dart
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
geometry
government
manufacturing
mathematics
military
politics
sciences
sewing
textiles
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂
Proto-Germanic *darō
Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz
Proto-Germanic *darōþuz
Frankish *darōþubor.
Medieval Latin dardus
Old French dartbor.
Middle English dart
English dart
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: darts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: darts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: darting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: darted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: darted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
sometimes
examples: The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A concave quadrilateral similar in shape to a chevron or arrowhead.
pos: noun
gloss: A cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
colloquial
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.
gloss: A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
pos: noun
examples: Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
gloss: A plan or scheme.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
obsolete
examples: Trucking′s my dart too.
gloss: A sudden or fast movement.
pos: noun
examples: Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
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.
gloss: A fold that is stitched on a garment.
pos: noun
examples: Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
gloss: A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
pos: noun
gloss: To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me.
Pan came, and ask'd, what magic caus'd my ſmart, / Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?
Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
gloss: To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help
gloss: To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The flying man darted eastward.
gloss: To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The deer darted from the thicket.
The fish darted under a stone.
By half-time, it was almost a surprise that the away side had restricted themselves to only one more goal. Messi, again, was prominently involved, darting past Fernando and then Zabaleta.
The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.
Derived words: blowdart
blue dart
Cupid's dart
dartball
dartboard
dartfish
dart golf
dart gun
dartist
dartitis
dartlike
darts
dart sac
dartsman
dart snake
dart tag
dartwhite
dingy dart
egg and dart
fairy dart
grass-dart
heart and dart
javelin dart
lawn dart
love dart
lung dart
palm-dart
poison dart frog
poison dart plant
rope dart
sand dart
sun-darts
yard dart
dart about
darter
dartle
darty
endart
indart
updart
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