Lexic.us

Definition of Splat

1. Verb. Give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact.

2. Noun. A single splash. "He heard a splat as it hit the floor"

3. Verb. Split open and flatten for cooking. "Splat fish over an open fire"

4. Noun. A slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair.

5. Verb. Flatten on impact. "The snowballs splatted on the trees"

Definition of Splat

1. Noun. The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface. ¹

2. Noun. The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface. ¹

3. Noun. The ''cmd'' key on an Apple Macintosh. ¹

4. Noun. Various characters appearing in computer character sets, particularly # and *. ¹

5. Noun. The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. ¹

6. Verb. To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Splat

1. to flatten on impact [v SPLATTED, SPLATTING, SPLATS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Splat

splashed splasher splashers splashes splashier splashiest splashily splashiness splashinesses splashing

splashings splashout splashproof splasht splashy splat (current term) splat book splat books splat mat splat mats

splatbook splatbooks splatch splatched splatches splats splatted splatter splatterday splattered

Literary usage of Splat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1901)
"There are slight curves in the back, and the splat is un- pierced ... By 1730, the solid splat has entirely gone out of fashion : it is now sometimes carved ..."

2. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1900)
"Here DUTCH CHAIRS Owned by the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. we have the jar-shaped splat, embowed top-rail, and cabriole leg ending in ..."

3. Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture by Arthur Hayden, Hugh Phillips (1912)
"... Jacobean and William and Mary forms—Farmhouse styles contemporary with the cane-back chair—The Queen Anne splat—Country Chippendale, Hepplewhite, ..."

4. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"The splat has a suggestion of the Gothic, and the chair, though plain, ... Figure 562 shows a chair having the splat composed of three concave curves in the ..."

5. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"On the top rail are carved five medallions, each containing a spray of flowers; the splat is cut away in a form suggestive of the later style and carved in ..."

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