Difference between Scud and Dart

What is the difference between Scud and Dart?

Scud as a verb is to race along swiftly (especially used of clouds). while Dart as a verb is to throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

Scud

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Naked.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds). To run before a high wind with no sails set. To hit. To speed. To skim.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of scudding. Clouds or rain driven by the wind. A gust of wind. A scab on a wound. Pornography. Irn-Bru. A Soviet-developed ballistic missile.

Dart

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quicklyTo start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.A sudden or fast movement.A fold that is stitched on a garment.A fish; the dace.A game of throwing darts at a target.

Example sentence: It's unbelievable pressure. Not everybody will get to feel that sort of pressure, to have a dart to win a World Championship.

We hope you now know whether to use Scud or Dart in your sentence.

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