transcription, транскрипция: [ dæʃ ]
( dashes, dashing, dashed)
1.
If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
Suddenly she dashed down to the cellar...
VERB : V adv / prep
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Dash is also a noun.
...a 160-mile dash to hospital.
N-SING
2.
If you say that you have to dash , you mean that you are in a hurry and have to leave immediately. ( INFORMAL )
Oh, Tim! I’m sorry but I have to dash...
= rush
VERB : no cont , V
3.
A dash of something is a small quantity of it which you add when you are preparing food or mixing a drink.
Add a dash of balsamic vinegar.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
4.
A dash of a quality is a small amount of it that is found in something and often makes it more interesting or distinctive.
...a story with a dash of mystery thrown in.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
5.
If you dash something against a wall or other surface, you throw or push it violently, often so hard that it breaks. ( LITERARY )
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
VERB : V n against n , also V n prep
6.
If an event or person dashes someone’s hopes or expectations, it destroys them by making it impossible that the thing that is hoped for or expected will ever happen. ( JOURNALISM LITERARY )
The announcement dashed hopes of an early end to the crisis...
They had their championship hopes dashed by a 3-1 defeat.
VERB : V n , have n V-ed
7.
A dash is a straight, horizontal line used in writing, for example to separate two main clauses whose meanings are closely connected.
N-COUNT
8.
The dash of a car is its dashboard .
N-COUNT
9.
If you make a dash for a place, you run there very quickly, for example to escape from someone or something.
I made a dash for the front door but he got there before me...
PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n