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 ...

is a punctuation mark. Dash or DASH may also refer to:

Brands and enterprises

Dash (boutique) Dash was a boutique clothing and accessory chain founded in 2006 by sisters Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, and Khloé Kardashian. The boutique had three locations; Los Angeles, New York City, and Miami. In December 2016, the New York City ...

, a boutique clothing and accessory chain * Dash (detergent) * Amazon Dash, a consumer goods ordering service from Amazon.com *

DoorDash DoorDash, Inc. is an American company operating online food ordering and food delivery. It trades under the symbol DASH. With a 56% market share, DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States. It also has a 60% market sha ...

, 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''), in ''Transformers'' *

Dash Baxter The animated television series ''Danny Phantom'' centers on young Danny Fenton and his coming-of-age story as a half-ghost superhero in the town of Amity Park. Over the course of the series, he betters both himself and his powers as he deals with ...

, in the cartoon ''Danny Phantom'' * Dash Boardman, in the film ''Cars'' * Dash Riprock, in the television series ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' *

Rainbow Dash Rainbow Dash is a fictional character who appears in the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's ''My Little Pony'' toyline and media franchise, beginning with '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' (2010–2019). She is a close friend of Twilight Spa ...

, in the ''My Little Pony'' television series * Dash, in the British television series ''

Thomas & Friends ''Thomas & Friends'' is a British children's television series which aired from 9 October 1984 to 20 January 2021. Based on ''The Railway Series'' books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher Awdry, Christopher, the series was developed for ...

'' * Dash, one of the

PBS Kids PBS Kids (stylized as PBS KIDS) is the branding used for nationally distributed children's programming carried by the U.S. public television network PBS. The brand encompasses a daytime block of children's programming carried daily by most PBS ...

mascots since 1999

Organizations

Democratic Movement for Change The Democratic Movement for Change (, ''Tnu'a Demokratit LeShinui''), commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Dash (), was a short-lived and initially highly successful centrist political party in Israel. Formed in 1976 by numerous well-known ...

, an Israeli political party *

Design and Architecture High School Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH) is a magnet secondary school in the heart of the Design District in Miami, Florida, United States. '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked DASH as the 15th best public high school in the nation i ...

, Miami, Florida, US

Military

* Display And Sight Helmet, a helmet for fighter pilots *

Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH The Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH (''Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter'') is a small drone helicopter built by Gyrodyne Company of America for use as a long-range anti-submarine weapon on ships that would otherwise be too small to operate a full-sized he ...

(Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), a military drone helicopter * USS ''Dash'' (AM-88), a United States Navy minesweeper launched 20 June 1942 * USS ''Dash'' (AM-428), a United States Navy minesweeper launched 20 September 1952

Science and technology

* Dash, an element in

Morse code Morse code is a telecommunications method which Character encoding, encodes Written language, text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code i ...

DASH diet The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is a diet to control hypertension promoted by the U.S.-based National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Depart ...

(Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), a diet promoted by the National Institutes of Health to prevent and control hypertension *

Dash Express The Dash Express was an Internet-enabled personal navigation device manufactured by Dash Navigation Dash Express transmitted information using a GPRS connection back to Dash Navigation in order to enhance traffic routing as well as use Wi-Fi for t ...

, a GPS device by Dash Navigation *

DASH7 DASH7 Alliance Protocol (D7A) is an open-source wireless sensor and actuator network protocol, which operates in the 433 MHz, 868 MHz and 915 MHz unlicensed ISM/SRD band. DASH7 provides multi-year battery life, range of up to 2&n ...

, a low power wireless sensor networking technology *

Digital Audio Stationary Head The Digital Audio Stationary Head or DASH standard is a reel-to-reel, digital audio tape format introduced by Sony in early 1982 for high-quality multitrack studio recording and mastering, as an alternative to analog recording methods. DASH ...

, a digital audio tape format * Dynamic allele-specific hybridization, a method of genetic analysis * Long dash skipper (''Polites mystic''), a butterfly

Computing

Dash (shell) Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh) is a lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s. Initially a clone of the System V.4 variant of the Bourne shell, it replaced the original Bourne shell in th ...

(Debian Almquist shell), a Linux shell *

Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard. Description In April 2007 the Desktop and Mobile Working Group (DMWG) of the DMTF started work on an implementation requirements ...

, a computing standard *

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), also known as MPEG-DASH, is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers. Similar to Appl ...

(DASH), (aka MPEG-DASH, DASH Audio, or DASH Video), a multimedia streaming standard *

Unity Dash Unity is a graphical shell originally developed by Canonical Ltd. for its Ubuntu operating system. It debuted in 2010 in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10 and was used until Ubuntu 17.10. Since 2017, its development was taken over by the ...

, a component of the Unity user interface for the Ubuntu operating system *

Sony Dash The Dash was a device manufactured by Sony that connected using Wi-Fi to the Internet. It had a touch screen which the user could use to browse information or listen to music. It was not a portable device since it did not have an internal batt ...

, an Internet device *

T-Mobile Dash The HTC Excalibur (HTC S620) is a smartphone model manufactured by High Tech Computer beginning in 2006. It is rebranded and sold as the O2 plc, O2 Xda Cosmo, the T-Mobile International AG, T-Mobile Dash, the HTC S621 for Rogers Wireless in Canad ...

, a smartphone * Dash, an analytical web app library by

Plotly Plotly is a technical computing company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, that develops online data analytics and data visualization, visualization tools. Plotly provides online graphing, analytics, and statistics tools for individuals and colla ...

Dash (cryptocurrency) Dash is an open source cryptocurrency. It is an altcoin that was forked from the Bitcoin protocol. It is also a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) run by a subset of its users. It was previously known as Xcoin and Darkcoin. History Th ...

, an open source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and decentralized autonomous organization

Sport

* Dash, a

sprint Sprint may refer to: Aerospace * Spring WS202 Sprint, a Canadian aircraft design *Sprint (missile), an anti-ballistic missile Automobiles *Alfa Romeo Sprint, automobile produced by Alfa Romeo between 1976 and 1989 *Chevrolet Sprint, a rebadged v ...

race *

Houston Dash The Houston Dash are an American professional soccer team based in Houston, Texas, that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The Dash began play in the 2014 season. The team plays its home games at Shell Energy Stadium. His ...

, a professional women's soccer team based in Houston, Texas

Transportation

Aircraft

* de Havilland Canada Dash series **

De Havilland Canada Dash 7 The de Havilland Canada DHC-7, popularly known as the Dash 7, is a turboprop-powered regional airliner with short take-off and landing (STOL) performance. Variants were built with 50–54 seats. It first flew in 1975 and remained in producti ...

, a Canadian turboprop aircraft **

De Havilland Canada Dash 8 The De Havilland Canada DHC-8, commonly known as the Dash 8, is a series of turboprop-powered regional airliners, introduced by de Havilland Canada (DHC) in 1984. DHC was bought by Boeing in 1986, then by Bombardier in 1992, then by Longv ...

, a Canadian turboprop aircraft *

Dash 80 The Boeing 367-80, also known as the Dash 80, is a retired American four-engined prototype jet aircraft by Boeing to demonstrate the advantages of jet propulsion for commercial aviation. It served as basis for the design of the KC-135 tanker a ...

, early jet aircraft *

DaSH PA The DaSH PAdead simple human powered airplaneis a project led by Alec Proudfoot to build and fly a human-powered aircraft. The project's first flight on December 5, 2015, at Half Moon Bay Airport, was piloted by Proudfoot during which the airc ...

, a human-powered airplane project

Locomotives

EMD Dash 2 The EMD Dash 2 is a line of diesel-electric locomotives introduced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) on January 1, 1972. Designations of these models were those of the former models with "-2" added (e.g., the SD40 was replaced b ...

, a line of diesel-electric locomotives by GE *

GE Dash 7 Series The Dash 7 Series is a line of diesel-electric locomotive, diesel-electric freight locomotives built by GE Transportation. It replaced the GE Universal Series locomotives, Universal Series in the mid-1970s, and was superseded by the GE Dash 8 Ser ...

, a 1970s line of locomotives by GE *

GE Dash 8 Series The Dash 8 Series is a line of diesel-electric locomotive, diesel-electric freight locomotives built by GE Transportation. It replaced the GE Dash 7 Series, Dash 7 Series in the mid-1980s, and was superseded by the GE Dash 9 Series, Dash 9 Series ...

, a 1980s line of locomotives by GE *

GE Dash 9 Series The Dash 9 Series is a line of diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation. It replaced the Dash 8 Series in the mid-1990s, and was superseded by the Evolution Series in the mid-2000s. Dash 9 series locomotives are some of the most common in ...

, a 1990s line of locomotives by GE

Motor vehicles

* Dash, a series of firefighting apparatus (trucks) produced by

Pierce Manufacturing Pierce Manufacturing is a U.S. subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation, based in Appleton, Wisconsin, that manufactures customized fire and rescue apparatus. History Pierce was founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce A ...

Dashboard A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel or IP, or fascia) is a control panel (engineering), control panel set within the central console of a vehicle, boat, or cockpit of an aircraft or spacecraft. Usually located directly ahead of the ...

or dash, an automobile component

Public transportation

DASH (bus) DASH is the main Public transport bus service, public transit bus operator in the Northern Virginia city of Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria. DASH provides bus service within the City of Alexandria, connecting to local and regional public tran ...

, a public transportation system in Alexandria, Virginia, US * DASH, a bus service operated by the

Los Angeles Department of Transportation The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, commonly referred to as LADOT, is a municipal agency that oversees transportation planning, design, construction, maintenance and operations within the city of Los Angeles. LADOT was created by city o ...

in California, US * DASH, a bus route operated by

The Rapid The Rapid is the public transit operator serving Grand Rapids, Michigan and its surrounding suburbs. The Rapid operates local service in urban areas in Kent County, and regional service to Ferris State University and Grand Valley State Univers ...

in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US * Downtown Area Shuttle, a shuttle bus service in downtown

Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 ce ...

, US

Roads

Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway The Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway (DASH) () E31 (or New North Klang Valley Expressway) is an expressway in Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. Estimated cost of the expressway is MYR 11.5 billion. Route background The zeroth kilometer ...

("DASH"), an expressway in Klang Valley, Malaysia

People

Surname

Dash (rapper) Darien Corey Dash, Jr. (born July 21, 1992), known professionally as Dash (stylized as Da$H), is an American rapper. Apart from his solo career, he was a member of Heir Global, alongside former friend and collaborator, Retch. Dash is also an aff ...

, American rapper (Darien Dash born 1992) *

Anil Dash Anil Dash (; born September 5, 1975) is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, Prince scholar and writer. He is the Head of Glitch and VP of Developer Experience at Fastly. Career In 1999, Dash launched his personal weblog, dashes.com ( ...

(born 1975), American writer *

Charlene Dash Charlene Dash is an African-American model. Dash is one of the models recognized by the 2011 Huffington Post Game Changer Awards. The awards honored African American models featured in the Versailles fashion show entitled The Battle of Versailles ...

, African-American model *

Damon Dash Damon Anthony Dash (born May 3, 1971) is an American entrepreneur and record executive. He co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke in 1994, and co-founded the fashion retailer Rocawear with the former in 1999. Early life ...

(born 1971), American music executive * George Dash (1871–1959), New Zealand politician *

Jack Dash Jack O'Brien Dash (23 February 1907 – 8 June 1989) was a British communist and trade union leader, famous for his role in London dock strikes. Born in Southwark to a family which was often in poverty, Dash grew up on Rockingham Street. Hi ...

(1906–1989), British trade union leader *

Julie Dash Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer. Dash received her Master of Fine Arts, MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmm ...

(born 1952), American filmmaker *

Julian Dash St. Julian Bennett Dash (April 9, 1916 – February 25, 1974) was an American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, probably better known for his work with Erskine Hawkins and Buck Clayton. Dash ...

(1916–1974), American saxophonist *

Leon Dash Leon Dash (born , in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is a journalism professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former reporter for the ''Washington Post'', he is the author of ''Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America' ...

(born 1944), American journalist *

Mike Dash Mike Dash is a Welsh writer, historian, and researcher. He has written books and articles about dramatic episodes in history. Biography Dash was born in London. He attended Peterhouse, Cambridge, a college particularly noted for teaching histo ...

(born 1963), British writer *

Paul Dash Paul Dash (born 1946) is a Barbados-born artist, educator and writer who in 1957 migrated to Britain,Paul O'Kane"Dash, Paul" in Alison Donnell, ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 93. where he was associated w ...

(born 1946), Barbados-born British artist *

Samuel Dash Samuel Joseph Dash (February 27, 1925 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held ...

(1925–2004), American lawyer *

Sarah Dash Sarah Dash (August 18, 1945 – September 20, 2021) was an American singer. She first appeared on the music scene as a member of Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles. Dash was later a member of Labelle, and worked as a singer, session musician, ...

(1945–2021), American singer *

Stacey Dash Stacey Lauretta Dash (born January 20, 1967) is an American actress. Dash played Dionne Marie Davenport in the 1995 feature film '' Clueless'' and its television series of the same name. She has also appeared in the films '' Moving'', ''Mo' Mon ...

(born 1966), American actress

Given name

Dash Shaw Dash Shaw (born April 6, 1983) is an American comic book writer/artist and animator. He is the author of the graphic novels ''Cosplayers'', ''Doctors'', ''New School'', and ''Bottomless Belly Button'', published by Fantagraphics. Additionally, Sha ...

(born 1983), American comic book writer

Nickname

Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( ; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade ('' The Ma ...

(1894–1961), American writer, screenwriter and political activist *

Dash Mihok Dashiell Raymond Mihok (; born May 24, 1974) is an American actor and director known as Brendan "Bunchy" Donovan in Showtime's ''Ray Donovan''. Early life Mihok was born in New York City, the son of theater actors Andrea Mihok (née Cloak) and ...

(born 1974), American actor *

Dash Snow Dashiell A. Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist based in New York City.Roberta Smith"Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27" ''The New York Times'', July 14, 2009. Snow's photographs included scenes of sex, drugs, viole ...

(1981–2009), American artist *

Fred Waite Frederick Tecumseh "Dash" Waite, occasionally spelled Fred WayteOtero, Miguel Antonio (1936). ''The Real Billy the Kid with new light on the Lincoln County War,'' Rufus Rockwell Wilson, New York, p.46 (September 23, 1853 – September 24, 18 ...

(1853–1895), American cowboy, member of Billy the Kid's gang and later Chickasaw Nation legislator and attorney general

Ring name

Dash Chisako , better known by her ring name , is a Japanese people, Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. She was trained by Meiko Satomura and has worked for her Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion since ...

, ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Chisako Jumonji (born 1988) *

Dash Wilder Daniel Marshall Wheeler (born May 17, 1987) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Cash Wheeler, where he is a former two-time AEW World Tag Team Champions with Dax Harwood together ...

, ring name of American professional wrestler Daniel Wheeler (born 1987)

Other uses

Dash (cooking) In recipes, quantities of ingredients may be specified by mass (commonly called weight), by volume, or by count. For most of history, most cookbooks did not specify quantities precisely, instead talking of "a nice leg of spring lamb", a "cupful" ...

, a unit of measurement used in cooking * Dash (collie), a dog owned by Caroline Harrison *

Dash (spaniel) Dash (1830–1840) was a King Charles Spaniel owned by Queen Victoria. Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford, called him "the Queen's closest childhood companion", and in the words of the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', he "was ...

, a dog owned by Queen Victoria * Dash (Hori7on song), 2023 * Dash (Nmixx song), 2024 * '' Dash!'', a Japanese manga comic * The Dash, an English post-punk band * Pebble dash, a surface used on outside walls * ''

Sonic Dash ''Sonic Dash'' is a 2013 endless runner mobile game developed by Hardlight and published by Japanese game studio Sega. It is Hardlight's second ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' game, the first being 2012's '' Sonic Jump''. The game was released in March ...

'', a 2013 video game *

Dash Berlin Dash Berlin is a Dutch electronic music group started in 2007 in The Hague by Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn. Dash Berlin were voted the seventh most popular DJs in the world according to ''DJ Mag'' in 2012; Kalberg and Molijn were record ...

, Dutch trance band * Dash, a mascot of

from 1999 to 2013