Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dart. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dart.
Definitions and meaning of dart
dart
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɑːt/
(General American) enPR: därt, IPA(key): /dɑɹt/
(Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): [daɹt̚], [daɹɾ̥]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishdart, from Old Frenchdart, dard(“dart”), from Medieval Latindardus, from Frankish*darōþu(“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic*darōþuz(“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European*dʰerh₃-(“to leap, spring”); compare Old High Germantart(“javelin, dart”), Old Englishdaroþ, dearod(“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedishdart(“dart, dagger”), Icelandicdarraður, darr, dör(“dart, spear”).
Noun
dart (pluraldarts)
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
(sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
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.
(Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
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The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.
(military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
(Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
A sudden or fast movement.
(sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
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Etymology 2
From Middle Englishdarten, from the noun (see above).
Verb
dart (third-person singular simple presentdarts, present participledarting, simple past and past participledarted)
(transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
(transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
The sun darts forth his beams.
(transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer 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.
(intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
Derived terms
dart about
dartle
darter
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References
“dart”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.