(n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
(n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
(n.) A spear set as a prize in running.
(n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.
(v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
(v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.
(v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
(v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proceptivity (hop-darting) was facilitated by progesterone in females, but was never observed in males.
(2) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(3) ACTUALLY, IT GOT RATHER MORE THAN THAT World Darts, Sky Sports 1, 7pm – The PDC World Darts final, won by Adrian Lewis in a thrilling 7-5 win over Gary Anderson , averaged 884,000 viewers – and peaked with 1.27 million.
(4) Findley darts round him and slots him beneath the advancing Ricketts.
(5) After darting in from the left the forward fired a low shot past Martínez at the near post to crown a superb personal performance.
(6) Following 6 days of mental or physical practice by the experimental groups, the performance level on the dart-throwing task was again measured for all subjects.
(7) Playback partially reduced darting to control levels.
(8) She’s already being controlled.” Helping professionals recognise coercive control is a key reason that Monckton-Smith has created a new diagnostic system called Dart ( domestic abuse reference tool ): she hopes it will help elicit new information so that frontline workers can respond to the extreme danger that victims are in.
(9) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
(10) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(11) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
(12) Soliciting behavior (hop-darting) was not enhanced by any treatment, suggesting that catecholamine activity has an inhibitory influence on the stop component of sexual behavior, but not on the whole copulatory pattern.
(13) But Marshall had also had to deny Tyler Walker twice and Michail Antonio once, with important stops, before finally having his resistance broken in the 86th minute, after Antonio had darted clear.
(14) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.
(15) Chelsea could at least draw encouragement from Eden Hazard's winner, the team's leading scorer fed by Ashley Cole's pass to dart inside Jordi Amat and skim a shot goalwards, which Tremmel might have saved had Ashley Williams not dived across his eye-line.
(16) On Sunday, Leslee Dart, a publicist for Allen, 78, said: Mr Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful.
(17) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(18) If Labour were in fighting mood, there is no shortage of weak spots on the Conservative flank at which they could aim their darts.
(19) Protein occurs in the dart structure as an external sheath, as a lining to the tubular core and as a matrix component of the mineral phase.
(20) Small fish are darting in and out with as little apparent purpose as our day so far.
Emit
Definition:
(v. t.) To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
(v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(2) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(3) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(4) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
(5) To determine whether electromagnetic fields emitted by VDTs are associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion, a cohort of female telephone operators who used VDTs at work was compared with a cohort of operators who did not use VDTs.
(6) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(7) Kinetic analysis of residue and outflow curves of gamma-emitting indicators such as chromium-51-EDTA and iodide-131-thalamate from skeletal muscle gives the possibility to determine the extraction fraction and the plasma flow, and from these two values the capillary diffusion capacity can be calculated (Sejrsen 1970, preliminary report).
(8) Excellent correlation between EMIT and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been previously established.
(9) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(10) The accuracy of two modified enzyme immunoassay (EMIT) methods using reduced sample and reagent volumes for determining serum tobramycin concentrations was compared with that of the standard method.
(11) Urine specimens from 93 selected subjects were run by fluorescence polarization immunoassay on the Abbott TDx; by enzyme multiplied immunoassay with two Syva EMIT assays; and by thin-layer chromatography with the TOXI-LAB system (Marion Laboratories).
(12) We have isolated a mutant of the luminous bacterium Beneckea harveyi, which requires exogenous adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) to synthesize luciferase and emit light.
(13) Comparisons of homogeneous enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) revealed that the EMIT slightly over-estimated plasma carbamazepine levels due to immunochemical cross reactivity with the epoxide metabolite.
(14) A homogeneous enzyme immunoassay (EMIT) for serum thyroxine determination has been evaluated.
(15) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(16) UMLBs (n = 14) had no spontaneous activity and emitted bursts of action potentials that preceded rapid eye movements by approximately 6 ms. Parameters of the burst (duration and number of spikes) were highly correlated with parameters of the rapid eye movement (duration and amplitude of the upward displacement of the eyes).
(17) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(18) Sensitive cocultivation techniques were applied to study the radiation-induced activation of endogenous retroviral genomes in different mouse strains by the alpha-emitting radionuclide 224Radium.
(19) Eigenmannia is a weakly electric fish that emits a constant-frequency electric organ discharge (EOD).
(20) The EMIT assay was found reliable in therapeutic drug monitoring.