SPLAT

splat

(noun) a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair

splat

(noun) a single splash; “he heard a splat as it hit the floor”

splat

(verb) flatten on impact; “The snowballs splatted on the trees”

splat

(verb) split open and flatten for cooking; “splat fish over an open fire”

splat

(verb) give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

splat (plural splats)

The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia

Noun

splat (plural splats)

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

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

(computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.

(computing, slang) Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.

The asterisk *

The hash symbol #

A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.

Usage notes

• (computing, asterisk): Usage may be limited based on the function of the symbol in a particular context. In the Ruby programming language, for example, the asterisk is called a splat when used to construct or separate an array, but not when used as a multiplication operator.

Verb

splat (third-person singular simple present splats, present participle splatting, simple past and past participle splatted)

(intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.

(transitive) To splatter.

(computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.

Anagrams

• -plast, plats, slapt, spalt

Source: Wiktionary



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