dart

«dart» in Mova's school dictionary: a small pointed object you throw at a round board in a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (dart, darts); verb (dart, darts, darted, darting)

meaning for a pupil

1) A dart is a small pointed object you throw at a round board in a game called darts. tree →

2) A dart is a small sharp arrow, often blown or shot. tree →

3) To dart is to move suddenly and very quickly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life «darts» is a pub and home game with a dartboard; scores are numbers. In stories animals dart away from danger. Phrases: «play darts», «dart across», «dart away», «dart a look».

examples

• A mouse darted across the kitchen floor. tree →
• Fish darted between the rocks. tree →
• My uncle plays darts every Friday. tree →
• The dart hit the middle of the board. tree →
• She darted out of the room. tree →
• Never throw darts near other people. tree →
• The rabbit darted into its hole. tree →

note

Safety: darts are sharp; only adults should play, and never throw towards people. «Darts» (the game) takes a singular verb: «Darts is fun». In maths, dartboards give scoring problems: doubles and trebles mean multiply the number by 2 or 3.

In the corpora

• In 2022 the DART spacecraft bumped into an asteroid and changed its path, a test of how to protect Earth.
• Sparrowhawks hunt garden birds by surprise, darting low along hedges, and the female is about twice as heavy as the male.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.