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Darted vs Dared - What's the difference?

darted | dared |

As verbs the difference between darted and dared

is that darted is (dart) while dared is (dare).

darted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dart)

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    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
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Mark Vesty , title=Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny.}}
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    dared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dare)

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    dare

    English

    (wikipedia dare)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) durran, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To have enough courage (to do something).
    • I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The fellow dares not deceive me.
  • * Macaulay
    • Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
    • I dare you to kiss that girl.
  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
    • Will you dare death to reach your goal?
  • * The Century
    • To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
  • To terrify; to daunt.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, / Would dare a woman.
  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
    • (Nares)
    Usage notes
    * Dare is a semimodal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct. * In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go." * Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". * The expression dare say'', used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt ''daresay . * Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.
    Derived terms
    * daredevil * daren't * daresay * daresn't

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A challenge to prove courage.
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It lends a lustre / A large dare to our great enterprise.
  • defiance; challenge
  • * Chapman
    • Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enought to part our powers.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) darian.

    Verb

    (dar)
  • (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
  • (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
  • *, Bk.XX, ch.xix:
  • *:‘Sir, here bene knyghtes com of kyngis blod that woll nat longe droupe and dare within thys wallys.’

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small fish, the dace.
  • * 1766 , Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing
    • The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.
    (Webster 1913)

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