Lash

  

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Lash

Definitions: Lash

Lash

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Lash

DomainDefinitions

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)

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

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Synonyms: Lash

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Lash

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Lash

English words defined with "lash": knoutLanier, lash out, lash together, Lashed, LashngRope's endTaws, thong, To lash out, trice, trice upWhala, whip, Whip-shaped, WhipstockYerk. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lash": BRIDGE OPERATOR, SLIP, bridge tenderLASH carrier, LASH ship, LASH vessel, lasher-onMonkir, MothOceanPletriding-cropSACHARUM OFFICINALE, Sea-Bee Vessels, slip tender, Stormswirehead. (references)
Etymologies containing "lash": BacklashOverlashVerberate. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lash

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Lash

DomainTitle

Books

  • Annie Lash (reference)

  • Fire Lash (The Executioner Series , No 210) (reference)

  • The Lash of Senorita Scorpion (Circle V Western) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • The Loom and the Lash (reference)

  • Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun: A Boy's Journey (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Lash

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Photo Album: Lash

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Lash

AuthorQuotation

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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Use in Literature: Lash

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The royalty of July reared, in spite of the lash, in the harness of the European cabinets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lash

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Lash

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)40.16%5147,619
Lexical Verb (infinitive)39.37%5048,117
Lexical Verb (base form)18.11%2372,767
Noun (proper)2.36%3202,518
                    Total100.00%127N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Lash

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LashLast name3,0003,969
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Lash

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lash

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Lash

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

ресница (eyelash). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

slais. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

pestaña (eyelash, flag, flange, gaff, proud seam, spigot). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Thai

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

хльостати (lace, leash, slash, whip), канчук, бічувати, батіг (eel, scourge, thong, whip), підстьобувати, пороття (beating). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

   

Welsh

  

llachio (slash), llach (slash). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lash

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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 French900-1400

lacier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lash

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Lash"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lash" (pronounced la"sh)
3l a" shclash, flash, slash, splash.
2-a" shabash, 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.

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Anagrams: Lash

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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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lash


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46678574

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INDEX

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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