虚线

[ adj ]
having gaps or spaces
<adj.all>
sign on the dotted line

Dash \Dash\ (d[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dashed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Dashing}.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat,
strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.]
1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike
violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of
the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon.

2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to
crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. --Ps. ii. 9.

A brave vessel, . . .
Dashed all to pieces. --Shak.

To perplex and dash
Maturest counsels. --Milton.

3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to
depress. --South.

Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. --Pope.

4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix,
reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an
inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter;
to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to
dash paint upon a picture.

I take care to dash the character with such
particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured
applications. --Addison.

The very source and fount of day
Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson.

5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute
rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash
off a review or sermon.

6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with
out; as, to dash out a word.