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Butterfly vs. Dart — What's the Difference?

Butterfly vs. Dart — What's the Difference?

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Butterfly

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.

Dart

A small pointed missile that can be thrown or fired
She shot the animal with a tranquillizing dart
The classroom was littered with paper darts

Butterfly

A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. Butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.

Dart

An act of running somewhere suddenly and rapidly
The cat made a dart for the door

Butterfly

A stroke in swimming in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forwards together.
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Dart

A tapered tuck stitched in a garment in order to shape it
Stitch collarband on to neck edge and stitch darts

Butterfly

Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat
Butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife

Dart

Move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly
She darted across the street

Butterfly

Any of numerous insects of the order Lepidoptera, having four broad, usually colorful wings, and generally distinguished from the moths by having a slender body and knobbed antennae and being active during the day.

Dart

Shoot (an animal) with a dart, typically in order to administer a drug
He darted the leopard with a long-acting anaesthetic

Butterfly

A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure
A social butterfly.

Dart

A pointed missile, often having tail fins, thrown by hand, shot from a blowgun, or expelled by an exploding bomb.

Butterfly

A swimming stroke in which a swimmer lying face down draws both arms upward out of the water, thrusts them forward, and draws them back under the water in an hourglass design while performing a dolphin kick.

Dart

Darts (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A game in which such missiles are thrown at a target.

Butterfly

A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.

Dart

An object likened to such a missile.

Butterfly

Butterflies A feeling of unease or mild nausea caused especially by fearful anticipation.

Dart

The stinger of an insect.

Butterfly

To cut and spread open and flat, as shrimp.

Dart

A sudden, rapid movement
He made a dart for the door.

Butterfly

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.

Dart

A tapered tuck sewn to adjust the fit of a garment.

Butterfly

A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
Butterfly tape; butterfly bandage; butterfly strips

Dart

To move suddenly and rapidly
The dog darted across the street.

Butterfly

(swimming) The butterfly stroke.

Dart

To be directed suddenly and rapidly
His eyes darted around the room.

Butterfly

Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic). Category:en:Curves

Dart

To cause to dart
The squirrel darted its head from side to side.

Butterfly

(in plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
I get terrible butterflies before an exam.

Dart

(Archaic) To throw or cast (a dart or missile).

Butterfly

Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.

Dart

To cast (a look or the eyes) suddenly and rapidly in a direction.

Butterfly

(finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.

Dart

To shoot (an animal, for example) with a dart, especially to inject a drug.

Butterfly

(alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
One potential butterfly could be JFK having another son the year after the POD instead of a daughter.

Dart

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.

Butterfly

(sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.

Dart

Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

Butterfly

A person who changes partners frequently.

Dart

Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.

Butterfly

(transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
Butterflied shrimp
Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.

Dart

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.

Butterfly

(transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

Dart

A cigarette.

Butterfly

To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.

Dart

(military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.

Butterfly

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

Dart

A plan or scheme.

Butterfly

Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

Dart

A sudden or fast movement.

Butterfly

A swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

Dart

(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.

Butterfly

Flutter like a butterfly

Dart

A fish, the dace.

Butterfly

Cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking;
Butterflied shrimp

Dart

Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.

Butterfly

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;
The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
My husband never flirts with other women

Dart

(transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.

Dart

(transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
The sun darts forth his beams.

Dart

(transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help

Dart

(intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
The flying man darted eastward.

Dart

(intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
The deer darted from the thicket.

Dart

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.
And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom.

Dart

Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
The artful inquiry, whose venomed dartScarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

Dart

A spear set as a prize in running.

Dart

A fish; the dace. See Dace.

Dart

To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

Dart

To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.
Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?

Dart

To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.

Dart

To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

Dart

A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot

Dart

A tapered tuck made in dressmaking

Dart

A sudden quick movement

Dart

Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

Dart

Run or move very quickly or hastily;
She dashed into the yard

Dart

Move with sudden speed;
His forefinger darted in all directions as he spoke

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