dart

noun

1. 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.”

2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
3. (figuratively, sometimes)Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.

   “The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.”

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. (Australia, Canada, colloquial)A cigarette.

   “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.”

6. A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.

   “Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.”

7. (Australia, obsolete)A plan or scheme.

   “Trucking′s my dart too.”

8. A sudden or fast movement.

   “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.”

9. A fold that is stitched on a garment.

   “Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.”

10. A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
11. Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
12. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of disaster assistance response team.
13. Disaster animal response team.
14. Disaster area response team.
15. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of disaster assistance and rescue team.
16. Disaster response team.
17. (UK, slang)An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.

verb

1. (transitive)To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
2. (transitive)To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.

   “As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me.”

   “Pan came, and ask'd, what magic caus'd my ſmart, / Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?”

   “Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.”

3. (transitive)To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.

   “They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help”

4. (intransitive)To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.

   “The flying man darted eastward.”

5. (intransitive)To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

   “The deer darted from the thicket.”

   “The fish darted under a stone.”

   “By half-time, it was almost a surprise that the away side had restricted themselves to only one more goal. Messi, again, was prominently involved, darting past Fernando and then Zabaleta.”

   “The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.”

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Dublin Area Rapid Transit.
2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Dallas Area Rapid Transit.
3. A river in Devon, England, which flows from Dartmoor to the English Channel at Dartmouth.
4. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States, said to be named for a bird flying like a dart.
5. A surname from Middle English.
6. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Diversity arrays technology (“a genetic marker technique”).