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Is dart a Scrabble word?

Yes, dart is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of dart?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.Examples: "The artful inquiry, whose venom′d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart."figurativelysometimes

2. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.Examples: "2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse 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."AustraliaCanadacolloquial

3. (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.Examples: "Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft."

4. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.Examples: "Trucking′s my dart too."Australiaobsolete

5. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.Examples: "Somehow she managed, with a cinched waist here and a few darts there, to look like a Hollywood star."

verb (English)

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

2. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.Examples: "As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me."; "Pan came, and ask'd, what magic caus'd my ſmart, / Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?"; "Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit."transitive

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

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

5. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.Examples: "The deer darted from the thicket."; "The fish darted under a stone."; "By half-time, it was almost a surprise that the away side had restricted themselves to only one more goal. Messi, again, was prominently involved, darting past Fernando and then Zabaleta."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (UK, naval slang) An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.UKslang

name (English)

1. (genetics) Acronym of Diversity arrays technology (“a genetic marker technique”).abbreviationacronymalt-of

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "dart"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "dart"?

Scrabble
5 points
D2
A1
R1
T1
Words With Friends
5 points
D2
A1
R1
T1

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