The noun dash has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (1) dash, elan, flair, panache, style -- (distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer")
2. (1) dash, sprint -- (a quick run)
3. dash -- (a footrace run at top speed; "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash")
4. 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)
5. dash, dah -- (the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code)
6. dash, bolt -- (the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door")
Overview of verb dash
The verb dash has 6 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (7) dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot -- (run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard")
2. (2) smash, dash -- (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate")
3. (1) crash, dash -- (hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock")
4. dash -- (destroy or break; "dashed ambitions and hopes")
5. daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare -- (cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal")
6. dash -- (add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white")