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Dash (other)
A dash is a punctuation mark. Dash or DASH may also refer to: Brands and enterprises * Dash (boutique), a boutique clothing and accessory chain * Dash (detergent) * Amazon Dash, a consumer goods ordering service from Amazon.com * DoorDash, an online food ordering and delivery company which trades on the Nasdaq as DASH * Mrs. Dash, a brand name of seasoning marketed by B&G Foods Fictional characters * Dash Parr, in the film ''The Incredibles'' * Dash (Transformers), Dash (''Transformers''), in ''Transformers'' * Dash Baxter, in the cartoon ''Danny Phantom'' * Dash Boardman, in the film ''Cars'' * Dash Riprock, in the television series ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' * Rainbow Dash, in the ''My Little Pony'' television series * Dash, in the British television series ''Thomas & Friends'' * Dash, one of the PBS Kids mascots since 1999 Organizations * Democratic Movement for Change, an Israeli political party * Design and Architecture High School, Miami, Florida, US Military * Display A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dash
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the emdash , longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontalbar , whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes. History In the early 1600s, in Okes-printed plays of William Shakespeare, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject. The dashes are variously longer (as in King Lear reprinted 1619) or composed of hyphens (as in Othello printed 1622); moreover, the dashes are often, but not always, prefixed by a comma, colon, or semicolon. In 1733, in Jonathan Swift's ''On Poetry'', the terms ''break'' and ''dash'' are attested for and marks: Blot out, correct, insert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
