| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Like a dart; rapidly.[Websters]
2. In a dashing manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a barbed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a projected or scheming manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a tongued manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a bouncing manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a branching or armed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a vaulted manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a flighted manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective darting.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Darting) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb dart.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dart) | 1. Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.[Wordnet]. 2. Run or move very quickly or hastily.[Wordnet]. 3. Move with sudden speed; "His forefinger darted in all directions as he spoke".[Wordnet]. 4. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.[Websters]. 5. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.[Websters]. 6. To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.[Websters]. 7. To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: darting, darted, darts, darter, darters, dartingly and dartedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"DARTINGLY" is a common misspelling or typo for: dartlingly. |
Date "DARTINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dart
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A pointed missile weapon to be thrown by the hand; a short lance.. | 2: [Noun] Any missile weapon; that which pierces and wounds. And from about her shot darts of desire.. | 3: [Verb] To throw a pointed instrument with a sudden thrust; as, to dart a javelin.. | 4: [Verb] To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send; to emit; to shoot; applied to small objects, which pass with velocity; as, the sun darts his beams on the earth. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart. Pope.. | 5: [Verb] To fly or shoot, as a dart; to fly rapidly.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | Data Acquisition Request Tool. (references) | ||
| Antiquities | Dart. See Hasta; Iaculum; Pilum; Telum; Tragula. (references) | ||
| Bible | Dart an instrument of war; a light spear. "Fiery darts" (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. Arrows are compared to lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 120:4). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Environment | Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis project. (references) | ||
| Geography | Dart is geographically located in Morocco. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 31.58 degrees North latitude and 7.56 degrees West longitude. (references) | ||
| Information Technology | Dynamic analysis replenishing tool. (references) | ||
| Literature | Dart (See Abaris .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | 1: 1) Disaster assistance response team. 2) Downed aircraft recovery team. 3) Dynamic analysis and replanning tool. (references) | 2: Dallas Area Rapid Transit. (references) | |
| Mining | A device, similar to a pumpdown ball, used to manipulate hydraulically operated downhole tools. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | DART. A straight-armed blow in boxing. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Technology | 1: Data Analysis and Review Team. (references) | 2: Direct Access Repository Toolkit. (references) | 3: Disaster Assistance Response Team. (references) | 4: Dual Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. (references) | 5: Dynamic Analysis and Replanning Tool. (references) | 6: Dynamic Analytical Replanning Tool. (references) |
| Transportation | That part of a missile which continues the mission beyond booster separation or burn-out. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (in plural) A game of throwing darts at a target. (references) | 2: [Noun] (obsolete) A spear set as a prize in running. - Geoffrey Chaucer. (references) | 3: [Noun] (zoology) A fish; the dace. See dace. (references) | 4: [Noun] A fold that is stitched on a garment. (references) | 5: [Noun] 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. Quotations And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. - 2nd Samuel 18:14. (references) | 6: [Noun] A sudden or fast movement. (references) | 7: [Noun] Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. Quotations The artful inquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart. - Hannan More. (references) | 8: [Verb] (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly. (references) | 9: [Verb] (intransitive) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket. (references) | 10: [Verb] (transitive) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? - Alexander Pope. (references) | 11: [Verb] (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: dart
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| AEA Silver Dart | The Silver Dart (or Aerodrome #4) was an early aircraft which was flown off the ice at Baddeck, Nova Scotia on February 23, 1909. This was the first controlled powered flight in Canada and the British Empire. The plane was piloted by one of its designers, John McCurdy. The original Silver Dart was the fruit of the Aerial Experiment Association formed under the guidance of Alexander Graham Bell. (references) | ||
| Blue Dart Aviation | Blue Dart Aviation is a cargo airline based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It operates scheduled night express cargo flights and domestic and regional charters. It has an in-house maintenance capability and provides aircraft maintenance and engineering support to other users. Its main bases are Hindustan Airport, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Indira Gandhi International Airport and Chennai International Airport, with hubs at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport and Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport. (references) | ||
| Boosted Dart | Boosted Dart is a United States single-stage sounding rocket of the Loki family. Between 1966 and 1968, 39 of these rockets were launched by NASA. The Boosted Dart has a length of 3.30 metres, a diametre of 0.1 metres and a maximum flight altitude of 75 kilometres. (references) | ||
| Cajun Dart | Cajun Dart is the designation of an American sounding rocket. The Cajun Dart was used 87 times between 1964 and 1970. (references) | ||
| Cupid's dart | South European plant having dark-eyed flowers with flat blue rays. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Dart (missile) | Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from javelins by fletching (i.e., feathers on the tail) and a shaft that is shorter and/or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal bow. (references) | ||
| Dart (rocket) | A dart is a free flying top of a sounding rocket, and contains the payload. Its form is very aerodynamically designed. After the launch stage burned out the dart is detached and continues to rise only with its own inertia. (references) | ||
| DART (spacecraft) | DART, or Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology, is a NASA sponsored project. The goal was to develop automated navigation and rendezvous capability and demonstrate it in a space craft. Orbital, the prime contractor, has built, launched and operated the vehicle. The $95 million dollar project was scheduled for launch October 25, 2004, but launch was postponed for launch loads analysis and performed on April 15, 2005. (references) | ||
| Dart board | A circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Dart Flipcards Inc. | Dart Flipcards Inc. market a line of novelty Mini Lunch Boxes, with licensed images on them. Based out of St. Laurent, Quebec, Dart's lunch boxes are filled with chewing gum, made in Canada, inside Chinese made tins, and are packaged in Canada. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: dart
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dart bailer | Mining | Device used to remove cuttings from the borehole. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Dart configuration | Aerospace | A configuration of an aerodynamic vehicle in which the control surfaces are at the tail of the vehicle. Contrast canard. (references) | |
| Dart leader | Physics | Leader stroke of a discharge other than the first of the series of a compound discharge, in which the ionized channel is established in a single jump. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Elbow dart | Industry | Darts at the elbow to allow ease in close-fitting sleeves that extend below the elbow. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Spring dart | Mining | A. A tool used to retrieve lost boring gear b. A device to withdraw the steel casing from a borehole when finished. The casing is cut into convenient lengths and then the spring dart is lowered to bring up each length separately. The dart springs open immediately when it meets a cut or recess in the casing, which length itthen grips and lifts to the surface. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: dart
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| DART | English | Dexterous Anthropomorphic Robotic Testbed | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
