dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑːt/
enpr: därt
ipa: /dɑɹt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [daɹt̚]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [daɹɾ̥]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: darts
Etymology: From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).
Compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).
Senses: examples: text: Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
ref: 1769, Oxford Standard Text, “King James Bible”, in 2 Samuel, xviii, 14:
glosses: A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
glosses: Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
examples: text: The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
ref: 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility: The Works of Hannah More, volume 1, page 38:
glosses: Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
glosses: A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
examples: 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
glosses: A cigarette.
examples: text: Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
ref: 1988, Michigan Aviation, volumes 21-25, page 62:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
examples: text: Trucking′s my dart too.
ref: 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, published 1970, page 79:
glosses: A plan or scheme.
examples: text: Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
text: Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart, this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A sudden or fast movement.
examples: text: Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
ref: 2013, “Nadia Popova”, in The Economist:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A fold that is stitched on a garment.
glosses: A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
glosses: Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
Derived terms: word: blowdart
word: blue dart
taxonomic: Catananche caerulea
word: Cupid's dart
word: dartball
word: dartboard
word: dartfish
word: dart golf
word: dart gun
word: dartist
word: dartitis
word: dartlike
word: darts
word: dart sac
word: dartsman
word: dart snake
word: dart tag
word: dartwhite
taxonomic: Suniana lascivia
word: dingy dart
word: egg and dart
word: fairy dart
word: grass-dart
word: heart and dart
word: javelin dart
word: lawn dart
word: love dart
word: lung dart
taxonomic: Cephrenes spp.
word: palm-dart
word: poison dart frog
word: poison dart plant
word: rope dart
taxonomic: Agrotis ripae
word: sand dart
word: sun-darts
word: yard dart