dart
noun
[ dɑːt ]
• a small pointed missile that can be thrown or fired.
• "the classroom was littered with paper darts"
• an act of running somewhere suddenly and rapidly.
• "the cat made a dart for the door"
Similar:
dash,
rush,
run,
bolt,
break,
charge,
race,
sprint,
bound,
spring,
leap,
jump,
lunge,
pounce,
dive,
swoop,
gallop,
scurry,
scamper,
stampede,
scramble,
start,
flight,
tear,
fly,
flash,
shoot,
scoot,
• a tapered tuck stitched in a garment in order to shape it.
• "stitch collarband on to neck edge and stitch darts"
dart
verb
• move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly.
• "she darted across the street"
• shoot (an animal) with a dart, typically in order to administer a drug.
• "he darted the leopard with a long-acting anaesthetic"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, accusative of darz, dars, from a West Germanic word meaning ‘spear, lance’.
