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splay 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/splā/,
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splays, 3rd person singular present; splaying, present participle; splayed, past tense; splayed, past participle;
  1. Turned outward or widened
    • - the girls were sitting splay-legged
Verb
  1. Thrust or spread (things, esp. limbs or fingers) out and apart
    • - her hands were splayed across his broad shoulders
    • - he stood with his legs and arms splayed out
  2. (esp. of limbs or fingers) Be thrust or spread out and apart
    • - his legs splayed out in front of him
  3. (of a thing) Diverge in shape or position; become wider or more separated
    • - the river splayed out, deepening to become an estuary
  4. Construct (a window, doorway, or aperture) so that it diverges or is wider at one side of the wall than the other
    • - the walls are pierced by splayed window openings
Noun
  1. A widening or outward tapering of something, in particular

  2. A tapered widening of a road at an intersection to increase visibility

  3. A splayed window aperture or other opening

  4. A surface making an oblique angle with another, such as the splayed side of a window or embrasure

  5. The degree of bevel or slant of a surface

  1. an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
  2. spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table"
  3. turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees"
  4. turn out: turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
  5. dislocate: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
  6. Splay is the first full-length album by Shiner. It was released in January 1996.
  7. The talus is an architectural feature of some late medieval castles, especially prevalent in crusader constructions. It consists of a sloping face at the base of a fortified wall. The slope acts as an effective defensive measure in two ways. ...
  8. Splay stylized as SPLAY, was a J-Rock band from Osaka, Japan, belonging to the label Pony Canyon. Two of their recognizable songs are the first opening, "Drawing Days" and the third ending, "Echo again", both theme songs for Katekyō Hitman Reborn!, a popular anime television series. ...
  9. Splay is a physiological term that refers to the difference between urine threshold (the amount of a substance required in the kidneys before it appears in the urine) and saturation, or TM; in this instance, saturation refers to an exhausted supply of renal reabsorption carriers. ...
  10. Splay is a term used with injection molded plastics to refer to off-colored streaking that occurs when moisture is caught in the material feed, or if the material degrades during processing. ...
  11. (Splaying) A splay tree is a self-adjusting binary search tree with the additional property that recently accessed elements are quick to access again. It performs basic operations such as insertion, look-up and removal in O(log n) amortized time. ...
  12. 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; To display; to spread; To dislocate, as a shoulder bone; To spay; to castrate; To turn on one side ...
  13. (SPLAYED (SPRADDLED LEGGED)) A condition where the rabbit cannot hold the front or back legs under the body. The legs spread out from the body.
  14. (Splayed) Slanted or bevelled, as of the side of a doorway, window or other similar architectural feature.
  15. (Splaying) A physical attribute to an environment where the walls are purposefully constructed off square. This is done to imperfect the flow of returning sound waves. Another method used for reducing echoes.
  16. (Splaying) Walls are splayed when they are constructed somewhat "off square," i.e., a few degrees from the normal rectilinear form.
  17. A shiny area on the surface that is usually small in size and may have the appearance of a lightly tinted or silver streaks.
  18. A small deltaic deposit formed on a floodplain where water and sediment are diverted from the main stream through a crevasse in a levee.
  19. Refers to a style of showerscreen. Based on a two sided screen - panels at right angles - with a third panel, usually the door, cut across the corner.
  20. Top finish piece used in conjunction with a cove moulding to transition from a vertical to a horizontal surface. Typically used in mud installations. (See Moulding)
  21. Term used to describe the angle of chair parts (usually legs or spindles) to either side of a chair, as seen from a front or rear view. Often specified in degrees more or less than perpendicular.
  22. A slope across the full width of a surface, often at 45 degrees; a large chamfer (c/f  canted).
  23. Splay is a defect similar to blisters that is caused by escaping gas or water and which affects the surface of the finished parts. Generally this is caused by an improperly vented tool, use of material that has not been dried sufficiently, poor gating, or operating in overly humid conditions.
  24. (1) To form with an oblique angle, or to bevel. (2) To spread out or extend.
  25. This type of natal chart is noteworthy because of the presence of at least two, but usually three pairs (or conjunctions) of planets randomly distributed in a 'splay' shape around the chart. ...