Dart

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English

Noun

Dart (plural Darts)
  1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
    • And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. - 2nd Samuel 18:14
  2. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
    • The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. - Hannah More
  3. A sudden or fast movement.
  4. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  5. (zoology) A fish; the dace.
  6. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.

Verb

Dart (third-person singular simple present Darts, present participle Darting, simple past and past participle Darted)

  1. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
  2. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
    The sun darts forth his beams.
    Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? - Alexander Pope
  3. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
    The flying man darted eastward.
  4. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
    The deer darted from the thicket.
    • 2010 Mark Vesty Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal
    The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.

Adjectives for Dart

fiery; false; envenomed; swift; imperceptible; slender; sudden; goading; bullet-like; lightning; dribbling; sickening; spiritquelling; singing; flaming; shining.

Verbs for Dart

aim—; blunt—; blow—; brandish—; dash—; defend with—s; envenom—; feather—; flash—; interpose; remove—; poison—; polish—; shake—; shield from—; shoot—; spear—; tip—; thrust—through; —hisses by; —soars; —strikes; —whizzes by; — wounds.

Thesaurus

antelope, arrow, arrowhead, barb, beesting, blue darter, blue streak, bobtailed arrow, bolt, bowl, bustle, buzz about, cannonball, career, cast, catapult, chested arrow, chuck, chunk, cloth yard shaft, courser, dash, eagle, electricity, express train, fang, fire, flash, flight, fling, flip, float, flutter, fly, fork, fuss, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, haste, hasten, heave, hie, hump, hump it, hurl, hurry, hurry about, hurtle, jerk, jet plane, lance, launch, let fly, light, lightning, lob, make a fuss, make haste, mercury, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, post, precipitate, put, put the shot, quarrel, quicksilver, race, reed, rocket, run, rush, rush about, rush around, sail, scamper, scared rabbit, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, serve, shaft, shoot, shot, shy, skedaddle, skim, sling, snakebite, snap, speed, sprint, spurt, step on it, sting, stinger, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, swallow, tang, tear, tear around, thought, throw, thunderbolt, tilt, torrent, toss, volley, whiz about, wind

Etymology

File:Dart.svg
Parts: 1.Tip 2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.

Old French dart, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English dara, daro, Swedish dart dagger, Icelandic darrar (“dart”)

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

sharp-pointed missile weapon
figuratively: something that wounds like a dart
sudden or fast movement
stitched fold
zoology: fish — see dace
game

Derived terms

  • dart sac (Zoölogy): a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

Verb

to throw with a sudden effort
to throw suddenly or rapidly
to fly or pass swiftly
to start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along

References

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

Dart

  1. A spear set as a prize in running. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Old French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin.

Noun

Dart m. (oblique plural darz, nominative singular darz, nominative plural dart)

  1. weapon similar to a javelin

Descendants

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Dart

  1. there

Alternative forms

Swedish

Noun

Dart c.

  1. darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
  2. (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)

Synonyms

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