English

Parts: 1.Tip 2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.

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.
   • 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,

     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.

2. Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
   • 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,

     The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

3. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
   • 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,

     Trucking′s my dart too.

4. A sudden or fast movement.
   • 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in 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.

5. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
   • 2013, The Economist, Nadia Popova

     Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.

6. A fish; the dace.
7. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.

Translations

Derived terms

• dart sac

Etymology 2

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

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.

   • 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London):

     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.

   • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

     The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.

Derived terms

• dartle

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• drat
• DTRA
• tard
• trad

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m ‎(plural darts, diminutive dartje n)

1. dart

Middle English

Noun

dart (plural darts)

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

Middle French

Etymology

Old French, see below

Noun

dart m (plural dars)

1. weapon similar to a javelin

Old French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin.

Noun

dart m ‎(oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)

1. weapon similar to a javelin

Descendants

• English: dart
• French: dard

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

• dort
• datt

Etymology

Compare German dort, da.

Adverb

dart

1. there

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz.

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)

Synonyms

• pilkastning (1)
• pil (2)