different between trail vs dart

English

Etymology

From Middle English trailen, from Old French trailler (“to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”), from Vulgar Latin *tragul?re (“to drag”), from Latin tragula (“dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”), probably related to Latin trahere (“to pull, drag along”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?l, IPA^(key): /t?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Verb

trail (third-person singular simple present trails, present participle trailing, simple past and past participle trailed)

1. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).

2. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.

3. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).

4. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.

5. (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.

   The bride's long dress trailed behind her as she walked down the aisle.
6. (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
7. (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.

   Our parents marched to church and we trailed behind.

8. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
9. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
10. To create a trail in.
11. To travel by following or creating trails.
12. To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
13. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

      I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.

Derived terms

• trailer
• trail off

Translations

Noun

trail (plural trails)

1. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
2. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
3. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
4. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.

Synonyms

• (track of an animal): spoor, sign
• (route for travel over land): dirt track, footpath, path, track

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• path
• track

Anagrams

• TRALI, irtal, litra, trial

French

Noun

trail f (plural trails)

1. Dual-sport motorcycle
2. Trail running

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)