dash

v. move with sudden speed, bolt; shatter; hurl, cast

n. bit, drop, pinch; punctuation mark indicating a break in a sentence; rush, onset; race, sprint; spirit, vigor

A dash is a punctuation mark. It is longer than a hyphen and is used differently.
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A dash is a punctuation mark. Dash may also refer to:The common name of the Democratic Movement for Change, an Israeli political partyA track and field event; see Sprint (race)Dash (The Incredibles), a character in the animated motion picture The IncrediblesDash Valley, a small valley in the English Lake DistrictPokémon Dash, the first Pokémon racing gamePani Poni Dash!, a Japanese television anime seriesT-Mobile Dash, a rebadged version of the HTC Excalibur Windows Mobile smartphone.A unit of measurement in Cooking weights and measures equal to 1/8 teaspoonDash and Dot, the boy and the girl appearing in the PBS Kids identsDash 80 is another name for jet aircraft Boeing 367-80Dash, series of GE locomotivesde Havilland Canada aircraft Dash 7 and Dash 8 DaSH, the codename given to a multi-system emulator by ector.
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Potemkin is an experimental open source HLE PlayStation Portable emulator that was released on May 6 2007. The original author, ector, did not want to continue work on the emulator, so he decided to release it along with the source code under the GNU GPL license. The emulator was planned to support multiple systems, such as GBA, GP32, NDS and GCN, but only the PSP emulation feature was implemented in the initial release.
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(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.)
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.)
A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.
  

(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 sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
  

(n.)
A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
  

(n.)
Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
  

(n.)
The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
  

(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.)
Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
  

(v. i.)
To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.
  

(v. t.)
To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
  

(v. t.)
To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
  

(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 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 throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
  

Noun
1. distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
(synonym) elan, flair, panache, style
(hypernym) elegance
2. a quick run
(synonym) sprint
(hypernym) run, running
(hyponym) break
(derivation) dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
3. a footrace run at top speed; "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash"
(hypernym) track event
4. 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
(synonym) hyphen
(hypernym) punctuation, punctuation mark
5. the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
(synonym) dah
(hypernym) telegraphic signal, radiotelegraphic signal
(part-holonym) Morse, Morse code, international Morse code
6. the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"
(synonym) bolt
(hypernym) haste, hurry, rush, rushing
(derivation) dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
Verb
1. run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
(synonym) dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
(hypernym) rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along
(hyponym) plunge
(verb-group) tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
(derivation) bolt
2. break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate"
(synonym) smash
(hypernym) break
(verb-group) smash
3. hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
(synonym) crash
(hypernym) hurl, hurtle, cast
4. destroy or break; "dashed ambitions and hopes"
(hypernym) thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
5. cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
(synonym) daunt, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
(hypernym) intimidate, restrain
6. add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white"
(hypernym) mix, mix in

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