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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)
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slide
English
Etymology
From Middle English sliden, from Old English sl?dan (“to slide”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?dan? (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sléyd?-e-ti, from *sleyd?- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old High German sl?tan (“to slide”) (whence German schlittern), Middle Low German sl?den (“to slide”), Middle Dutch sl?den (“to slide”) (whence Dutch slijderen, frequentative of now obsolete slijden), Vedic Sanskrit ??????? (srédhati, “to err, blunder”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
slide (third-person singular simple present slides, present participle sliding, simple past slid, past participle slid or (archaic) slidden)
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
- They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.
- c. 1685, Edmund Waller, Of the Invasion and Defeat of the Turks
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- (music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- Synonyms: toboggan, sled
Derived terms
- aslide
- let slide
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
Translations
Noun
slide (plural slides)
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dana to this entry?)
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (clothing) A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- (vulgar slang) a promiscuous woman, slut
Synonyms
- (item of play equipment): slippery dip
- (inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity): chute
- (mechanism of a part which slides on or against a guide): runner
Hyponyms
- helter-skelter
Derived terms
- (transparent plate bearing an image): slide projector, slide viewer
Descendants
- ? Czech: slajd
- ? Japanese: ???? (suraido)
- ? Portuguese: slide
Translations
Anagrams
- Diels, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, sidle, siled, sleid
Danish
Etymology
from Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan?, cognate with Swedish slita, English slit, German schleißen, Dutch slijten,
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sli?ð?]
Verb
slide (imperative slid, infinitive at slide, present tense slider, past tense sled, perfect tense har slidt)
- labour; work hard
- chafe
Inflection
Middle English
Verb
slide
- Alternative form of sliden
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English slide.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /iz.?laj.d??i/, /?slajd??/, /?zlajd??/, /?slajd/
Noun
slide m (plural slides)
- slide (transparent image for projecting)
- Synonyms: transparência, diapositivo
- slide (a frame in a slideshow)
- (music) slide (device for playing slide guitar)
- (music) slide (guitar technique where the player moves finger up or down the fretboard)
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