different between plod vs dart

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d, -??d

Etymology 1

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod (“a puddle”). Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (uncountable)

1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

   We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

Verb

plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)

1. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,^[1]

     The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,

     Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Part One, Chapter 1

     I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;

2. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
   • 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,^[2]

     Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?

     Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.

   • 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,^[3]

     […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,

     Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,

     'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70,^[4]

     Break no rosemary, bright with rime

     And sparkling to the cruel clime;

     Nor plod the winter land to look

     For willows in the icy brook

     To cast them leafless round him […]

3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,^[5]

     Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,

     which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,

     He must be still familiar with the skyes,

     which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;

Derived terms

• plodder
• plodding

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).

Noun

plod (plural plods)

1. (obsolete) A puddle.

Etymology 3

From PC Plod.

Noun

plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)

1. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
2. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

Synonyms

• (the police): See Thesaurus:police
• (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

Translations

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plot/

Noun

plod m

1. fruit
2. fetus

Declension

Derived terms

• oplodí n

See also

• embryo
• zárodek
• ovoce

Further reading

• plod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?

Noun

plod n (plural plozi)

1. (derogatory) small child
2. (colloquial) fetus

Declension

Further reading

• plod in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plô?d/

Noun

pl?d m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fruit (part of plant)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pló?t/

Noun

pl??d m inan

1. fruit (part of plant)

Inflection

Derived terms

• pl??den

Further reading

• “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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)

1. 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.

2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
3. (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.

4. 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.
5. (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.

6. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
   • 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,

     Trucking?s my dart too.

7. A sudden or fast movement.
8. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
9. A fish, the dace.
10. (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.

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)

1. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
2. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot

   The sun darts forth his beams.
3. (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart

4. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly

   The flying man darted eastward.

5. (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)

1. 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)

1. A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
2. (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

1. Alternative form of darten

Middle French

Alternative forms

• dard, dar

Etymology

Old French, see below

Noun

dart m (plural dars)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. spear, javelin

Descendants

• Middle French: dart, dard, dar
  • French: dard
    • ? Italian: dardo
• Walloon: darde
• ? Middle English: dart, darte
  • English: dart
    • ? Dutch: dart
  • Scots: dart, dairt; dard

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?atus, from Proto-Austronesian *?atus.

Numeral

dart

1. hundred

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

• dort
• datt

Etymology

Compare German dort, da.

Adverb

dart

1. there

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.

Noun

dart c

1. darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
2. (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)

Synonyms

• pilkastning (1)
• pil (2)