Dart vs Shoot - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between dart and shoot

is that dart is to send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot while shoot is to penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

In intransitive terms the difference between dart and shoot

is that dart is to start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along while shoot is to move very quickly and suddenly.

As an interjection shoot is

A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

dart
English
2.Barrel 3.O-ring 4.Shaft 5.Collar 6.Flight 7.Protector.
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dart, from (etyl) dart, .
Noun
(en noun)
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,

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.

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, page 38,

The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.

* 1947 , , Halfway to Anywhere , 1970, page 79,

Trucking?s my dart too.

A sudden or fast movement.

* {{quote-news
, year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six minutes later Cueto went over for his second try after the recalled Mike Tindall found him with a perfectly-timed pass, before Ashton went on another dart , this time down his opposite wing, only for his speculative pass inside to be ruled forward.}}
(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.

* 2013 , The Economist, Nadia Popova

Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star.

A fish; the dace.

(in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.

Derived terms
* dart sac
Etymology 2
From (etyl) darten, from the noun (see above).
Verb
(en verb)
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

The sun darts forth his beams.

Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart ? -

To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly

The flying man darted eastward.

To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along

The deer darted from the thicket.

* {{quote-news
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shoot
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .
Verb

To launch a projectile.

# (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).

# (label) To fire (a projectile).

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.

# (label) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

# (label) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.

# (label) To ejaculate.

# To begin to speak.

# (label) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.

# To dismiss or do away with.

# To photograph.

To move or act quickly or suddenly.

# (label) To move very quickly and suddenly.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.

#* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII

It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.

#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges
# To go over or pass quickly through.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Sheshoots the Stygian sound.

# (label) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.

# (label) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

Thy words shoot through my heart.

# To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

#* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)

These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.

# (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.

# To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

#* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle

#* (1800-1859)

a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores

# To send to someone.

(label) To act or achieve.

# (label) To lunge.

# (label) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).

# To make the stated score.

(label) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

To develop, move forward.

# To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.

# To grow; to advance.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Well shot in years he seemed.

#* (1700-1748)

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .

# (label) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

# To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out .

#* Bible, (Psalms) xxii. 7

They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.

(label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

* (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)

two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^(w)

* (1809-1892)

The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.

Quotations
* (English Citations of "shoot")
Derived terms
* like shooting fish in a barrel * re-shoot * shoot down * shooter * shoot from the hip * shoot from the lip * shoot one's bolt * shoot oneself in the foot * shoot one's mouth off * shoot one's wad * shoot the boots * shoot the bull * shoot the messenger * shoot up
Noun
(en noun)
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

* Evelyn

Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.

A photography session.

A hunt or shooting competition.

(professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

* Francis Bacon

The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .

* Drayton

One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.

A rush of water; a rapid.

(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

(Knight)

(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

A shoat; a young pig.

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
(Webster 1913)
Derived terms
* (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shoot
Etymology 2
minced oath for (shit)
Interjection
(en interjection)

Didn't you have a concert tonight?

Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...

Synonyms
* (mild expletive) darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks
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