(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.
Hanging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hang
(a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
(a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
(a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
(n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
(n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
(n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(3) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
(4) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(5) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(6) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(7) His photographs are hanging all over my house today.
(8) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(9) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
(10) 68 min: Ronaldo gets booked for hanging out of Ginaluca Zambrotta.
(11) At the time of the most recent follow-up, the success rate was 64% in the hang-back group and 85% in the conventional group.
(12) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(13) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(14) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(15) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(16) Sixteen percent of the treatment sample were found to be abusive pattern drinkers; that is, persons who report not only drinking heavily but also spending a great deal of time hanging out on the street, getting high, and consuming many other additional drugs.
(17) Ellen White: It depends what group you hang around in.
(18) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(19) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
(20) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.