dart

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 References 2 Middle English 2.1 Noun 3 Swedish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Synonyms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old French dart, of German origin; compare Old High German tart (“‘javelin, dart’”), Anglo Saxon dara, daro, Swedish dart dagger, Icelandic darrar (“‘dart’”)

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /dɑːt/, SAMPA: /dA:t/
• (US) IPA: /dɑɚt/, SAMPA: /dA@`t/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t

[edit] 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. A fold that is stitched on a garment.
5. (zoology) A fish; the dace.
6. (in plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.

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[edit] Derived terms

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

[edit] Verb

to 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; as, 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
4. (intransitive) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

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[edit] References

• dart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] Middle English

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dart

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

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[edit] Swedish

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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)

[edit] Synonyms

• pilkastning (1)
• pil (2)