Dart

Quick meaning: Dart is a noun meaning A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.

Meaning

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.

More Meanings

1. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
2. (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
3. 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.
4. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
5. (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
6. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
7. A sudden or fast movement.

Example Sentences

Trucking′s my dart too.

Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.

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

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

Word Forms

• darts
• darting
• darted

Synonyms for dart

Depending on context, synonyms include flutter, dash, scud, scoot, shoot, flit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shoot, scud, fleet, flutter, flit, flash.

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