English

Etymology
Image:Plastic-Dart.jpg|300px|right|A plastic dart.
Old French dart, of German origin; compare Old High German tart javelin, dart, Anglo Saxon dara, daro, Swedish dart dagger, Icelandic darrar dart

Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation|UK) IPA|/d��t/, SAMPA|/dA:t/
(General American|US) IPA|/d��t/, SAMPA|/dA@`t/
audio|en-us-dart.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��(r)t|-��(r)t

Noun
en-noun

1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

#:Quotations
#:*And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. - 2nd Samuel 18:14

1. Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.

#:Quotations
#:*The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. - Hannan More

1. A sudden or fast movement.
2. A fold that is stitched on a garment.
3. obsolete A spear set as a prize in running. - Geoffrey Chaucer
4. zoology A fish; the dace. See dace.
5. (in plural): A game of throwing darts at a target.

Translations
trans-top|a missile
French: dard m, trait m, flèche f
Lithuanian: smigis m
Portuguese: dardo m
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Spanish: dardo m
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trans-top|a game
French: fléchettes f p
Serbian: strelica, žalo
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trans-top|a fold
French: pli piqué m s
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Derived terms
Dart sac, (Zoölogy): a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

Transitive verb
rfc-trverb|Transitive verb
en-verb

1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

#:Quotations
#:*Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? - w:Alexander Pope|Alexander Pope

Intransitive verb
en-verb

1. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
2. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

References
R:1913

Swedish

Noun
dart c

1. a game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target
2. rare one of the small arrows in the game of darts

Synonyms
pilkastning (1)
pil (2)

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