Dash vs Scuttle - What's the difference?
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(typography) Any of the following symbols: (''horizontal bar ).
A short run.
A small quantity of a liquid substance; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
Vigor.
A dashboard.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 31:
One of the two symbols of Morse code.
(Nigeria) A bribe or gratuity.
* 1992 , George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
* 2006 , Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)
* 2008 , Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)
(obsolete, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
* 1824 , "Kiddywinkle History, No. II", Blackwood's Magazine (15, May 1824)
* 1853 , (William Makepeace Thackery), (The Newcomes)'', Chapter VI, serialized in ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine , (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853)
*:Comment : Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
* 1884 , (Lord Robert Gower), My Reminiscences'', reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", ''The Christian Union , (29) 22, (May 29, 1884)
* 1939 , , (Uncle Fred in the Springtime)
To run quickly or for a short distance.
(informal) To leave or depart.
To destroy by striking (against).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
To throw violently.
* Francis Bacon
To sprinkle; to splatter.
* Thomson
(of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
* {{quote-news
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To dishearten; to sadden.
To complete hastily, usually with down'' or ''off .
To draw quickly; jot.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
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.
* Addison
* Tennyson
A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
(construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
A broad, shallow basket.
A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
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, chapter=7 (nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
* 2002 , Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy , Corinthian Books (2002), ISBN 9781929175314,
* 2003 , Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955 , Northwestern University Press (2003), ISBN 0810120399,
* 2007 , Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster , Naval Institute Press (2007), ISBN 9781591141013,
* 2009 , Nancy Toppino, Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West , Insiders' Guide (2009), ISBN 9780762748716,
(transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.
To move hastily, to scurry
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3
* 1913 ,
In intransitive terms the difference between dash and scuttle
is that dash is to run quickly or for a short distance while scuttle is to move hastily, to scurry.In transitive terms the difference between dash and scuttle
is that dash is to complete hastily, usually with down or off while scuttle is to deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.As an interjection dash
is damn.dash
English
Noun
(es)- sometimes dash'' is also used colloquially to refer to a ''hyphen'' or ''minus sign .
- Add a dash of vinegar
- Aren't we full of dash this morning?
- The dash clock said 2:38 when.
- The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash " to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
- Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law
- The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
p. 540
- I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
p. 118
- Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
p. 524
- Who the dash' is this person whom none of us know? and what the ' dash does he do here?
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- I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.
Hyponyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* punctuation markDerived terms
* dashing * dash off * em dash, en dashSee also
(punctuation)Verb
(es)- He dashed across the field.
- I have to dash now. See you soon.
- He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
- "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
- Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
- The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
- If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
- On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.
- Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
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- Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
- He dashed''' down his eggs'', ''she '''dashed off her homework
- "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
- to dash''' wine with water; to '''dash paint upon a picture
- I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.
- The very source and fount of day / Is dashed with wandering isles of night.
See also
* hyphen * minus signAnagrams
* * * ----scuttle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ( > (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
Verb
page 325:
- In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.
page 238:
- To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.
page 17:
- He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.
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- In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.
- The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
Etymology 3
See scuddle.Verb
- With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.
- there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
- Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.