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- noun Plural form of
dah .
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Examples
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Unfortunately, the Morse bled into my subconscious obsessive-compulsive disorder so badly that I was looking at every billboard and counting the number of "dahs" and "dits" in the words.
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Unfortunately, the Morse bled into my subconscious obsessive-compulsive disorder so badly that I was looking at every billboard and counting the number of "dahs" and "dits" in the words.
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* Great Indiana Jones reference when Ed & co. fly back out of DC (Crow "dahs" the main theme).
Satellite News 2008
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The weather reports they relayed to Havana by dits-dahs and dashes, came from an old a.m. radio tuned to a station in Miami.
CUBA: FIVE DAYS ON THE CHEAP, FREE CELL, FREE GUARD DOG, FREE GUARD 2010
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Vie vell march and sing and heil our ghreat corporations dahs ve love and ve vell verk harder and more hours so daht Herr Hendler is happy.
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Combating Global Warming Does Not Require ‘Economic Castration’ 2006
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While the Internet and cell phone offer convenience to our world that is constantly on the go, Morse code will always appeal to a few that enjoy a time out from this "hurry" to listen to an electrical song sung in a simple language of dits and dahs.
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In about an hour his software can take any book in the public domain and turn it into a string of digital dits and dahs; last weekend, he turned out a version of F. Scott F.tzgerald's - .....
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So they prefer to describe the language in dits and dahs, the sounds of the short and long tones.
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Curtis also suggests that blogs can be 'enhanced' by all sorts of fancy doo-dahs in the graphics line.
Richard Curtis: On the road to virtual Michael Allen 2005
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Burmans were bringing dahs and baskets even before I left, and I was told they had stripped his body almost to the bones by the afternoon.
Shooting an Elephant 2002
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