Dart vs Sail - What's the difference?
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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
* 1769 , Oxford Standard Text, , xviii, 14,
Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
* 1830 , , Sensibility'', ''The Works of Hannah More , Volume 1,
(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
* 1947 , , Halfway to Anywhere , 1970,
A sudden or fast movement.
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(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
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A fish; the dace.
(in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
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(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
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(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
(dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail .
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
(fishing) A sailfish.
(paleontology) an outward projection of the
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
* Spenser
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
* Shakespeare
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To move briskly.
Dart is a related term of sail.
As a noun sail is
salt.dart
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2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.Etymology 1
From (etyl) dart, from (etyl) dart, .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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- The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.
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- Trucking?s my dart too.
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- Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.
Derived terms
* dart sacEtymology 2
From (etyl) darten, from the noun (see above).Verb
(en verb)- The sun darts forth his beams.
- Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart ? -
- The flying man darted eastward.
- The deer darted from the thicket.
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English
(wikipedia sail)Etymology 1
From (etyl) 'to cut'. More at saw.Noun
(en noun)- When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive / And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
- Let's go for a sail .
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- We caught three sails today.
- Like an eagle soaring / To weather his broad sails .
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* balloon sail * by sail * drag sail * dragon sail * point of sail * sailback * sailboard * sailboat * sailcloth * sailer * sailfish * sailing * studding sail * set sail * take the wind out of someone's sails * topsail * working sailEtymology 2
(etyl) , cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.Verb
(en verb)- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
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