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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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escape
English
Etymology
From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excapp?re, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/; (proscribed) /?k?ske?p/, /?k?ske?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
- Hyphenation: es?cape
Verb
escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
- They escaped the search of the enemy.
- c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:
- If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.
- 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
Usage notes
- In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- break loose
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
escape (plural escapes)
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- (computing) escape key
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
- I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.
- (obsolete) A sally.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
Translations
References
- escape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- escape at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Escape in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Peaces, espace, peaces
Asturian
Etymology
From escapar.
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
French
Adjective
escape (plural escapes)
- escape
Noun
escape f (plural escapes)
- (architecture) escape
Related terms
- échapper
- escapade
- escaper
Galician
Etymology
From escapar.
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
Verb
escape
- first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
Further reading
- “escape” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
From English escape.
Noun
escape m (invariable)
- (computing) The escape key
Portuguese
Etymology
From escapar.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -api
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
Verb
escape
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of escapar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of escapar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of escapar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of escapar
Further reading
- “escape” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From escapar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?kape/, [es?ka.pe]
Noun
escape m (plural escapes)
- escape
- leak
- Synonym: fuga
- exhaust pipe, tailpipe
- Synonym: tubo de escape
Derived terms
- a escape
- carácter de escape
- válvula de escape
- velocidad de escape
Related terms
- escapatoria
- escapada
Verb
escape
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of escapar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of escapar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of escapar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of escapar.
Further reading
- “escape” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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