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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#m1)

2) A dart is a small sharp arrow, often blown or shot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#m2)

3) To dart is to move suddenly and very quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x1)
- Fish darted between the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x2)
- My uncle plays darts every Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x3)
- The dart hit the middle of the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x4)
- She darted out of the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x5)
- Never throw darts near other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x6)
- The rabbit darted into its hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/14/)
- [Sparrowhawks hunt garden birds by surprise, darting low along hedges, and the female is about twice as heavy as the male.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.