sedikit (bit, breath, dribblet, exiguous, little), menghancurkan (disintegrate, pulverize), memukuli (beat, drub, thrash, trounce), kecergasan (activity, verve, vim). (various references)

Italian

trattino (hyphen), lineetta (hyphen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

躍進 (dancing ahead, onslaught, rush), 疾走 (scampering, sprint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ダッシュ , しっそう (abscondence, disappearance, scampering, sprint), うちあげる (to close, to finish, to launch, to shoot up, to wash up), ばくしん (center of an explosion, rush, shogunate retainer or vassal), やくしん (dancing ahead, drug rash, onslaught, rush). (various references)

Korean 

돌진 (Dashing, Rocketing, rushing). (various references)

Manx

slaa (bedaub, besmear, blotch of colour, daub, daubing, paint; blotting, painting, plaster, smarm, smear, smearing; dab of paint, spatter, spread, spreading), schimmeig (chevron, score, streak, stripe), sceolley, sceoll, ratch (burst of speed, dart, race, run, rush, sprint), dash (heap, small pile), bransey (dash out, smash, to throw violently), branse, bransal (dash out, smash, to throw violently), bashlagh (wash). (various references)

Norwegian

skvett. (various references)

Occitan

trach, rega (line). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashday.(various references)

Portuguese

traço (character, feature, score, smack, streak, stroke, track, trait, umbrage, vestige). (various references)

Romanian

descuraja (beat down, bring low, cast down, chill, damp, daunt, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), da buzna (burst, dash in), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), avânta (dart, soar), împroşca (bespatter, insult, pepper, spatter, splash, splatter, sputter), cursã scurtã, clipocit (lop, ripple, rippling), ciocnire (affair, bump, clash, click, collision, concussion, conflict, contradiction, encounter, foul, hit, impact, jar, jostle, passage, shock), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), goni (banish, career, chase, course, discard, dismiss, dispel, drive, flap away, Hunt, pack off, send, send away, shoo, start, sweep), şoc (concussion, hit, jar, jerk, jolt, kick, percussion, reaction, shock), avânt (approach, elan, enthusiasm, fire, flight, impetus, lift, momentum, run, soar, soaring, spring, take off, upsurge), atac (access, apoplexy, assault, attack, charge, fit, go, inroad, jump off, offence, offensive, onset, paroxysm, storm, stroke, touch), aruncãturã (fling, throw, toss), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), aparenţã strãlucitã, amesteca cu apa, înlãtura rapid, înfãţişare (air, appearance, aspect, behavior, behaviour, cast, countenance, description, face, figuration, figure, form, get, guise, hearing, lay, likeness, look, manner, mien, patina, physiognomy, presentation, representation, semblance, shape, similitude), azvârli cu puterea, nãrui (confound, crumble, defeat, destroy, raze, ruin, slip, snuff), zbura (career, dart, flash, flee, fleet, flight, flit, fly, fly out, hover, sail, slip, sweep, tower), stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crack, crush, cut, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), se precipita (fling, precipitate, rush, whirl along), se ivi pe neaşteptate (pop up), scrie în mare grabã, plescãit (flop, plash), fugi (career, chase, collide, course, disappear, elope, escape, flee, fly, fly off, give way, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scamper, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight), nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), zgomot (ado, bruit, bustle, clamor, clamour, din, fuss, hubbub, murmur, noise, peal, racket, rattling, roll, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, shouting, slam, sound, splutter, to-do, tumult, uproar), mişcare bruscã (dart, fling, flirt, flounce, hitch), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), liniuţã de despãrţire, liniuţã (hatch), lansa (circulate, deliver, deploy, discharge, drop, fling, float, hurl, initiate, launch, plug, project, release, send, set off, shoot, start, throw), la naiba (botheration, confound it, damnation, dash it all, deuce, devil take it, parbleu, zounds), izbiturã (bang, blow, bounce, bump, concussion, hit, jolt, knock, stroke), intra cu forţa (muscle in), pic (a wee bit, atom, bead, bit, crumb, drop, jot, pennyworth, pick, spark, spot, sprinkle, touch, whit). (various references)

Russian 

тире, порыв (burst, elan, fit, gust, puff, spontaneous movement, transport, waft), примесь чего-л., бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, drop, dump, fling, give over, give up, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, plant, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slinging, slings, slung, threw, throw, throw over, thrown, toss), бросаться (dashed, fling, flounce, fly at, pelt, plunge, pop, tear along), бросаться бросок, бросок (burst of energy, cast, fling, heave, jump, leap, pitch, shoot, shy, sling, throw), брызгать (sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, sputter), всплеск (hits, splash), понестись, штрих (line, touch, trait), стремительность (bang, elan, impetuosity, precipitance), толчок (cant, fillip, hitch, hitter, impetus, impulse, jab, jog, jolt, lunge, momentum, poke, push, shake, shock, stroke, thrust, toss), черточка, щит (gate, guard, mantelet, pad, pavis, screen, shield, windbreak), ринуться (dart, lunge, pelt), рывок (burst of energy, shoot, snatch, spurt, start, tug, yank), энергия (activity, energy, hustle, might, motive force, motive power, pep, power, vigor, vigour, vim), удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, bash, blow, box, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cob, cut, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, knock, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, wallop, well-judged blow, welt), столкновение (clash, collision, conflict, encounter, impact, jarring, jostle, passage at arms, passage of arms, percussion, smash, warfare), швырять (fling, slammed). (various references)

Scottish

sloisir (wash by working). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, destroy, do away with, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, take out, unmake, waste, weed out, wipe out, wreck), tresnuti (bash, slap), povlaka, poleteti (blast off, take off, wing), nalet (attack, burst, flurry, gust, rush, swoop), mala količina (dab, lick, little, modicum, sprinkling, tittle, trace), juriš (assault, attack, onset, onslaught, rush, storm), elan (elan, enthusiasm, panache, verve), crtica (hyphen, serif, streak), baciti (bung, cast, chuck, dart, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, peg, pitch, project, shoot, slap, sling, throw, throw out, toss). (various references)

Spanish

raya (crease, devilfish, hairline, line, Mark, parting, ray, score, scratch, sea devil, skate, streak, stria, strip, stripe), guión (continuity, Guidon, hyphen, leader, movie script, scenario, screenplay, script, shooting script). (various references)

Swedish

tankstreck (rule), slänga (chuck, dangle, fling, flip, gulp, send, shy, slam, swingle, throw, toss), rusa (beetle off, career, chase, dart, flit, flounce, fly, gallop, hare, hurry, hurtle, lunge, pelt, plunge, race, rush, scamper, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, sprint, stampede, storm, streak, tear, whirl away, zap). (various references)

Thai

พยายามหนีไปทาง (make a bolt / dash for). (various references)

Turkish

dolaştırmak (circulate, embrangle, entangle, entwine, foul, foul up, hand on, intwine, kink, knot, Ravel, take for a walk, tangle, trot round, walk, walk about, walk around, walk out), darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, facer, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), düş kırıklığina uğratmak, bir tutam (sprinkle of, sprinkling of, wispy), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), fışkırtmak (ejaculate, jet, splutter, spout, spurt, squirt), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), bir yudum (sip, snifter, swig, tot), hızlı koşma (sprint), bir damla (spot of), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), ataklık (impetuosity, mettle, militancy, spunk), atılmak (adventure, burst, dart, embark, embark upon, fling, fly, hurl oneself, launch out into, leap, make a dash, plunge, rip into, rush, shoot ahead, stand out, stand out against, start in, take a step, throw on, throw oneself into, throw upon, walk the plank), atılma (clutch, entrance, fling, plunge, pounce, rush, rush forward), atılganlık (dare devilry, dare deviltry, enterprise, hardihood, hardiness, venturesomeness), cesaretini kırmak (be a disincentive to, daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, enervate, screw up one's courage, tame, unman, unnerve), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), vurma (blip, hit, knock, knocking, percussion, percussive, pound, pounding, shoot, strike, swat), tire (hyphen), savurmak (blow about, brandish, bung, chuck, chuck away, flap, fling, hurl, hurtle, rip out, scatter, swing, throw out, thunder), savrulmak (be dispersed, be driven away, be scattered, flourish, fly, skid), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), sıçratmak (dabble, jump, slop, slosh, slosh on, slush, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, squirt), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), püskürtmek (atomize, beat off, belch, pulverization, pulverize, repel, repulse, spout, spray, spray on, squirt, vaporize, vomit), lanet etmek (blast, consign to perdition, curse, damn, execrate), karalamak (bedaub, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot out, breathe upon, calumniate, chalk out, dash down, dash off, denigrate, doodle, draw, line through, pollute, rule smth. out, scandalize, score out, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribble down, smudge, smut, strike through), kısa mesafeli koşu, hamle (attack, blow, burst, dart, drive, elan, lunge, move, onset, pounce, push, put, run up, scoop, scrum, scrummage, spurt), hücum (access, aggression, assault, attack, bully, charge, forage, incursion, offensive, onrush, onset, raid, rush, scrimmage, sortie, storm, thrust), saldırı (aggression, assault, attack, charge, invasion, offence, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, on-slaught, pounce, raid, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, thrust). (various references)

Turkmen 

topulmak (plunge, rush), okdurylmak (dart), garyndy (pinch (in cooking)), garnuw (pinch (in cooking)), зozmak (advance, rush). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрімкий рух (lunge, shoot), спринт (sprint), рішучість (decision, determination, firmness, fixedness, flatness, purpose, resoluteness, spirit, vigor, vigour), ривок (chuck, dart, flounce, jerk, spirt, sprint, spurt, wrest, yank), шпурляти (chop, chuck, shoot, shove, shove down), кидатися (chop, fling, go at, rush, throw), кидати (abandon, aim, buzz, cast, chop, chuck, dart, depart, desert, desolate, elance, fall away, fling, pack in, pelt, pitch, plonk, project, sling, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), нестися, натиск (bang, dint, inrush, onfall, onrush, onset, onslaught, powder, pressure, push, rush, stress), мчати (bucket, career, course, fly, hurtle, post, race, sail, scud, shoot ahead, shove along, tear along, waft, whiz, whizz, whoosh), зробити ривок у бігу, забіг, енергія (activity, bang, birr, energy, might, nerve, oomph, punch, push, sappiness, spring, vim, whiz, whizz, will, zap, zest), порив (appetition, ecstasy, gush, gust, waff). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng nước vỗ sự lao tới, tính táo bạo (boldness, manfulness, recklessness), tính kiên quyết vết, sự xông tới (onrush), sự va chạm (clash, hurtle, impact), sự nhảy bổ vào sự hăng hái, sự hăm hở (intentiness), sự đụng mạnh tiếng nước vỗ bờ, nghị lực (energy, pith, spirit, zip), chút xíu vẻ phô trương, ít (little, scant, scanty, shoestring, sip). (various references)

Welsh

ystremp (blotch, mess, streak). (various references)

inlisus. (various references)

cnossian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dash": dashboard, dashboards, dashed, dasheen, dasheens, dasher, dashers, dashes, dashi, dashier, dashiest, dashiki, dashikis, dashing, dashingly, dashis, dashpot, dashpots, dashy. (additional references)

Words ending with "dash": balderdash, slapdash. (additional references)

Words containing "dash": balderdashes, haberdasher, haberdasheries, haberdashers, haberdashery, slapdashes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adath, adish, daah, daaz, Dabhk, dach, Dagh, dahg, daho, dahs, daht, Daish, daksh, dalsh, Danh, daoh, daph, darh, dasa, dasf, dashe, dashi, Dasho, dashs, Dashut, Dasi, D'asq, dass, D'assi, Dassu, dast, dasy, dathy, daz, dazt, dazu, dazz, deash, dech, deh, desh, desho, Desq, deush, Dhah, diah, Disha, dishr, disht, Djassi, dmsu, doch, doush, Drazh, dsa, Duagh, Duhhh, dush, dzsh, odish, tash, vash. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dahs, shad.

-1 letter: ads, ash, dah, had, has, sad, sha.

-2 letters: ad, ah, as, ha, sh.

+1 letter: ashed, chads, dahls, dashi, dashy, deash, dhaks, dhals, hades, hadst, hands, hards, heads, sadhe, sadhu, shade, shads, shady, shard.

+2 letters: aholds, aphids, bashed, cashed, chards, chased, dachas, danish, dashed, dasher, dashes, dashis, deaths, fashed, gashed, hadjes, hadjis, halids, hashed, hasped, hasted, hexads, hoards, hodads, hondas, hydras, jadish, jehads, jihads, khadis, khedas, lashed, mashed, pashed, phased, radish, saddhu, sadhes, sadhus, sandhi, sashed, shaded, shader, shades, shadow, shaduf, shaird, shaled, shamed, shandy, shaped, shards, shared, shaved, shawed, sradha, washed.