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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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sail
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?l/, [se???]
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: sale
Etymology 1
From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English se?l, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *segl?. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Swedish segel.
Noun
sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)
- (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
- (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
- (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
- A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- The blade of a windmill.
- A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
- The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
- (fishing) A sailfish.
- (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
- Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:sail
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English si?lan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijan?. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.
Verb
sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)
- To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
- To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
- To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
- To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
- [flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"] A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.
- (intransitive) To move briskly.
Derived terms
- sail close to the wind
Translations
External links
- Sail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Alis, Isla, LIAs, LISA, Lias, Lisa, SiAl, ails, lais, lias, sial
Basque
Noun
sail
- area
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sail. Doublet of zeil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?l/
- Hyphenation: sail
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
sail n (plural sails)
- (nautical) The fin or sail of a submarine.
- Synonym: toren
Irish
Alternative forms
- sal
Etymology
From Old Irish sal, from Proto-Celtic *sal?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal?/
Noun
sail f (genitive singular saile)
- dirt, dross, impurity
- stain, defilement
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “sal” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 589.
- "sail" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “sail” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Volapük
Noun
sail (nominative plural sails)
- (nautical) sail
Declension
Derived terms
- sailan
- sailön
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin solea (“sole”).
Noun
sail f (plural seiliau, not mutable)
- base, basis, foundation
- Synonym: sylfaen
Derived terms
- seiliedig (“established; fundamental”)
References
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “sail”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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