different between kick vs dash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/, [k??k]
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English kiken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *k?-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German k?ken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

Verb

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

1. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.

   Did you kick your brother?

   • 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith, Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,

     I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.

   • 1905, Fielding H. Yost, Football for Player and Spectator, Chapter 6,

     A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.

   • 1919, Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift,

     Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
2. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.

   He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, Chapter 1: My Early Home

     Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.

   • 1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, The Bobbsey Twins, Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,

     "If you did that, I'd kick," answered Freddie, and began to kick real hard into the air.

3. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.

   Kick the ball into the goal.

   • 1905, Fielding H. Yost, Football for Player and Spectator, Chapter 7,

     Sometimes he can kick the ball forward along the ground until it is kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.

4. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
   • 1936 October, Robert E. Howard, The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts, published in Action Stories

     "He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."

   • 1976 February 3, Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists,

     They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
5. (intransitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.

   He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.

6. (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).

   I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.

7. To move or push suddenly and violently.

   He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.

   • 2011, Tom Andry, Bob Moore: No Hero

     The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.

8. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
   • 2003, Jennifer C. D. Groomes, The Falcon Project, page 174,

     Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.

   • 2006, Daniel D. Scherschel, Maple Grove, page 81,

     I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick"?

9. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
10. (intransitive, cycling) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.

    Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.

11. (intransitive) To show opposition or resistance.
12. (printing, historical) To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.

Descendants

• ? German: kicken
• ? Welsh: cicio

Translations

Noun

kick (plural kicks)

1. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.

   A kick to the knee.

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stable-Beer Dives,

     A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]

     Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.

2. The action of swinging a foot or leg.

   The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.

3. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.

   I finally saw the show. What a kick!

   I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.

4. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
5. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.

   The car had a nasty kick the whole way.

   The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.

6. (uncountable and countable) Piquancy.
   • 2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations, Fireside, ?ISBN, page 124 [2]:

     Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.

   • 2003, Sheree Bykofsky and Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails, Adams Media, ?ISBN, page 129 [3]:

     For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.

   • 2007 August 27, Anthony Lane, "Lone Sailors", The New Yorker, volume 83, Issues 22-28

     The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.

7. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
8. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
9. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.

   a long kick up the field.

10. A recoil of a gun.
11. (informal) Pocket.
12. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
13. (film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kick.

Descendants

• ? German: Kick
• ? Irish: cic

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Shortening of kick the bucket.

Verb

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

1. (intransitive) To die.

Etymology 3

Shortening of kick ass

Verb

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

1. (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.

   That band really kicks.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English kick.

Noun

kick m (plural kicks)

1. kick, thrill (something that excites or gives pleasure)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kick

1. first-person singular present indicative of kicken
2. imperative of kicken

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?k]
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

kick

1. singular imperative of kicken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of kicken

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