a dash► C2 a small amount of something, especially liquid food, that is added to something else: » "Cream with your coffee, Madam?" "Yes please - just a dash."» FIGURATIVE A scarf adds a dash of (= a small amount of) sophistication.See picture: a dash of milk
Thesaurus+: ↑Words meaning small pieces and amountsMain Entry: ↑dash
- ↑Stairs and lifts
- ↑Standard and routine
- ↑Stars and constellations
- ↑Starting again
- ↑Starting and beginning
- ↑Starting fires
- ↑Starting from a particular time
- ↑Starting, succeeding and failing in business
- ↑Statistics
- ↑Staying afloat, capsizing and sinking
- ↑Staying and remaining
- ↑Steady, regular and unchanged
- ↑Stealing
- ↑Stockings, tights and socks
- ↑Stop having or doing something
- ↑Stopping fighting
- ↑Stopping fires
- ↑Stormy weather
- ↑Straight, even and level
- ↑Straining and filtering devices
- ↑Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- ↑Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- ↑Strength of will and determination
- ↑Stressing and emphasizing
- ↑Stretching the body