dart

IPA: dˈɑrt

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”).

(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.

Examples of "dart" in Sentences

Getting hit with a nerf dart is like getting hit with a paper airplane.
When that station is reached, I again dart ahead to repeat the maneuver.
Alaric tells Damon that he only has one more vervain dart and they go back into the house.
If you live on the dart board that makes up Hurricane Alley, the odds are highly in your favor that a dart is going to hit the board.
A science teacher at Battery Creek High School resigned Friday, about two weeks after he was placed on paid leave for shooting a foam dart from a plastic Nerf gun at a student ....
The crocodile, named Chu Chu, severed Mr Chang's forearm at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung when the veterinarian tried to retrieve a tranquilliser dart from the reptile's hide.
Polly stood a moment more, as if awaiting some communication about the child; but as Miss Mehitable turned away, and appeared to be busying herself about the fire, Polly gave a sudden windy dart from the room, and closed the door with a bang that made the window-casings rattle.