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4-letter words (3 found)

DART,DRAT,TRAD,

3-letter words (6 found)

ARD,ART,RAD,RAT,TAD,TAR,

2-letter words (5 found)

AD,AR,AT,DA,TA,

You can make 14 words from dart according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dart

dart adrt drat rdat ardt radt datr adtr dtar tdar atdr tadr drta rdta dtra tdra rtda trda artd ratd atrd tard rtad trad

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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 English dart, from Old French dart, dard (dart), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (dart, spear), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (dart, spear), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (to leap, spring); compare Old High German tart (javelin, dart), Old English daroþ, dearod (javelin, spear, dart), Swedish dart (dart, dagger), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (dart, spear).

Noun

dart (plural darts)

  1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
  2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
  3. (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
  4. 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.
  5. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
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  6. (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
  7. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
  8. A sudden or fast movement.
  9. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
  10. A dace (fish) (Leuciscus leuciscus).
  11. Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)

  1. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
  2. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
    The sun darts forth his beams.
  3. (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
  4. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
    The flying man darted eastward.
  5. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
Derived terms
  • dart about
  • dartle
  • darter
Translations

References

  • “dart”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • 'tard, -tard, ADRT, Art.D., DTRA, drat, tard, trad

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dart.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑrt/
  • Hyphenation: dart
  • Rhymes: -ɑrt

Noun

dart m (plural darts, diminutive dartje n)

  1. dart
    Synonym: dartpijl

Derived terms

  • darten
  • dartpijl

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu, from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz.

Alternative forms

  • darte

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dart/

Noun

dart (plural dartes)

  1. A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
  2. (figurative) Assailing; a hostile act.
Descendants
  • English: dart
    • Dutch: dart
    • German: Dart
  • Scots: dart, dairt; dard
References
  • “dart, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-29.

Etymology 2

Formed from the noun.

Verb

dart

  1. Alternative form of darten

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • dard, dar

Etymology

Old French, see below

Noun

dart m (plural dars)

  1. weapon similar to a javelin

Descendants

  • French: dard
    • Italian: dardo
    • Portuguese: dardo
    • Spanish: dardo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural darter, definite plural dartene)

  1. a throwing dart

References

  • “dart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural dartar, definite plural dartane)

  1. a throwing dart

References

  • “dart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • dard, dar

Etymology

From Medieval Latin dardus (spear).

Noun

dart oblique singularm (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)

  1. spear, javelin

Descendants

  • Middle French: dart, dard, dar
    • French: dard
      • Italian: dardo
      • Portuguese: dardo
      • Spanish: dardo
  • Walloon: darde
  • Middle English: dart, darte
    • English: dart
      • Dutch: dart
      • German: Dart
    • Scots: dart, dairt; dard

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀatus, from Proto-Austronesian *ɣatus.

Numeral

dart

  1. hundred

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

  • dort
  • datt

Etymology

Compare German dort, da.

Adverb

dart

  1. there

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz.

Noun

dart c

  1. (games, sports) darts
  2. (rare) a dart (thrown in darts)
    Synonym: pil

Derived terms

  • darttavla

See also

  • pilkastning (throwing darts against a board generally)

References

  • dart in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • dart in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • dart in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org