dart
IPA: dˈɑrt
noun
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- 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.
- (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
- (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
- A sudden or fast movement.
- (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
- Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
- Disaster animal response team.
- Disaster area response team.
- Disaster response team.
- A river in Devon, England, which flows from Dartmoor to the English Channel at Dartmouth.
- A surname from Middle English.
- A town in Ontario, Canada
- (UK, naval slang) An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.
- Acronym of disaster assistance response team.
- Abbreviation of disaster assistance and rescue team.
- Abbreviation of Dublin Area Rapid Transit.
- Acronym of Dallas Area Rapid Transit.
- (genetics) Acronym of Diversity arrays technology (“a genetic marker technique”).
verb
- (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
- (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
- (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
- (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
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Examples of "dart" in Sentences
- Dart and Husky stumble across the stone.
- The mouse darts through the slot letterbox.
- Dart deservedly carries the title of Twice Born.
- The darts are stored on the edge of the inner drum.
- Raymond Dart was the initial founder of the species.
- The darts strike and lodge themselves in the suspect.
- Ameridarts is the maker of the Amerithon brand of dart flights.
- They watch the game, shoot pool, play darts and quaff a beer on weekends.
- The robot shoots a tranquilizer dart at Agent 5, almost incapacitating him.
- Construction of the prototype was subcontracted to Dart Aircraft of Dunstable.