What does SPAT mean?

Definitions for SPAT
spætspat

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fussnoun

    a quarrel about petty points

  2. spat, gaiternoun

    a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles

  3. spatverb

    a young oyster or other bivalve

  4. spatverb

    come down like raindrops

    "Bullets were spatting down on us"

  5. spatverb

    become permanently attached

    "mollusks or oysters spat"

  6. spatverb

    strike with a sound like that of falling rain

    "Bullets were spatting the leaves"

  7. applaud, clap, spat, acclaimverb

    clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval

  8. spatverb

    engage in a brief and petty quarrel

  9. spatverb

    spawn

    "oysters spat"

  10. clap, spatverb

    clap one's hands together

    "The children were clapping to the music"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Spatnoun

    The young shell-fish.

    A reticulated film found upon sea-shells, and usually supposed to be the remains of the vesicles of the spat of some sort of shell-fish. John Woodward, on Fossils.

  2. Spatthe preterite of spit.

    And when he had spat on the ground, he anointed his eyes. Gospel.

ChatGPT

  1. spat

    A spat refers to a minor disagreement or argument, typically involving an exchange of non-physical confrontations. It is often brief and less serious compared to a full-fledged conflict or dispute. This term can also refer to a period of cooler weather, a covering for the ankle and instep, or a larval oyster.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Spat

    imp. of Spit

  2. Spatnoun

    a young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively

  3. Spat

    to emit spawn; to emit, as spawn

  4. Spatnoun

    a light blow with something flat

  5. Spatnoun

    hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension

  6. Spatverb

    to dispute

  7. Spatverb

    to slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands

  8. Spat

    of Spit

  9. Etymology: [Short for Spatterdash.]

Wikidata

  1. Spat

    The spat, from the Latin Spatium is the unit of solid angle. 1 spat is equal to 4pi steredians of solid angle. The spat is also an obsolete unit of distance used in astronomy. It is equal to one billion kilometres. It is about 1.057×10^-4 light-years or 3.240×10^-5 parsecs.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Spat

    spat, pa.t. of spit, to throw from the mouth.

  2. Spat

    spat, n. the spawn of shellfish.—v.i. to shed spawn. [From root of spit.]

  3. Spat

    spat, n. a slap: a large drop, as of rain: a petty quarrel.—v.t. to slap, to strike lightly.—v.i. to engage in a petty quarrel.

  4. Spat

    spat, n. a gaiter or legging—usually in pl. [Spatter-dashes.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. spat

    The spawn or ova of the oyster.

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  1. stap

  2. taps

  3. past

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SPAT in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SPAT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of SPAT in a Sentence

  1. John Driscoll:

    The Chinese may just replace some of the American oil with Iranian crude, china isn't intimidated by the threat of U.S. sanctions. They haven't been in the past. So in this diplomatic spat they might just replace U.S. crude with Iranian oil. That would obviously infuriate Trump.

  2. Ole Hansen:

    The U.S.-China trade spat seems to be hotting up again after yesterday's announcement from the White House, the global growth and demand outlook does not need a new political/financial crisis in Europe and a potential trade war between the world's two biggest economies.

  3. Nick Bisley:

    Until now it has been a diplomatic spat, we haven't seen it play out beyond the diplomatic and political realm, now it is imposing regulatory barriers without contravening the free trade agreement. We are going to see more of this and this will be the worst the relationship has been since diplomatic relations began.

  4. David Weinberg:

    The process that Secretary of State Kerry has been working very hard to put together was poised for failure before this Gulf spat, it is poised for failure after this Gulf spat.

  5. Daniel Wu:

    We're being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-level petty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted as easy targets, but at a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic has targeted us as being' the reason for coronavirus,' and so Asians across the board have been targeted by racial slurs, being attacked, being pushed around, being spat on.

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