dash
dash / dash/ • v. 1. [intr.] run or travel somewhere in a great hurry. ∎ (often dash about/around) move about in a great hurry, esp. in the attempt to do several things in a short period of time: I dash about to straighten things up.2. [tr.] strike or fling (something) somewhere with great force, esp. so as to have a destructive effect; hurl: the ship was dashed upon the rocks. ∎ [intr.] strike forcefully against something: a gust of rain dashed against the bricks. ∎ [tr.] destroy or frustrate (a person's hopes or expectations). ∎ [tr.] cause (someone) to lose confidence; dispirit: I won't tell Stuart—I think he'd be dashed.• n. 1. [in sing.] an act of running somewhere suddenly and hastily: she made a dash for the door. ∎ a journey or period of time characterized by urgency or eager haste: a dash to the airport. ∎ a short fast race; a sprint: the 100-yard dash.2. a small quantity of a substance, esp. a liquid, added to something else: whiskey with a dash of soda. ∎ fig. a small amount of a particular quality adding piquancy or distinctiveness to something else: a dash of sophistication.3. a horizontal stroke in writing or printing to mark a pause or break in sense, or to represent omitted letters or words. ∎ the longer signal of the two used in Morse code. Compare with dot1 . ∎ Mus. a short vertical mark placed above or beneath a note to indicate that it is to be performed in a very staccato manner.4. impetuous or flamboyant vigor and confidence; panache.5. short for dashboard.PHRASAL VERBS: dash something off write something hurriedly and without much premeditation.
DASH
—Me, pa.
—Who are you? Charlie?
—No, pa. Tom.
(Dubliners, 1914)
See ANACOLUTHON, PARENTHESIS.
Dash
DASH
Israeli political party, centrist in tendency, which surfaced at the time of the 1977 Knesset elections through the initiative of Professor Yigael Yadin. Dash ran its campaign advocating change, and the party won fifteen seats. In June 1977, after much debate, delay, and a very close vote, the leadership of the party threw its support to the right-wing coalition government of Menachem Begin. In November 1978, a split in this bloc led to a majority of its members rallying to Likud. The rest, under the leadership of Meir Amit, participated in constituting a new party, Shinui.
SEE ALSO Begin, Menachem;Likud;Shinui Party.
dash
Hence dash sb. act of dashing XIV; stroke made with a pen, etc. XVI.
Dash
Dash
a small quantity thrown in or mingled with a larger mass or amount.
Examples: dash of good blood in their veins, 1712; of brandy, 1697; of commuters—Lipton, 1970; of eccentricity, 1820; of evil, 1678; of my former life, 1611; of light, 1713; of the ocean, 1784; of rain, 1700; of water, 1677.