darting
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]darting (comparative more darting, superlative most darting)
- Characterized by sudden, quick movements.
- 1905, Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker, The Birds of Tunisia, page 221:
- Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.
- 1989, James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, page 429:
- Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep.
- 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Haldanes:
- Stella was very quick, very darting.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]darting
- present participle and gerund of dart
Noun
[edit]darting (plural dartings)
- A motion or gesture that darts.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- 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.
- 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
- 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.