English Explanatory Dictionary

dart

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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 cigarette.
  6. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
  7. A plan or scheme.
  8. A sudden or fast movement.
  9. A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  10. A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
  11. 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.
noun
  1. Acronym of disaster assistance response team.
  2. Disaster animal response team.
  3. Disaster area response team.
  4. Abbreviation of disaster assistance and rescue team.
  5. Disaster response team.
name
  1. Acronym of Dublin Area Rapid Transit.
  2. Acronym of Dallas Area Rapid Transit.
name
  1. A river in Devon, England, which flows from Dartmoor to the English Channel at Dartmouth.
  2. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States, said to be named for a bird flying like a dart.
name
  1. A surname from Middle English.
noun
  1. An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.
name
  1. Acronym of Diversity arrays technology (“a genetic marker technique”).

Pronunciation

/dɑːt/ därt /dɑɹt/ en-us-dart.ogg [daɹt̚] [daɹɾ̥] EN-AU ck1 dart.ogg

Word forms

dart darts darting darted

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂ Proto-Germanic *darō Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz Proto-Germanic *darōþuz Frankish *darōþubor. Medieval Latin dardus Old French dartbor. Middle English dart English dart 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”).

Derived words

blowdart blue dart Cupid's dart dartball dartboard dartfish dart golf dart gun dartist dartitis dartlike darts dart sac dartsman dart snake dart tag dartwhite dingy dart egg and dart fairy dart grass-dart heart and dart javelin dart lawn dart love dart lung dart palm-dart poison dart frog poison dart plant rope dart sand dart sun-darts yard dart dart about darter dartle darty endart indart updart Dartmoor Dartmouth
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