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dart

Pronunciation: /dɑːt/

The English word “dart” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
  2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
  3. Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  4. 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.
  5. A concave quadrilateral similar in shape to a chevron or arrowhead.
  6. A cigarette.
  7. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
  8. A plan or scheme.
  9. A sudden or fast movement.
  10. A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  11. A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
  12. Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.

verb

  1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
  2. To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
  3. To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
  4. To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
  5. To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

Etymology

From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”). Compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart,…

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