dart

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[edit] Etymology

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”)

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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.
    • 2011 Septembe 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, BBC Sport:
      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.
  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.

[edit] Translations

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

[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

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 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, BBC:
      The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.

[edit] Translations

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

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[edit] Middle English

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dart

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

[edit] Old French

[edit] Etymology

Of Germanic origin.

[edit] Noun

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

  1. weapon similar to a javelin

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dart

  1. there

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[edit] 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)

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