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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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ride
English
Etymology
From Middle English riden, from Old English r?dan, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyd?-.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)
- (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
- 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923
- It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
- 2010, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2010
- The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
- 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923
- (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
- 1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]
- (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
- 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love
- where ships at anchor ride.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]
- 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love
- (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]
- (transitive) To traverse by riding.
- 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
- Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.
- 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
- (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]
- 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
- (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
- 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
- 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008
- In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
- 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008
- (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
- 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
- With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
- 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
- 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001
- She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
- 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001
- (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- The nobility […] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- 2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
- The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.
- 2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22)
- “You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]
- 2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
- (music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
Synonyms
- (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ride (plural rides)
- An instance of riding.
- (informal) A vehicle.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
- Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
- 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
- (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
- The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.
- 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- (informal) An act of sexual intercourse
- Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ri?ð?/, [??iðð?]
- Rhymes: -i?d?
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Faroese ryta, rita or Icelandic rita, from Old Norse rytr, derived from the verb rjóta (“to cry”), from the verb Proto-Germanic *reutan?.
Noun
ride c (singular definite riden, plural indefinite rider)
- black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse ríða, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, cognate with English ride, German reiten.
Verb
ride (past tense red, past participle redet, c reden, definite or plural redne)
- to ride (to sit on the back of an animal)
- (slang) to have intercourse with (sex position with one person sitting on top of another like on a horse)
Inflection
Derived terms
- ridetur
- ridning
French
Etymology
From rider.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?id/
- Rhymes: -id
Noun
ride f (plural rides)
- wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
- ripple
- ridge
Related terms
- ridé
- rider
Verb
ride
- first-person singular present indicative of rider
- third-person singular present indicative of rider
- first-person singular present subjunctive of rider
- third-person singular present subjunctive of rider
- second-person singular imperative of rider
Further reading
- “ride” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dire
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ide
Verb
ride
- third-person singular indicative present of ridere
Anagrams
- dire
Latin
Verb
r?d?
- second-person singular present active imperative of r?de?
Middle English
Verb
ride
- Alternative form of riden
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- ri
Etymology
From Old Norse ríða
Verb
ride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)
- to ride (e.g. a horse)
Derived terms
- ridedyr
- ridepisk
- ridning
References
- “ride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
ride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)
- Alternative form of rida
Derived terms
- ridedyr
- ridepisk
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian r?da, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reyd?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rid?/, /?ri?d?/
Verb
ride
- (intransitive) to ride
- (transitive, intransitive) to drive
Inflection
Further reading
- “ride (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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