Meaning

5 senses
  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.

  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.

    move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

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

    The deer darted from the thicket.

    The fish darted under a stone.

Examples

68 sentences
  1. Tom beat me at darts.

    Том виграв у мене в дартс. — deniko

    ruТом выиграл у меня в дартс. — marafon

  2. Tom and Mary are playing darts.

    ruТом и Мэри играют в дартс. — marafon

    deTom und Maria spielen Pfeilewerfen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom is playing darts with Mary.

  4. How about a game of darts?

    ruСыграем в дартс? — Karok

  5. Tom doesn't want to play darts.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

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Forms

darts, darting, darted, darted
Base formdart · to dart
3rd person singulardarts
Present participledarting
Past simpledarted
Past participledarted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydart
he, she, itdarts

Past simpleLesson

all personsdarted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave darted
he, she, ithas darted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill dart

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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