(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.
Launch
Definition:
(v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
(v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
(v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
(v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
(v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.
(n.) The act of launching.
(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(4) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(5) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(6) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(7) She successfully appealed against the council’s decision to refuse planning permission, but neighbours have launched a legal challenge to be heard at the high court in June.
(8) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(9) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(10) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
(11) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(12) Following its success, Littleloud created a version of the game for Apple's iPad, launched onto the App Store at Christmas.
(13) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(14) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(15) In the Isa world, the past few weeks have seen a flurry of new launches , some offering table-topping rates .
(16) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
(17) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
(18) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(19) He was given a standing ovation as he arrived on stage for the launch event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, San Francisco.
(20) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.