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dash(2) (iou) and apical ectodermal ridge (medicine)


dash(2) (iou)



dash noun1. LME.
[from DASH verb1.]
A violent blow, stroke, impact, or collision. LME.
fig.: Shakespeare 1 Henry VI She takes upon her bravely at first dash.
A stroke or line (usu. short and straight) made with or as with a pen etc., esp. (a) drawn through Writing for erasure, (b) forming part of a character or used as a flourish, (c) marking a parenthetic clause, break in sense, omission, substitution, etc., or separating distinct portions of matter. M16.
swung dash.
b. Music. A short vertical mark (') placed above or beneath a note to indicate that it is to be performed staccato, esp. more so than when marked with a dot (see DOT noun1 4b). M19.
c. The longer of the two signals (the Other being the dot) which in various combinations make up the letters of the Morse alphabet. M19.
A hasty stroke of the pen. L16.
A sudden blow; affliction; discouragement. L16-M18.
A splash, splashing; the sound of water striking or being struck. L16.
W. Cowper Music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore.
A small quantity (of something) mingled with something else; a slight admixture or infusion; a tinge. L16.
E. Blunden He went off, leaving a dash of bitterness in my mild draught of content.
A small portion (of colour etc.) thrown on a surface; a splash of colour; something laid roughly on a surface. E18.
pebble-dash: see PEBBLE noun.
J. T. Bent Syra is almost entirely a white town, relieved now and again by a dash of yellow wash.
A showy appearance; showy behaviour. Chiefly in cut a dash below. E18.
(Capacity for) vigorous and spirited action. L18.
Wellington The affair..was occasioned..by the imprudence of the officer, and the dash and eagerness of the men.
The dasher of a churn. L18.
A sudden impetuous movement; a rush; a sudden vigorous attack. E19.
G. Stein She made a rapid dash out of the door.
A race run in one heat; a sprint. Chiefly N. Amer. M19.
= DASHBOARD 1. M19.
Phrases: cut a dash make a brilliant show. do one's dash Austral. colloq. become played out. have a dash at colloq. make an attempt at. make a dash for try to reach by quickness, rush towards.
Comb.: dashlight a light on the dashboard of a motor vehicle.

apical ectodermal ridge (medicine)


apical ectodermal ridge


The layer of surface ectodermal cells at the apex of the embryonic limb bud; considered to exert an inductive influence on the condensation of underlying mesenchyme.