What's the difference between cash and dash?

Cash


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  • (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
  • (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
  • (v. t.) To disband.
  • (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (3) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
  • (6) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
  • (7) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
  • (8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (9) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
  • (10) Juliette Touma, Unicef’s spokeswoman in Jordan, said: “The focus in the past week has been on the refugees in Europe, but it is important to make the link to Syria, where 70% to 80% [of them] have come from.” She said the UK has been one of its biggest donors, but the public can help by giving cash and becoming advocates, writing to their MPs and holding fundraising events.
  • (11) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (12) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
  • (13) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
  • (14) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
  • (15) Vimeo has been less successful in convincing its audience to part ways with actual cash.
  • (16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (17) The cash would have fed swiftly into demand, with negligible risk of inflation.
  • (18) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
  • (19) The insatiable growth of the NHS's demands for cash have never been more graphically illustrated than under the present government.
  • (20) He believed retail deposits, where cash is not being held for investments, were currently "broadly stable".

Dash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
  • (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
  • (v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
  • (v. t.) To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.
  • (v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
  • (v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
  • (v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.
  • (n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
  • (n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
  • (n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.
  • (n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.
  • (n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
  • (n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
  • (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.
  • (n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
  • (n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
  • (n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
  • (2) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
  • (3) Play Video 6:52 Prime minister Theresa May calls general election for 8 June – full video statement If May wins a large Commons majority, the lingering hope that Britain will change its mind will be dashed.
  • (4) The UK government's plan to push Europe to deeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions has been dashed by the EU's energy chief.
  • (5) These kind of occasions have been arranged to add a dash of colour to what has been, for England, a grey Euro 2016 qualifying process.
  • (6) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (7) Even then, there remains concern about how strictly changes will be enforced amid the dash to complete the unprecedented “nation building” programme given the fixed deadline of the 2022 World Cup.
  • (8) for boys with the CAHPER tests were: sit-ups .42, broad jump .69, shuttle run .50, arm hang .43, 50-yard dash .60, 300-yard run .65; for girls the r values were about half the values for the boys.
  • (9) There are so many coaches in this world who want to work but can’t and there are those dashing blades who, through their quality and prestige, could work but don’t want to, because life as a parasite fulfils them professionally and economically.
  • (10) He has broken four Guinness world records, most of them for speed–mad 100-metre dashes across dizzyingly high wires, and frequently appears on Chinese television.
  • (11) Leftist Israelis condemn him for masterminding that 1982 invasion and for dashing peace hopes as a minister in the 1990s.
  • (12) We desperately looked for medical help – dashing around Harley Street and goodness knows where.
  • (13) The warning, in a report by the energy regulator, Ofgem , could embolden the government to trigger an early "dash for gas" which critics fear would mean higher carbon pollution for decades to come.
  • (14) Yet her hopes may be dashed: although she is pregnant with her first child, she lives with her husband's 16-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, and family planning officials may consider the teenager her own.
  • (15) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
  • (16) As for the competition … England: Vauxhall Astra Familiar but unexciting, a bit middle-of-the road and somehow lacking the dash of its foreign competitors Belgium: Nissan Leaf Undoubtedly one to watch for in the future, but no one quite trusts it just yet.
  • (17) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
  • (18) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
  • (19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
  • (20) But I don’t think [Lords chief whip] Ben Stoneham is going to be very accommodating to anyone.” Brexit weekly briefing: article 50 moves closer but EU dashes divorce deal hopes Read more Labour has promised no “extended ping pong” as it does not want to frustrate the timetable for triggering article 50, but it has laid eight amendments on issues from EU nationals to quarterly reporting to parliament about the Brexit process.