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Definitions: Lash |
LashNoun1. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids. 2. Leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip. 3. A quick blow with a whip. Verb1. Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced". 2. Lash about; flick sharply, as of animals' tails. 3. Strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face". 4. Bind with a rope, chain, or cord; "lash the horse". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | To attach a chain to a haulage rope by wrapping or lapping the end of the chain around the rope, the other end being attached to a mine wagon. (references) |
Shipping | A maritime industry abbreviation for "Lighter Aboard Ship." A specially constructed vessel equipped with an overhead crane for lifting specially designed barges and stowing them into cellular slots in an athwartship position. (references) |
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Synonyms: LashSynonyms: cilium (n), eyelash (n), thong (n), whiplash (n), flog (v), lather (v), slash (v), strap (v), trounce (v), welt (v), whip (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: slackest (transportation). |
| Antonym: unlash (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compulsion | Adverb: by force; Noun: by force of arms; on compulsion, perforce; vi et armis, under the lash; at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; forcibly; by a strong arm. |
Disapprobation | Reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet. |
Excitation | Irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury; (wrath). |
Inutility | Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible). |
Junction | Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span. |
Motive | Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate. |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. | |
Resentment | Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears. |
Scourge | Whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end. |
Subjection | Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. |
Violence | Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lash |
| English words defined with "lash": knout ♦ Lanier, lash out, lash together, Lashed, Lashng ♦ Rope's end ♦ Taws, thong, To lash out, trice, trice up ♦ Whala, whip, Whip-shaped, Whipstock ♦ Yerk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lash": BRIDGE OPERATOR, SLIP, bridge tender ♦ LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lasher-on ♦ Monkir, Moth ♦ Ocean ♦ Plet ♦ riding-crop ♦ SACHARUM OFFICINALE, Sea-Bee Vessels, slip tender, Storms ♦ wirehead. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lash": Backlash ♦ Overlash ♦ Verberate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They found my eye lash. (Gattaca; writing credit: Andrew Niccol) Dorkhead? You lash me with your words! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Lash out irrationally. (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) | |
Lyrics | That you made with your lash, ("The Masochism Tango"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lash of Lust (1974) Lace and Lash Agony of Love (1970) Lash of Lust (1962) The Black Lash (1952) Mark of the Lash (1948) | |
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![]() | Makes a sharp turn to starboard, while steaming in the Western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet, 9 July 1955. Photographed by PH1 D.L. Lash.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | They have felt the lash of public sentiment.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Richard Penlennon had just time to lift his wife and lash her to a spar.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Lash.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Dryden | Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The royalty of July reared, in spite of the lash, in the harness of the European cabinets. |
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Business | Spare capacity for special commodities and for unusually configured loads often leads to success, as we have seen in the shipment of U.S. manufactured steel railroad ties as LASH (lighter-aboard-ship) cargoes destined for inland storage areas that are accessed by river and canal. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yemen | The Supreme Court also upheld the lower court's sentence of $588 (100,000 riyals) fine for the newspaper and suspension for the editor in chief (who died in 1999). The Court also sentenced the editor and the author of the article (the editor's brother, Abd al-Jabbar Saad), to flogging with 80 strokes of a lash and 1 year journalistic suspension. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 40.16% of the time. "Lash" is used about 127 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 40.16% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 39.37% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 18.11% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.36% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 127 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lash" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lash | Last name | 3,000 | 3,969 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lash": eye lash ♦ get the lash ♦ lash about ♦ lash against ♦ lash along ♦ lash around ♦ lash back ♦ LASH carrier ♦ lash down ♦ lash into ♦ lash into a fury ♦ lash into expenditure ♦ lash into fury ♦ lash into madness ♦ lash into smb. ♦ lash into strong language ♦ lash of one's tongue ♦ lash on ♦ lash oneself into a fury ♦ lash out ♦ lash out against ♦ lash out at ♦ lash out on ♦ LASH ship ♦ lash together ♦ lash up ♦ LASH vessel ♦ lash with a scourge ♦ side lash ♦ To lash out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lash": lash-building, lash-out, lash-stitched, lash-up, lash-ups. | |
Ending with "lash": eye-lash, storm-lash, Tart-lash, tongue-lash, whip-lash. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lash out | 90 |
lisa lash | 46 |
whip lash | 37 |
lash larue | 30 |
eye lash | 29 |
false lash | 14 |
feather lash | 13 |
double lash | 13 |
group lash | 12 |
intensifique lash | 12 |
lash valve | 10 |
jennifer lash | 8 |
false eye lash | 8 |
lash leroux | 6 |
lash tint | 6 |
fast lash | 6 |
holster lash | 4 |
headset lash | 4 |
lash mark | 4 |
adjuster hydraulic lash | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lidh me litar (cable), valëvit (fly), sulmoj (assail, assault, attack, attempt, charge, dog, fall on, fall to, fly at, gain ground, gun for, harass, hit, hold up, jump, lace into, light into, mug, oppugn, raid, waylay), shkelmoj (boot, kick, spurn), rrah me kamzhik (flagellate, flog, sjambok), qepallë (eyelid, lid), kamzhik (discipline, flagellum, horsewhip, knout, quirt, scourge, sjambok, switch, whip), goditje me kamzhik, fshikulloj (flagellate, flick, flog, quirt, scourge, switch, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كرباج (scourge, whip), وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, show up, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), تنزل بغزارة, سوط (cat, horsewhip, knout, lashing, quirt, scourge, switch, whip), ضربة سوط, ضربة (bang, beating, belt, biff, blow, bob, bump, chap, clout, hurt, inflexion, infliction, pelt, plug, pulse, shot, smack, sock, strike, stroke, tank, thrust, wipe), ضرب بقوة (batter about, clout, pound, slog, smack, thump, thwack, triturate), جلدة (cut), جلد بالسوط (flick, sting, strap), جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), الجزء المرن من السوط, أنب (castigate, get it in the neck, moralize, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, task), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | клепка (lid), порицавам (anathematize, blame, censure, criminate, decry, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, upbraid, wig), принуда (bondage, coercion, constraint, duress, force, necessity, pressure, squeeze), бия с камшик (cat, cowhide, flay, flog, larrup, quirt, scourge, thong), бич (plague, quirt, scourge, whip), бичувам (castigate, discipline, flagellate, scourge, welt), замахвам (switch), завързвам към нещо, мигла (eyelash), махам (clean off, flap, get away, motion, pick, pull off, remove, rip away, switch, take away, wag, waggle), мятам се (flop about, flounce), държа се нервно, връзвам (bind, strap, tie, tie up), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), камшик (horsewhip, knout, scourge, thong, whip), шибам (beat, cut, drive, flog, scourge, slash, swinge, switch, whale), шибане (horsing, whipping), ритам (balk, boot, fling, kick, recoil, toe), разпенвам (churn, foam), разбивам се (beat, comb), разгневявам (anger, go mad, infuriate, warm), силно възбуждам (intoxicate), язвителна забележка (acid), свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bandage, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, link, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss, weld), удар на камшик, остра критика (thunder and lighting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鞭笞 (flog), 鞭" (flog, thrash, whip), 鞭' (castigate), 鞭子 (lash-up, WAND, Whip), 皮鞭 , 睫毛 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tepat (castigate, laminate, palpitate, pulsate, throb), mrskat (flap, flog, slash, swish, switch, whip), brva, bièovat (flagellate, flog, slash, whip), bièování (flagellation, lashing, whipping), řemínek (leash, strap, tie), šlehnutí (cut, flick, smack, whiplash), šlehat (beat, flog, gush out, sting, switch, whip, whisk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | LASH-skib (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), lægterkænguruskib (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), lægtebærende skib (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), transportfartøj (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), surre (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lichtersdragend vaartuig (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), lichterschip (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), LASH-schip (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), vastsjorren (lashing, to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up), vastbinden (bind, connect, fasten, join, moor, tie, tie on, tie up, to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up), transportschip (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier, mother ship), sjorren (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up), seizen (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up), kangoeroeschip (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier), barge carrier (barge carrier, barge-carrying ship, barge-carrying vessel, LASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lighter aboard ship, lighter carrier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مژگان (Eyelash), تسمه (Bail, Belt, Halter, Hoop, Ribbon, Strop, Thong), تازیانه (Rawhide, Scourge, Whip), ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hew, Hook, Impact, Pelt, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Tit, Whop), شلاق خوردن , شلاق (Horsewhip, Lambaste, Scourge, Whip, Whiplash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | läimäyttää (slap, smack), läimäys (crack, slap, smack), sivaltaa (deal a person a blow, slap, strike), sivallus (slap), siima (line), ruoskansiima (thong), ripsi (rep), raippa (rod, whip), piiskansiima, piestä (beat, flog, whip), köyttää (rope, secure, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fustiger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wimper (cilium, eyelash), peitsche (bullwhip, horsewhip, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βλεφαρίδα (cilium, eyelash, eyelid, winker), βούρδουλασ (rawhide), μάστιγα (scourge), μαστιγώ (flog, horsewhip, trounce, welt, whip), μαστίγιο (horsewhip, knout, quirt, switch, whip), λωρίο (thong), δέρνω (beat, beat up, beaten, churn, drub, ferule, flog, lambaste, lick, scourge, shellac, spank, trounce, whip, whop), δένω (bind, fasten, knot, leash, strap on, thicken, tie, tie up, to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize, to tie up, truss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלקות (flogging, lashing, whipping), מ'לב (knout, whip), ל"לקות (beat, belabour, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, scourge, tan, trounce, whip), ל"צליף (flail, flog, horsewhip, lashing, slash, swat, swish, switch, tan, whip), לרצע (flog, whip), פר'ול (knout, scourge, shoot, whip), עפעף (eyelid, lashing), "צלפ" (flagellation, flick, lashing, slash, stroke, whipping), רצוע" (band, belt, knout, ligament, list, ribbon, strap, streak, swivel, tape), צליפ" (lashing, sniping, whipping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ostorcsapás (clip, swish), szempilla (cilia, eyelash, eyelashes), ostor (scourge, whip), megkorbácsolás (flogging, trouncing), korbács (cat, scourge, sjambok, thong, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendera (thrash, welt, whack), mencemiti (whip), dera, caman (exhortation, stroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | legare (alloy, bind, connect, get on well, go well, hitch, join, ligate, link, tether, tie, tie up, unite, wire), sferzare (break, lash out at, scourge, whip), sferza (knout, whip), sarcasmo (derision, mordacity, sarcasm), nerbo (backbone, whip), incitare (abet, animate, egg, embolden, excite, goad, hound, impel, incite, prompt, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, sting, stir, stir up, tempt), giuoco (game, play, slack), frustata (lashing), frustare (flail, flog, frustrate, hide, horsewhip, scourge, slash, switch, thwart, whip, whip up, whips), frusta (bullwhip, egg beater, egg whip, egg whisk, horsewhip, mixing arm, paddel arm, stirrer, switch, whip, whisk, wing), frangersi su, ciglio (balk, boundary strip, brink, crest, curb, curbstone, edge, edging, eyelash, eyelashes, kerb, top), battere violentemente (batter), agitare (agitate, become upset, convulse, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, Frisk, get excited, rattle, ruffle, shake, shake up, stir, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, laptop, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ラッシュ (rush, rush hour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yeealley (beat, strap, whip), yeeal (lace, lead, leash, thong), slashey, slashal (splice, whip), scuitchey (flagellate, flagellation, scourge, switch, whisk), scuitchal (flagellate, scourge, scutch, slash, slashing, switch, whip, whip a person, whisk), scuitch (number, switch, whisk, whisk of tail), scelpaghey (lacerate, rend), scelp (rent), custhey (beat, birch, flog), cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hammer, hit, pass over; article to trade, scold, thrash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | snert, piskeslag, piske (flog, flogging), øyenvipp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ashlay surrar (bash, clapperclaw, drub, wallop), surra (clubbing, dressing, drub, drudge, flood, lack, whipping), sarcasmo (acidness, acridity, gibe, gird, irony, jibe, sarcasm, satire, sneer, taunt), pestana (cilium, eyelash, eyelashes, nut), insulto (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, injury, insult, scurrility, taunt, vituperation), impressora a laser, flagelar (flagellation, mortify), chicotear (cowhide, horsewhip, quirt, swish, whip), chicote (cat-o'-nine-tails, horsewhip, quirt, scourge, whip), chicotada (flick, horsy, lashing), cílio (eyelash), açoite (quirt, scourge, tawse, whip), açoitar (flapdoodle, flog, horsewoman, leather boots, quirt, swinge, swish, thrash, trounce, whip). (various references) loviturã de bici, lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), izbi (bash, clash, hit, jar, seize, smash, smite, strike, thrust), a-şi râde de (jape, jolly, kid, make sport of, mock, scoff, smile at), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, 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), bici (cart whip, horsewhip, rawhide, scourge, whip), biciui (censure, flog, horse, horsewhip, lace, scourge, slash, slate, swinge, swish, switch, welt, whip), critica (animadvert, arraign, attack, carp, censure, condemn, criticize, defame, judge, pick, pick holes in, preach down, pull to pieces, slate), criticã asprã (a slashing criticism, deprecation, fustigation, knock), dojanã (admonishment, lecture, lesson, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, set down, snub, taunt, twit), a-şi bate joc de (ballyrag, deride, have a fling at, hold in derision, make fun of, mock, scamp, sneer, sport, trifle), geanã (bar, eye lash, eyelash), stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), joc de fuse, mustrare (dressing, lecture, pi-jaw, prick, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, slur, snub, trim, trimming, wigging), nu cruţa, plesni cu biciul, sãgeatã (arrow, needle, Reed, shaft, sting), gârbaci (whip). (various references) ресница (eyelash). (various references) slais. (various references) vezati (associate, attach, band, bind, confine, connect, couple, knot, lace, link, moor, tie), udarac bičem (whang, whip), udarac (beat, blow, bogey, bunt, dig, hit, impact, jolt, lick, puff, punch, stroke, thwack, wallop, whack), oštra primedba (cutting remark), napasti nekoga (attack, gang up on, have one's fling), išibati (flog, lash up), bič (scourge, whip, whipcord). (various references) pestaña (eyelash, flag, flange, gaff, proud seam, spigot). (various references) snärt (flick, flip), rapp (black horse, blow, crack, crisp, quick, whip), piska (batter, beat, cane, curry, drive, drub, flagellate, flog, patter, scourge, slash, whip). (various references) แส้, เฆี่ยน (flog, thrash), ผูกเชือก (buckle up), สิ่งที่ทำให้เจ็บปว"เหมือนโ"นเฆี่ยน, การเฆี่ยน (lashing, thrash), การกระทบอย่างแรงของคลื่นหรือสายฝน, กระตุ้น (arouse, awake, awaken, egg on, energize, fuel, goad, goad into, goad on, make, move, push, quicken, spur), ตำหนิ (blemish, censure, fault, hold against), ขนตา (eyelash). (various references) kirpik (cilium, eyelash), kamçılamak (flagellate, flog, hop up, horsewhip, leather, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, tan, welt, whip, whip up), kamçı ucu (whiplash), kamçı darbesi (stripe), kırbaçlamak (colt, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, swish, thong, welt, whip), kırbaçlama (flagellation, flogging, lashing, whipping), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up), ip ile bağlamak (lash down), bardaktan boşanırcasına yağmak (beat down, bucket, come down in sheets, lash down, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain in torrents, teem), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), azarlama (blast, castigation, dressing down, rap, rating, rebuke, reprimand, ribbing, scolding, strafing, upbraiding, vituperation, wigging), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, 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), çarpma (beat, blip, brunt, bump, impact, jolt, multiplication, percussion, stroke). (various references) хльостати (lace, leash, slash, whip), канчук, бічувати, батіг (eel, scourge, thong, whip), підстьобувати, пороття (beating). (various references) sự xỉ vả (lashing), sự chỉ trích (animadversion, censure, damning, dispraise, lashing), sự đả kích, sự đánh (beating, milling), dây buộc ở đầu roi cái roi cái đánh, cái quất. (various references) llachio (slash), llach (slash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flagella, flagellabant, flagellabitis, flagellabitur, flagellabunt, flagellandum, flagellas, flagellat, flagellati, flagellatique, flagellato, flagellatum, flagellatus, flagellaverint, flagellavit, flagelli, flagellis, flagello, flagellum, verbera, verberans, verberari, verberas, verberati, verberaverunt, verberibus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | lacier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lash": lashed, lasher, lashers, lashes, lashing, lashings, lashins, lashkar, lashkars. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lash": antibacklash, backlash, backslash, backsplash, calash, clash, eyelash, flash, goulash, multiflash, pearlash, photoflash, plash, slash, splash, unlash, whiplash. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lash": backlashed, backlasher, backlashers, backlashes, backlashing, backslashes, backsplashes, calashes, clashed, clasher, clashers, clashes, clashing, eyelashes, flashback, flashbacks, flashboard, flashboards, flashbulb, flashbulbs, flashcard, flashcards, flashcube, flashcubes, flashed, flasher, flashers, flashes, flashgun, flashguns, flashier, flashiest, flashily, flashiness, flashinesses, flashing, flashings, flashlamp, flashlamps, flashlight, flashlights, flashover, flashovers, flashtube, flashtubes, flashy, goulashes, pearlashes, photoflashes, plashed, plasher, plashers, plashes, plashier, plashiest, plashing, plashy, slashed, slasher, slashers, slashes, slashing, slashingly, slashings, splashboard, splashboards, splashdown, splashdowns, splashed, splasher, splashers, splashes, splashier, splashiest, splashily, splashiness, splashinesses, splashing, splashy, unflashy, unlashed, unlashes, unlashing, whiplashes. (additional references) | |
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"Lash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alush, kasih, labh, Lach, Ladh, lagh, lahh, lahr, lahsa, laih, lakh, larsh, las, lasa, lasb, lasc, lashe, lasht, lasi, lasm, lasx, laz, leesh, Lescht, lish, ljas, Llach, Lleshi, losh, loshe, lsa, lusch, lysh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lash" (pronounced la"sh) |
| 3 | l a" sh | clash, flash, slash, splash. |
| 2 | -a" sh | abash, ash, bash, brash, cache, cash, crash, dash, gash, gnash, hash, mash, noncash, pash, precrash, rash, rehash, sash, smash, stash, thrash, trash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-s" | |
-1 letter: als, ash, has, las, sal, sha. | |
-2 letters: ah, al, as, ha, la, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-s" | |
+1 letter: blahs, clash, dahls, dhals, flash, hails, hales, halls, halms, halos, halts, harls, hauls, heals, hulas, hylas, lakhs, laths, leash, plash, selah, shale, shall, shalt, shaly, shaul, shawl, sheal, shoal, slash. | |
+2 letters: ablush, aholds, alephs, almahs, almehs, alohas, alphas, ashlar, ashler, calash, chalks, chelas, clachs, flashy, galahs, galosh, halers, halest, halids, hallos, halmas, haloes, halvas, halves, hamals, hansel, haoles, haslet, hassel, hassle, haulms, hazels, hollas, laches, lahars, laichs, laighs, lashed, lasher, lashes, lathes, lathis, latish, laughs, lavish, lehuas, lotahs, palish, phials, plashy, ralphs, rashly, selahs, shaled, shales, shaley, shalom, shauls, shawls, sheals, sheila, shelta, shoals, shoaly, slatch, splash, sulpha, tahsil, uhlans, unlash, whales, wheals. | |
+3 letters: abolish, alights, aliyahs, alphyls, altheas, apishly, archils, ashfall, ashlars, ashlers, ashless, asphalt, asshole, baldish, bashful, bashlyk, bharals, brashly, caliphs, carlish, chablis, chalahs, chalehs, chalets, challas, challis, chapels, chasmal, chimlas, chitals, chlamys, chollas, chorals, clashed, clasher, clashes, clayish, dahlias, daledhs, daleths, enhalos, exhales, eyelash, fellahs, flashed, flasher, flashes, fulhams, galoshe, gasohol, ghastly, goulash, hackles, haggles, hailers, halalas, halides, halites, halitus, hallahs, hallels, halloas, halloes, halloos, hallows, haloids, halters, halvahs, halvers, hamauls, hamlets, hammals, hamulus, handles, handsel, hansels, hantles, hapless, harlots, harshly, harslet, hartals, haslets, hassels, hassled, hassles, hastily, hatfuls, hatless, hatsful, haulers, healers, healths, heliast, heralds, herbals, hilloas, holards, holloas, hooplas, hulloas, hyalins, hymnals, inhales, inhauls, ischial, kaliphs, keblahs, khalifs, kiblahs, klatsch, ladyish, lamedhs, larches, largish, larkish, lashers, lashing, lashins, lashkar, latches, lathers, lazyish, leaches, leashed, leashes, lethals, lithias, loaches, loathes, lochans, loofahs, malthas, marshal, mollahs, moolahs, mullahs, nuchals, nullahs, palship, paschal, phallus, phaseal, phrasal, planish, plashed, plasher, plashes, sahiwal, salchow, saltish, satchel, schmalz, scholar, scholia, shackle, shadfly, shadily, shakily, shalier, shallop, shallot, shallow, shaloms, shamble, shapely, sharply, shaslik, shauled, shawled, sheilas, shellac, sheltas, shiplap, shmaltz, shoaled, shoaler, slashed, slasher, slashes, slather, slavish, spathal, spheral, splashy, stealth, sulphas, tahsils, tallish, thalers, thallus, thralls, thulias, unleash, wallahs, wealths, whalers, zillahs. | |
+4 letters: acalephs, acholias, aguishly, airholes, alcahest, alcohols, alehouse, alkahest, allheals, alphorns, alphosis, althaeas, althorns, anethols, anthills, armholes, ashfalls, ashlared, ashlered, ashplant, asphalts, asphodel, assholes, athletes, backlash, bashlyks, basophil, bathless, bechalks, behalves, blackish, blanches, blandish, blathers, bleaches, bleakish, boxhauls, bushland, calabash, calashes, calathos, calathus, caleches, caliches, calipash, camphols, cashable, cashless, chadless, chalazas, chalcids, chalices, challahs, challies, chalones, chancels, channels, chaplets, charleys, charlies, charnels, chastely, chasuble, chattels, chelates, chiasmal, chiliads, chiliasm, chiliast, chloasma, chlorals, cholates, choleras, chorales, chrismal, clachans, clannish, clashers, clashing, claughts, coalfish, coalshed, cochleas, dealfish, earlship, enhaloes, enthrals, eschalot, eschewal, ethanols, ethicals, fallfish, fishable, fishmeal, fishtail, flagship, flashers, flashgun, flashier, flashily, flashing, flatfish, flattish, flatwash, galoshed, galoshes, galumphs, garishly, gaslight, gasohols, gharials, ghastful, hacklers, hagglers, hairless, halachas, halakahs, halakhas, halakist, halalahs, halavahs, halberds, halberts, halcyons, haleness, halfness, halibuts, halidoms, halluces, hallways, halogens, halteres, haltless, halyards, hamulose, hamulous, handfuls, handlers, handless, handlist, handsels, handsful, hanseled, haplites, haploids, haplonts, haploses, haplosis, harelips, harmless, harslets, hassling, hasteful, hatchels, haulages, hauliers, haverels, haylages, haylofts, headless, headsail, healings, heatless, heeltaps, heliasts, helipads, hellcats, helmsman, hemiolas, hexaplas, hidalgos, hoarsely, hobnails, holdalls, holdfast, holidays, hollands, holydays, hospital, humerals, hyalines, hyalites, hyaloids, inhalers, inthrals, jadishly, khalifas, klatches, ladyfish, ladyship, langshan, languish, lashings, lashkars, latchets, lathiest, lathings, laughers, launches, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, lavishly, leachers, leashing, leathers, lehayims, loathers, manholes, marshall, marshals, mochilas, naphtols, narwhals, nathless, nilghais, nilghaus, nylghais, nylghaus, oafishly, omphalos, outhauls, pahlavis, palships, parflesh, paschals, pashalic, pashalik, pathless, pearlash, phallism, phallist, phylaxis, physical, planches, plashers, plashier, plashing, pleaches, pushball, qualmish, rakishly, rashlike, ratholes, ringhals, sahiwals, sailfish, salchows, saltbush, satchels, schmaltz, schmalzy, scholars, seashell, selfheal, shabbily, shackled, shackler, shackles, shadblow, shaggily, shakable, shaliest, shalloon, shallops, shallots, shallows, shamable, shambled, shambles, shameful, shapable, sharable, shashlik, shasliks, shauling, shavable, shawling, shealing, shedable, shellack, shellacs, sheqalim, shetland, shigella, shillala, shinleaf, shiplaps, shipload, shmaltzy, shoalest, shoalier, shoaling, shoelace, shogunal, shoptalk, showable, shrapnel, shrieval, siphonal, slapdash, slashers, slashing, slatches, slathers, smallish, splashed, splasher, splashes, stablish, stanchly, stealths, stealthy, subphyla, sulphate, talliths, tallyhos, tapholes, thalamus, thallous, thawless, thermals, thiazols, trachles, trashily, trehalas, unflashy, unlashed, unlashes, washable, washbowl, whalings, whiplash, whooplas, woolhats. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 73 68 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ... .... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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