Dictionary

darting en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Characterized by sudden, quick movements.
   • Stella was very quick, very darting. 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Haldanes:
   • Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep. 1989, James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, page 429:
   • Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky. 1905, Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker, The Birds of Tunisia, page 221:
   • Near-synonym: dartlike

Forms

Deriveds

dartingly · dartingness

Synonyms

dartlike

darting en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A motion or gesture that darts.
   • Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on. 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
   • During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue. 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
2. (countable, uncountable) The use of darts (folds stitched on a garment).

Forms

darting en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dart
   form of dart