Dirted vs Darted - What's the difference?
dirted | darted |
(dirt)
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
(dart)
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.
* {{quote-news
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, date=Septembe 24
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania
, work=BBC Sport
(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
* 2013 , The Economist,
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
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Mark Vesty
, title=Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal
, work=BBC
As verbs the difference between dirted and darted
is that dirted is (dirt) while darted is (dart).dirted
English
Verb
(head)dirt
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
Derived terms
* dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirtdarted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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)- 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.
page 38,
- 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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Nadia Popova
- 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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