A dart is a small, pointed object that flies through the air when thrown. It's usually made of metal and has a sharp tip.
You might throw a dart at a dartboard in a game or competition. But darts are also used for other things - like in medicine to give injections or for hunting to injure animals quickly.
How common is "dart"?
Word dart is considered uncommon in modern English. It appears most frequently in fiction texts and less often in other writings.
Definitions
noun
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
(sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
(Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
Example: 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
(military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
A sudden or fast movement.
Example: Soon as I felt the floor tremor I made a dart for the door.
