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/dɑːt/ · noun
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.
The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
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 someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
Trucking′s my dart too.
Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
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.
Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
Use dart when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dart means A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin..
Common synonyms include flutter, dash, scud, scoot.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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