(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.
Elan
Definition:
(b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(2) You've shown "elan, dedication, skill and customary energy" while "producing a terrific newspaper and keeping the staff motivated and happy".
(3) Joey Barton tweeted with customary elan, "Go on the birds", and for the next 20 minutes GB peppered the Brazilian goal.
(4) He loaned me a Pure Elan DX40, a low-end mains-powered table-top model.
(5) Susan Elan Jones resigned as shadow Wales office minister.
(6) Because SB 1062 is explicitly intended to counteract last year's ruling of Elane Photography in New Mexico , in which Elaine Huguenin, a photographer, turned down a request from a lesbian couple to document their commitment ceremony because same-sex unions were against her religion.
(7) His tone at that moment was serious but there was much more to revel in; Southampton won 12 of their final 18 Premier League games and here, eventually picking off a much-changed but willing Crystal Palace , was further evidence of the elan that might have yielded even greater reward had an awkward early winter spell not given them ground to make up.
(8) 1.29pm GMT Labour's Susan Elan Jones asks if the increased fines for breaches of the national minimum wage laws will be in place by 1 January.
(9) Stout became a non-executive director of another London-listed pharmaceutical company, Shire, and Ingram is chairman of the biotechnology firm Elan.
(10) To lose the way she did, with quiet elan and sustained skill under intense pressure, leaving every sweat-drop of effort on court during two and a quarter hours against possibly the best player in the history of the women’s game – such a British defeat – was a victory in itself.
(11) Last year, aged 85, with provocatively typical elan, he suggested that a neutron bomb might prove a useful resolution of the situation in Afghanistan.
(12) Cary Grant himself could not have pulled off that bacon butty with elan.
(13) To my ears, DAB sounds worse than FM, even on the Elan, but my wife either didn't notice or didn't care whether I'd secretly switched the setting to FM.
(14) Should City’s fears about Kompany be confirmed, such attacking elan may be required.
(15) Kelner also admitted that Alton had edited the paper "throughout one of the most difficult periods of its history and has done so with elan, dedication, skill and his customary energy".
(16) Kelner added: "Roger has edited the Independent throughout one of the most difficult periods in its history and has done so with elan, dedication, skill and his customary energy.
(17) At one of the earliest debates, Carly confronted Donald Trump, a man who in his characteristic understatement said of her, ‘look at that face’ and every one of us remembers the grace, the class, the elan with which Carly responded.
(18) For all the claims of his detractors that Stewart is the epitome of East Coast elitism, there is more self-deprecating New Jersey grit here than arrogant Manhattan elan.
(19) Her conduct after the attack, bringing together this concert and hosting it with such elan, further underscores her maturity.
(20) I’m obviously pleased the UMP can now close the scars of the previous [leadership] election.” Later he added: “It’s now up to him to give the UMP the elan it needs and for that he will have to unify.