Splat

Quick meaning: Splat is a noun meaning The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

Meaning

The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

More Meanings

1. The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
2. The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
3. (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
4. (computing, slang) Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
5. (programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or .
6. (programming) An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
7. A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.

Example Sentences

The egg splatted onto the floor.

She splatted the roach with her shoe.

The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.

I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.

Word Forms

• splats
• splatting
• splatted

Synonyms for splat

Depending on context, synonyms include backsplat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splash, crush, slatback, spelk, splint, splent.

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