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dash
English
Etymology
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dw?s?an (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also adwesch, dush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
dash (plural dashes)
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ? (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ? (horizontal bar).
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Add a dash of vinegar.
- (figuratively, by extension) A slight admixture.
- There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
- Ostentatious vigor.
- Aren't we full of dash this morning?
- A dashboard.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:
- The dash clock said 2:38 when […] I turned off a dirt road […] .
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
- The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
- 2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)
- Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law […]
- 2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)
- The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
- 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
- (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
- Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
- Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
- 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524
- Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
Hypernyms
- punctuation mark
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:dash
Derived terms
- dashing
- (typography): em dash, en dash
- (dashboard): dashcam, dash cam
Translations
See also
Punctuation
Verb
dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- I have to dash now. See you soon.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 4
- Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
- If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
- (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
- The very source and fount of day / Is dash'd with wandering isles of night.
- (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
- to dash wine with water
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
- (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
- He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
- 2003, Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise (page 198)
- Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
Derived terms
- dash off
- gas and dash
Translations
Interjection
dash
- (euphemistic) Damn!
Translations
See also
- hyphen
- minus sign
Anagrams
- ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, shad
Albanian
Etymology
Disputed. Potentially from Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eusóm (compare English deer, Lithuanian da?sos (“upper air; heaven”)). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *dalša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-l- (compare Ossetian ?????? (dalis?, “young lamb”)).
Noun
dash m (indefinite plural desh, definite singular dashi, definite plural deshtë)
- ram (male sheep)
Derived terms
- Dash
- Dashnor
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English dash
Noun
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)
- a dash (small amount)
- short for dashbord.
References
- “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English dash
Noun
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)
- a dash (small amount)
- short for dashbord.
References
- “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Ojibwe
Alternative forms
- idash
- -sh
Adverb
dash
- and, and then, then
- but
Usage notes
dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated with but.
Derived terms
- aaniin dash (“why?”)
- mii dash (“and then”)
See also
- aanawi (“although, but”)
- apii (“then”)
- gaye (“as for, also”)
- miinawaa (“and again”)
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj
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charge
English
Etymology
From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Medieval Latin carric? (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t????d??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t????d??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Noun
charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An accusation.
- Synonym: count
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist. 261a.
- (physics and chemistry) An electric charge.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- 1848 April 24, John K. Kane, opinion, United States v. Hutchison, as reported in The Pennsylvania law Journal, June 1848 edition, as reprinted in, 1848,The Pennsylvania Law Journal volume 7, page 366 [2]:
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- An instruction.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
- (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)
- to assign a duty or responsibility to
- Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
- (transitive) to assign (a debit) to an account
- (transitive) to pay on account, as by using a credit card
- (transitive, intransitive) to require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.)
- (possibly archaic) to sell at a given price.
- (law) to formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- to impute or ascribe
- No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
- to call to account; to challenge
- (transitive) to place a burden or load on or in
- the charging of children's memories […] with rules
- 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica, entry on Moya:
- [A] huge torrent of boiling black mud, charged with blocks of rock and moving with enormous rapidity, rolled like an avalanche down the gorge.
- to ornament with or cause to bear
- (heraldry) to assume as a bearing
- (heraldry) to add to or represent on
- (transitive) to load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials
- Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
- (transitive) to cause to take on an electric charge
- (transitive) to add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) to gain energy
- (intransitive) to move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback
- (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
- (basketball) to commit a charging foul
- (cricket, of a batsman) to take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball
- (military, transitive and intransitive) to attack by moving forward quickly in a group
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) to lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- charge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- charge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Creagh
Dutch
Alternative forms
- chargie (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French charge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???r.??/
- Hyphenation: char?ge
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- A charge (fast ground attack).
Derived terms
- cavaleriecharge
Related terms
- chargeren
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sarsie
French
Etymology
From charger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a??/
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- load, burden
- cargo, freight
- responsibility, charge
- (law) charge
- (military) charge
- (in the plural) costs, expenses
Derived terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: charge
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of charger
- third-person singular present indicative of charger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of charger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of charger
- second-person singular imperative of charger
Related terms
- chargement
- charger
Further reading
- “charge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gâcher
Middle English
Verb
charge
- first-person singular present indicative of chargen
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French charge.
Noun
charge f (plural charges)
- cartoon (satire of public figures)
- Synonym: cartum
Further reading
- charge on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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