Involve vs Dash - What's the difference?
involve | dash |
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
* (John Locke)
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
* (John Milton)
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
(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.
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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
As verbs the difference between involve and dash
is that involve is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine while dash is to run quickly or for a short distance.As a noun dash is
any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).As an interjection dash is
damn.involve
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.
Synonyms
* to imply * include * implicate * complicate * entangle * embarrass * overwhelmSee also
* involver * voluble * involuteReferences
* ----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.
