SPLAY
\splˈe͡ɪ], \splˈeɪ], \s_p_l_ˈeɪ]\
Definitions of SPLAY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table"
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an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
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turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
By Princeton University
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spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table"
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an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To display; to spread.
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To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
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To spay; to castrate.
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To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
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Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
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A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
By Oddity Software
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A sloped surface.
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Spread out; broad and flattened; hence, clumsy; splay foot, a foot unnaturally flat and turned out.
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Splayed.
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Splaying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald