Definition of Dart

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Definition of Dart

Dart

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.

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

A spear set as a prize in running.

A fish; the dace. See Dace.

To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

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Dart Quotations

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.
Dennis Miller

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
Orville Wright

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
Major Owens

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
Augustus Hare

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
Peter Straub

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

Dart Translations

dart in French is dard
dart in German is Satz, Pfeil
dart in Latin is jaculum, iaculum, telum, spiculum
dart in Spanish is dardo
dart in Swedish is pil, rusa

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