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1. (v.t.) splay
to spread out, expand, or extend.
2. splay
to form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel.
3. splay
to disjoin; dislocate.
4. (v.i.) splay
to have an oblique or slanting direction.
5. splay
to spread or flare.
6. (n.) splay
a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from one side to the other.
7. (adj.) splay
spread out; wide and flat; turned outward.
8. splay
oblique or awry.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME; aph. form of display)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) splay
an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
2. (verb) splay
turned outward in an ungainly manner
"splay knees"
3. (verb) splay
spread open or apart
"He splayed his huge hands over the table"
4. (verb) turn out, splay, spread out, rotate
turn outward
"These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
5. (verb) dislocate, luxate, splay, slip
move out of position
"dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) splay
displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders
2. (adj) splay
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
3. (verb) splay
to display; to spread
4. (verb) splay
to dislocate, as a shoulder bone
5. (verb) splay
to spay; to castrate
6. (verb) splay
to turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc
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