What part of speech is dart?

Dart can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dart is a verb, present, 1st person singular of dart (infinitive).
  • 2. dart is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. dart is a noun, singular of darts.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does dart mean?

Definitions

Verb

dart - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
dart - move with sudden speed; "His forefinger darted in all directions as he spoke"
dart - move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches"

Noun

dart - a tapered tuck made in dressmaking
dart - a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot
dart - a sudden quick movement

Examples of dart

#   Sentence  
1. noun They dance in circles to communicate a short distance, and shake their bodies and dart back and forth to indicate a longer distance.
2. noun The last dart he threw, bounced off the board.
3. noun Tom threw the dart.
4. noun Tom was hit by a tranquilizer dart.
5. noun Tom was killed by a poison dart fired from a blowgun.
6. noun Lashed into foam, behind them roars the brine; / now, gliding onward to the beach, ere long / they gain the fields, and rolling bloodshot eyne / that blaze with fire, the monsters move along, / and lick their hissing jaws, and dart a flickering tongue.
7. noun The old man spoke and, with a feeble throw, / at Pyrrhus with a harmless dart he drave. / The jarring metal blunts it, and below / the shield-boss, down it hangs, and foils the purposed blow.
8. noun When thus the prophet Helenus I hail, / "Troy-born interpreter of Heaven! whose art / the signs of Phoebus' pleasure can impart; / thou know'st the tripod and the Clarian bay, / the stars, the voices of the birds, that dart / on wings with omens laden, speak and say, / (since fate and all the gods foretell a prosperous way / and point to far Italia)."
9. noun A herd of elephants form a protective circle against a perceived threat, just after one was shot with a tranquilizer dart during an operation to attach GPS tracking collars in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, March 21, 2018.
10. noun Tom was killed with a poisoned dart.
11. noun Tom got hit by a tranquilizer dart.
Sentence  
noun
They dance in circles to communicate a short distance, and shake their bodies and dart back and forth to indicate a longer distance.
The last dart he threw, bounced off the board.
Tom threw the dart.
Tom was hit by a tranquilizer dart.
Tom was killed by a poison dart fired from a blowgun.
Lashed into foam, behind them roars the brine; / now, gliding onward to the beach, ere long / they gain the fields, and rolling bloodshot eyne / that blaze with fire, the monsters move along, / and lick their hissing jaws, and dart a flickering tongue.
The old man spoke and, with a feeble throw, / at Pyrrhus with a harmless dart he drave. / The jarring metal blunts it, and below / the shield-boss, down it hangs, and foils the purposed blow.
When thus the prophet Helenus I hail, / "Troy-born interpreter of Heaven! whose art / the signs of Phoebus' pleasure can impart; / thou know'st the tripod and the Clarian bay, / the stars, the voices of the birds, that dart / on wings with omens laden, speak and say, / (since fate and all the gods foretell a prosperous way / and point to far Italia)."
A herd of elephants form a protective circle against a perceived threat, just after one was shot with a tranquilizer dart during an operation to attach GPS tracking collars in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, March 21, 2018.
Tom was killed with a poisoned dart.
Tom got hit by a tranquilizer dart.

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