Dash (disambiguation) explained

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), 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 And Sight Helmet, a helmet for fighter pilots
• Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH (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
• DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), a diet promoted by the National Institutes of Health to prevent and control hypertension
• Dash Express, a GPS device by Dash Navigation
• DASH7, a low power wireless sensor networking technology
• Digital Audio Stationary Head, a digital audio tape format
• Dynamic allele-specific hybridization, a method of genetic analysis
• Long dash skipper (Polites mystic), a butterfly

Computing

• Dash (shell) (Debian Almquist shell), a Linux shell
• Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware, a computing standard
• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), (aka MPEG-DASH, DASH Audio, or DASH Video), a multimedia streaming standard
• Unity Dash, a component of the Unity user interface for the Ubuntu operating system
• Sony Dash, an Internet device
• T-Mobile Dash, a smartphone
• Dash, an analytical web app library by Plotly
• Dash (cryptocurrency), an open source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and decentralized autonomous organization

Sport

• Dash, a sprint race
• Houston Dash, a professional women's soccer team based in Houston, Texas

Transportation

Aircraft

• de Havilland Canada Dash series
  • De Havilland Canada Dash 7, a Canadian turboprop aircraft
  • De Havilland Canada Dash 8, a Canadian turboprop aircraft
• Dash 80, early jet aircraft
• DaSH PA, a human-powered airplane project

Locomotives

• EMD Dash 2, a line of diesel-electric locomotives by GE
• GE Dash 7 Series, a 1970s line of locomotives by GE
• GE Dash 8 Series, a 1980s line of locomotives by GE
• GE Dash 9 Series, a 1990s line of locomotives by GE

Motor vehicles

• Dash, a series of firefighting apparatus (trucks) produced by Pierce Manufacturing
• Dashboard or dash, an automobile component

Public transportation

• Damansara–Shah Alam Elevated Expressway ("DASH"), an expressway in Klang Valley, Malaysia
• DASH (bus), a public transportation system in Alexandria, Virginia, US
• Davidson Avenue Shuttle, bus service for Somerset County, New Jersey, US
• Downtown Area Short Hop, a public transportation system in Los Angeles, California, US
• Downtown Area Shuttle, bus service for Hartford, Connecticut, US
• The DASH, a route run by the Regional Transportation District in Boulder, Colorado, US

People

Surname

• Dash (rapper), American rapper (Darien Dash born 1992)
• Anil Dash (born 1975), American writer
• Charlene Dash, African-American model
• Damon Dash (born 1971), American music executive
• George Dash (1871–1959), New Zealand politician
• Jack Dash (1906–1989), British labor union leader
• Julie Dash (born 1952), American filmmaker
• Julian Dash (1916–1974), American saxophonist
• Leon Dash (born 1944), American journalist
• Mike Dash (born 1963), British writer
• Paul Dash (born 1946), Barbados-born British artist
• Samuel Dash (1925–2004), American lawyer
• Sarah Dash (1945–2021), American singer
• Stacey Dash (born 1966), American actress

Given name

• Dash Shaw (born 1983), American comic book writer

Nickname

• Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American writer, screenwriter and political activist
• Dash Mihok (born 1974), American actor
• Dash Snow (1981–2009), American artist
• Fred Waite (1853–1895), American cowboy, member of Billy the Kid's gang and later Chickasaw Nation legislator and attorney general

Ring name

• Dash Chisako, ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Chisako Jumonji (born 1988)
• Dash Wilder, ring name of American professional wrestler Daniel Wheeler (born 1987)

Other uses

• Dash (cooking), a unit of measurement used in cooking
• Dash (collie), a dog owned by Caroline Harrison
• Dash (spaniel), 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, a 2013 video game
• Dash Berlin, Dutch trance band
• Dash, a mascot of PBS Kids from 1999 to 2013

See also

• D-A-CH, three territorial entities where German is an official language
• Daesh, a Salafi jihadist former unrecognised proto-state and militant group (aka ISIS and ISIL)
• DASHED, a food delivery service
• Dashiell, a given name and a surname