different between dart vs flit
dart
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??t/
- (General American) enPR: därt, IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??- (“to sharpen”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).
Noun
dart (plural darts)
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,
- Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
- 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- (sometimes figuratively) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,
- The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
- 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,
- 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.
- (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
- 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)
- Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.
- 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)
- (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
- 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,
- Trucking?s my dart too.
- 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,
- A sudden or fast movement.
- (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- A fish, the dace.
- (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
- 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.
- 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).
Verb
dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)
- (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
- The sun darts forth his beams.
- (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart
- (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
- The flying man darted eastward.
- (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
Derived terms
- dartle
- darter
Translations
References
- dart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- 'tard, -tard, ADRT, Art.D., DTRA, drat, tard, trad
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English dart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?rt/
- Hyphenation: dart
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
dart m (plural darts, diminutive dartje n)
- dart
- Synonym: dartpijl
Derived terms
- darten
- dartpijl
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.
Alternative forms
- darte
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dart/
Noun
dart (plural dartes)
- A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
- (figuratively) Assailing; a hostile act.
Descendants
- English: dart
- ? Dutch: dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
References
- “dart, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-29.
Etymology 2
Formed from the noun.
Verb
dart
- Alternative form of darten
Middle French
Alternative forms
- dard, dar
Etymology
Old French, see below
Noun
dart m (plural dars)
- weapon similar to a javelin
Descendants
- French: dard
- ? Italian: dardo
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English dart.
Noun
dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural darter, definite plural dartene)
- a throwing dart
References
- “dart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English dart.
Noun
dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural dartar, definite plural dartane)
- a throwing dart
References
- “dart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
- dard, dar
Etymology
From Medieval Latin dardus (“spear”).
Noun
dart m (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)
- spear, javelin
Descendants
- Middle French: dart, dard, dar
- French: dard
- ? Italian: dardo
- French: dard
- Walloon: darde
- ? Middle English: dart, darte
- English: dart
- ? Dutch: dart
- Scots: dart, dairt; dard
- English: dart
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?atus, from Proto-Austronesian *?atus.
Numeral
dart
- hundred
Pennsylvania German
Alternative forms
- dort
- datt
Etymology
Compare German dort, da.
Adverb
dart
- there
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.
Noun
dart c
- darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
- (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)
Synonyms
- pilkastning (1)
- pil (2)
dart From the web:
- what darts do pros use
- what darth vader
- what darts to use with blowpipe
- what darts should i buy
- what darth vader actually says to luke
- what dart weight should i use
- what darth vader serves
- what dartboard do professionals use
flit
English
Etymology
From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”). Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
flit (plural flits)
- A fluttering or darting movement.
- (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
- My computer just had a flit.
- (slang) A homosexual.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 18:
- The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 18:
Derived terms
- moonlight flit
Verb
flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flitting, simple past and past participle flitted)
- To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- 1855, Tennyson, Maud:
- A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.
- 1855, Tennyson, Maud:
- To move quickly from one location to another.
- 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Chapter 5:
- By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.
- 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Chapter 5:
- (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
- My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
- (Britain, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, page 199 ?ISBN
- After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.
- 1859, George Dasent (tr.), Popular Tales from the Norse, "The Cat on the Dovrefell":
- […] we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.
- To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
- To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
- the free soul to flitting air resign'd
Related terms
- dart
- dash
- flirt
- lunge
Translations
Adjective
flit (comparative more flit, superlative most flit)
- (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
Anagrams
- ILTF, lift
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
flit m (definite singular fliten, uncountable)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by flid m
Scots
Verb
flit (third-person singular present flits, present participle flittin, past flittit, past participle flittit)
- To move house.
- To flit.
Derived terms
- munelicht flittin
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish flit, from Middle Low German vl?t, vlît (cognate with German Low German Fliet, Saterland Frisian Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Danish flid, Norwegian Bokmål flid, Norwegian Nynorsk flit, and German Fleiß, Fleiss).
Pronunciation
Noun
flit c
- diligence, industriousness, energy
- där flitens lampa brinner
- where [someone] works long hours
- där flitens lampa brinner
Declension
Related terms
- flitbetyg
- flitig
- flitpengar
References
- flit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- flit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
- filt
Westrobothnian
Noun
flit m (definite flitn, dative flitåm)
- Fly-Tox (insecticide)
flit From the web:
- what filters the blood
- what filters lymph
- what filters alcohol
- what filter for silhouette challenge
- what filter to use on tiktok
- what filter is used for the silhouette challenge
- what filter is the disney filter on tiktok
- what filter is this
you may also like
- dart vs flit
- dash vs flit
- ramp vs rampage
- impotence vs impotent
- cohesive vs adhesive
- shorage vs shore
- longshoreman vs shore
- cubitus vs cubit
- lawfully vs lawful
- jodhpurs vs jodhpur
- dungarees vs dungaree
- kamasutra vs sutra
- brilliantness vs brilliance
- pyrotechny vs pyrotechnics
- pyrotechnist vs pyrotechnics
- pyrotechnical vs pyrotechnics
- pyrotechnic vs pyrotechnics
- pneumatization vs pneumatic
- pneumaticity vs pneumatic
- pneumatics vs pneumatic