noun

• (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  "The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart."
• (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
  "2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news."
• (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
  "Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft."
• (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
  "Trucking′s my dart too."

verb

• (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
• (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
  "As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me."
• (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
  "They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help"
• (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
  "The flying man darted eastward."

noun

• (UK, naval slang) An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.

name

• (genetics) Acronym of Diversity arrays technology (“a genetic marker technique”).