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dart¹
- /dɑːt/ UK
- /dɑɹt/ US
- [daɹt̚]
- [daɹɾ̥]
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
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, spear”).
noun darts
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin. 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.
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
- 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.
- A concave quadrilateral similar in shape to a chevron or arrowhead.
- A cigarette. 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someo
- A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters. Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
- A plan or scheme. Trucking′s my dart too.
- A sudden or fast movement. Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
- A fold that is stitched on a garment. Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
- A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
- Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
dart²
- /dɑːt/ UK
- /dɑɹt/ US
- [daɹt̚]
- [daɹɾ̥]
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).
verb darts · darting · darted
- To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot. As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me.
- To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart. They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help
- To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly. The flying man darted eastward.
- To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along. The deer darted from the thicket.
DART³
noun DARTs
- Acronym of disaster assistance response team
- Disaster animal response team.
- Disaster area response team.
- Abbreviation of disaster assistance and rescue team
- Disaster response team.
proper noun
- Acronym of Dublin Area Rapid Transit
- Acronym of Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Dart⁴
Where it comes from
From Proto-Brythonic *dar (“oak”). Cognate to the Darent.
proper noun
- A river in Devon, England, which flows from Dartmoor to the English Channel at Dartmouth.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States, said to be named for a bird flying like a dart.
Dart⁵
Where it comes from
Metonymic occupational surname for a maker of darts, from Middle English dart.
proper noun Darts
- A surname from Middle English.
Dart⁶
noun Darts
- An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.
DArT⁷
proper noun
- Acronym of Diversity arrays technology (“a genetic marker technique”).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: shoot, scud, fleet, flutter, flit, flash, dash, scoot, arrow, darter, bolt, thrower, throwing, stinger, fighter, hunter
Translations
Every language
noun sharp-pointed missile weapon
| Español | dardo, jáculo, venablo, azagaya |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 다트 dateu, 투창 tuchang |
| Português | dardo |
| Français | dard, trait, flèche |
| Italiano | dardo |
| Русский | дро́тик drótik |
| العربية | خزاقة xizāqa |
Talk about this word "dart." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dart. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dart. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dart "dart." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dart.Cite this
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