different between dash vs fly

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)

1. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ? (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ? (horizontal bar).
   1. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
2. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
3. A short run, flight.

4. A rushing or violent onset.
5. Violent strike; a whack.

6. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

   Add a dash of vinegar.

7. (figuratively, by extension) A slight admixture.

   There is a dash of craziness in his personality.

8. Ostentatious vigor.

   Aren't we full of dash this morning?

9. 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 […] .

10. (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.

11. (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?

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)

1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
2. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.

   I have to dash now. See you soon.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (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.
6. (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.

   to dash wine with water

7. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

   Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
8. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.

   Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

9. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.

   He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework

10. (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.

Derived terms

• dash off
• gas and dash

Translations

Interjection

dash

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. a dash (small amount)
2. 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)

1. a dash (small amount)
2. short for dashbord.

References

• “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

• idash
• -sh

Adverb

dash

1. and, and then, then

2. 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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fl?, IPA^(key): /fla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English flye, flie, from Old English fl??e, fl?oge (“a fly”), from Proto-Germanic *fleug? (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”). Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.

Noun

fly (plural flies)

1. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
2. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
3. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
5. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
6. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
7. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     a trifling fly, none of your great familiars

8. (obsolete) A parasite.
9. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)
10. (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• fly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Muscidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English flien, from Old English fl?ogan, from Proto-Germanic *fleugan? (compare Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, “to fly”) (compare Lithuanian pla?kti ‘to swim’), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). More at flee and flow.

Verb

fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past flew, past participle flown)

1. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
   • 1909, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

     Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

2. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).

   • Sleep flies the wretch.

   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

     He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly, you fools!” he cried, and was gone.

3. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

   • The brave black flag I fly.

4. (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.

   He flew down the hill on his bicycle.

   It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly!

   • 1645, John Milton, On Time

     Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.

   • 1870, William Cullen Bryant (translator), The Iliad (originally by Homer)

     The dark waves murmured as the ship flew on.
5. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
6. (intransitive) To proceed with great success.

   His career is really flying at the moment.

   One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.

7. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.

8. (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
9. To hunt with a hawk.

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Synonyms

• (travel through air): soar, hover, wing, skim, glide, ascend, rise, float, aviate
• (flee): escape, flee, abscond; see also Thesaurus:flee
• (travel very fast): dart, flit; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
• (do an act suddenly): hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush

Antonyms

• (travel through air): walk
• (flee): remain, stay
• (travel very fast): see also Thesaurus:move slowly

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• fly agaric
• flight

Translations

Noun

fly (plural flys or flies)

1. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
2. An act of flying.

3. (baseball) A fly ball.
4. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society 2008, page 124:

     As we left the house in my fly, which had been waiting, Van Helsing said:— ‘Tonight I can sleep in peace [...].’

   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), page 54:

     And, driving back in the fly, Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least.

5. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
7. (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.

   Ha-ha! Your flies are undone!

   • February 2014 Y-Front Fly

     Y-Front is a registered trademark for a special front fly turned upside down to form a Y owned by Jockey® International. The first Y-Front® brief was created by Jockey® more than 70 years ago.

   • June 2014 The Hole In Men’s Underwear: Name And Purpose

     Briefs were given an opening in the front. The point of this opening (the ‘fly’) was to make it easier to pee with clothes on

8. The free edge of a flag.
9. The horizontal length of a flag.
10. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
11. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
12. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.

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13. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
14. Short for flywheel.
15. (historical) A light horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation.
    • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:

      Can I get a fly, or a carriage of any kind? Is it too late?

      I dismissed the fly a mile distant from the park, and getting my directions from the driver, proceeded by myself to the house.

    • 1861, Henry Mayhew and William Tuckniss, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopœdia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, Volume 3, p. 359:

      A glass coach, it may be as well to observe, is a carriage and pair hired by the day, and a fly a one-horse carriage hired in a similar manner.

16. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.

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17. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
18. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.

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19. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
20. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
21. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
22. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past and past participle flied)

1. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).

   Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.

Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.

Adjective

fly (comparative flier, superlative fliest)

1. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
2. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
3. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

Translations

Etymology 4

Related to German Flügel (“a wing”), Dutch vleugel (“a wing”), Swedish flygel (“a wing”).

Noun

fly (plural flies)

1. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.

References

• fly at OneLook Dictionary Search
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fly?]

Etymology 1

An abbreviation of flyvemaskine, after Norwegian fly and Swedish flyg.

Noun

fly n (singular definite flyet, plural indefinite fly)

1. airplane

Inflection

Synonyms

• flyvemaskine c
• flyver c

Etymology 2

From Old Norse flýja (“to flee”), from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?, cognate with English flee, German fliehen, Dutch vlieden.

Verb

fly (present flyr or flyer, past tense flyede, past participle flyet)

1. (archaic) to flee
2. (archaic) to shun

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German vl?(g)en (“to stack, sort out”), cognate with Dutch vlijen (“to place”), from Proto-Germanic *fl?han, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.

Verb

fly (present flyr or flyer, past tense flyede, past participle flyet)

1. (archaic) to hand, give

Inflection

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly?/

Etymology 1

Short form of flygemaskin

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya or flyene)

1. plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fljúga

Alternative forms

• flyge

Verb

fly (imperative fly, present tense flyr, simple past fløy, past participle flydd or fløyet)

1. to fly

Derived terms

• glidefly

References

• “fly” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Clipping of flygemaskin (“flying machine”).

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)

2. plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft

   Skunda deg, elles misser du flyet ditt!

   Hurry up, or you'll miss your plane!

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fljúga, from Proto-Germanic *fleugan?.

Alternative forms

• fljuga, fljuge, flyga, flyge

Verb

fly (present tense flyr or flyg, past tense flaug, supine floge, past participle flogen, present participle flygande, imperative fly or flyg)

2. (intransitive) to fly (to travel through air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface)
3. (transitive, ergative) to cause to fly: to transport via air or the like
4. (intransitive) to run, move fast
5. (intransitive, chiefly about farm animals) to be in heat, rutting

Derived terms

Related terms

• fløygje

Adjective

fly (masculine and feminine fly, neuter flytt, definite singular and plural flye, comparative flyare, indefinite superlative flyast, definite superlative flyaste)

1. very steep

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)

1. a very steep cliff

Etymology 3

From Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?.

Verb

fly (present tense flyr, past tense flydde, past participle flydd/flytt, passive infinitive flyast, present participle flyande, imperative fly)

2. (intransitive) to escape; flee; run away

   Synonym: flykte

4. (transitive) to escape from

Etymology 4

Clipping of flygande (“flying”), present participle of fly.

Adverb

fly

1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the word forbanna

   Han vart fly forbanna.

Etymology 5

Confer with flye n (“flying insect”) and English fly.

Noun

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

1. small (flying) insect
2. (fishing) bait

Etymology 6

Noun

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

1. specks

   Synonyms: rusk, grann

Etymology 7

Noun

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

1. mountain plateau

   Synonyms: vidde, fjellvidde

Etymology 8

Of uncertain origin, though may be related to flyta (“to float”).

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)

1. sump

Etymology 9

Related to, or possibly a doublet of flø, from Old Norse flór.

Adjective

fly (masculine and feminine fly, neuter flytt, definite singular and plural flye, comparative flyare, indefinite superlative flyast, definite superlative flyaste)

2. tepid

References

• “fly” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Ivar Aasen (1850) , “fly”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Anagrams

• fyl

Scots

Adjective

fly

1. (slang, chiefly Doric) sneaky

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fl?ia, fl?a, from Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?.

Pronunciation

Verb

fly (present flyr, preterite flydde, supine flytt, imperative fly)

1. to flee, to run away, to escape

2. to pass, to go by (of time)
   • 1964, Gunnel Vallquist, title of the new Swedish translation of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu

     På spaning efter den tid som flytt

     In Search of Lost Time

   • 1965, Sven-Ingvars, Börja om från början

     Varför ska man sörja tider som har flytt?

     Why should one feel sorry for times that have passed?

Conjugation

Related terms

• flykt
• flykting

Westrobothnian

Verb

fly

1. to send, to hand

   fly me s?ksa

   hand me the scissors