dart

Meaning

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. (colloquial) A cigarette.
6. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
7. (obsolete) 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.

Synonyms

arrow

dash

💨

javelin

spear

rush

flit

shaft

bolt

shoot

scoot

run

fly

✈️

hurtle

sprint

lance

scud

flash

scurry

speed

sling

hurry

hurl

slip

tear

pike

zoom

race

skitter

flirt

😘

darts

cast

throw

harpoon

move quickly

fling

burst

fleet

bound

barbed missile

charge

scramble

leap

jump

scuttle

spike

flutter

whisk

sting

stinger

storm

surge

tear along

tuck

whoosh

wound

zip

harpoon gun

rush violently

shoot off

gavelock

moonfish

Asian pompano

buck-nosed trevally

golden permit

goldfin permit

cannonball along

ladyfish

thrust ahead

round pompano

long dorsal fin pompano

ovate pompano

pompio

abort

tropical permit

arrowhead

asparagus fern

barge

blowgun

blowpipe

bounce

break

bring down

career

catapult

dagger

🗡️

discharge

dive

dodge

drop

enter

fold

gallop

gore

hasten

hook

🪝

hurdle

lancet

lunge

missile

onrush

ovipositor

perforator

permit

pitch

plan

plunge

pricker

reverberate

ricochet

run along

scamper

shuttle

skedaddle

skive

skyrocket

slat

spurt

squirt

stab

start

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɑːt/

Etymology

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”).