splay
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
splay (splays, present participle splaying; past and past participle splayed)
- To spread; spread out.
- Synonyms: spread, spread out, broaden, widen, display
- our ensigns splayed
- To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
- Synonyms: dislocate
- To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window
etc. - Synonyms: slope, slant
- (comptheory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
- German: spreizen
- German: ausschrägen
- Russian: стерилизовывать
splay
- Spread out; turned outward.
- to sit splay-legged
- Flat and ungainly.
- splay shoulders
- Something splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
- Russian: расправленный
splay (plural splays)
- A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- German: Abkantung, Abschrägung
- Italian: strombatura
- Russian: отко́с
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