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splay

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English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA /spleɪ/

Noun

splay noun

  1. 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.

Verb

splay verb

  1. To spread; spread out.
  2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
  3. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc.
  4. To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.

Adjective

splay adjective

  1. Spread out; turned outward.“to sit splay-legged”
  2. Flat and ungainly.“splay shoulders”

Word map

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Related terms

Synonyms

broadendisplayspreadspread outwidendislocateslantslopeturn outslipsplayfootedsplayfootexpandoutspreadspreddspradforspreadsprawl

Associated

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Rhymes

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