|
WordNet-Online
Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Noun dash has 6 senses
- dash, elan, flair, panache, style - distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
--1 is a kind of elegance
- dash, sprint - a quick run
--2 is a kind of run, running
--2 has particulars: break
- dash - a footrace run at top speed; "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash"
--3 is a kind of track event
- hyphen, dash - a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
--4 is a kind of punctuation, punctuation mark
- dash, dah - the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
--5 is a kind of telegraphic signal, radiotelegraphic signal
--5 is a part of Morse, Morse code, international Morse code
- dash, bolt - the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"
--6 is a kind of haste, hurry, rush, rushing
Verb dash has 6 senses
- dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
--1 is one way to rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- smash, dash - break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate"
--2 is one way to break
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- crash, dash - hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
--3 is one way to hurl, hurtle, cast
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- dash - destroy or break; "dashed ambitions and hopes"
--4 is one way to thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
--5 is one way to intimidate, restrain
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- dash - add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white"
--6 is one way to mix, mix in
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
|