The difference between Dart and Flag
When used as nouns, dart means a pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin, whereas flag means a piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
When used as verbs, dart means to throw with a sudden effort or thrust, whereas flag means to furnish or deck out with flags.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dart and Flag
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Dart as a noun:
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
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Dart as a noun:
Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
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Dart as a noun:
Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon (can be figurative).
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Dart as a noun:
A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
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Dart as a noun (Australia, obsolete):
A plan or scheme.
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Dart as a noun:
A sudden or fast movement.
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Dart as a noun (sewing):
A fold that is stitched on a garment.
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Dart as a noun:
the dace (fish).
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Dart as a noun (Australia, Canada, colloquial):
A cigarette.
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Dart as a verb (transitive):
To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
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Dart as a verb (transitive):
To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
Examples:
"The sun darts forth his beams."
"Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart? - rfdatek Alexander Pope"
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Dart as a verb (intransitive):
To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly
Examples:
"The flying man darted eastward."
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Dart as a verb (intransitive):
To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along
Examples:
"The deer darted from the thicket."
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Flag as a noun:
A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
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Flag as a noun:
An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
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Flag as a noun (nautical):
A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
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Flag as a noun (nautical, often used attributively):
A signal flag.
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Flag as a noun (construction):
a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or tiling
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Flag as a noun:
The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
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Flag as a noun (computer science):
A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
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Flag as a noun (computer science):
In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
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Flag as a noun (British):
An abbreviation for capture the flag.
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Flag as a noun (geometry):
A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
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Flag as a noun (mathematics, linear algebra):
A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
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Flag as a verb:
To furnish or deck out with flags.
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Flag as a verb:
To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
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Flag as a verb (often with ''down''):
To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
Examples:
"Please flag down a taxi for me."
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Flag as a verb:
To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
Examples:
"to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance"
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Flag as a verb (often with ''up''):
To note, mark or point out for attention.
Examples:
"I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this."
"Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate."
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Flag as a verb (computing):
To signal (an event).
Examples:
"The compiler flagged three errors."
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Flag as a verb (computing):
To set a program variable to true.
Examples:
"Flag the debug option before running the program."
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Flag as a verb:
To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
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Flag as a verb (sports):
To penalize for an infraction.
Examples:
"The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct."
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Flag as a verb (intransitive):
To weaken, become feeble.
Examples:
"His strength flagged toward the end of the race."
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Flag as a verb:
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
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Flag as a verb:
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
Examples:
"to flag the wings"
"rfquotek Prior"
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Flag as a verb:
To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
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Flag as a noun:
Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
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Flag as a noun (obsolete, _, except in dialects):
A slice of turf; a sod.
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Flag as a noun:
A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
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Flag as a noun (geology):
Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
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Flag as a verb (transitive):
To pave with flagstones.
Examples:
"Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend."
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Flag as a noun:
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
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Flag as a noun:
A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
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Flag as a noun:
The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
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Flag as a noun (music):
A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value