DART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dart mean? 

• DART (noun)
  The noun DART has 3 senses:

1. a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot

2. a tapered tuck made in dressmaking

3. a sudden quick movement

  Familiarity information: DART used as a noun is uncommon.

• DART (verb)
  The verb DART has 3 senses:

1. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

2. run or move very quickly or hastily

3. move with sudden speed

  Familiarity information: DART used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dart" is a kind of...):

missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dart"):

banderilla (a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tapered tuck made in dressmaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dart" is a kind of...):

tuck (a narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place)

Holonyms ("dart" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sudden quick movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dart; flit

Hypernyms ("dart" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Derivation:

dart (move with sudden speed)

dart (move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart)

dart (run or move very quickly or hastily)

• DART (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dart    ... he / she / it darts   
Past simple: darted   
Past participle: darted   
-ing form: darting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dart; fleet; flit; flutter

Context example:

The hummingbird flitted among the branches

Hypernyms (to "dart" is one way to...):

hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip (move very fast)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dart"):

butterfly (flutter like a butterfly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

dart (a sudden quick movement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Run or move very quickly or hastily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dart; dash; flash; scoot; scud; shoot

Context example:

She dashed into the yard

Hypernyms (to "dart" is one way to...):

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)

Verb group:

buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear (move quickly and violently)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dart"):

plunge (dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

dart (a sudden quick movement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move with sudden speed

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

His forefinger darted in all directions as he spoke

Hypernyms (to "dart" is one way to...):

hurl; hurtle; lunge; thrust (make a thrusting forward movement)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

dart (a sudden quick movement)

darter (a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly)

 Context examples 

Suddenly he darted away into the fog.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uriah, more blue than white at these words, made a dart at the letter, as if to tear it in pieces.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Watching his chance, he darted away, and the chase was resumed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He darted in low and closed with his fangs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Flo, darting to my window—"How sweet! We must go there sometime, won't we Papa?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning across the room he flung open the door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I darted towards the spot from which the sound proceeded, but the devil eluded my grasp.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His eyes were open, and he watched the ghostly, phosphorescent trails of the darting bonita.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“We can enter in a minute,” he gasped, darting out again.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)