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
splat (plural splats)
The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
Onomatopoeia
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.
• (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.
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.
• -plast, plats, slapt, spalt
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine-free. Studies from the National Institute of Health (US) have shown that virtually all decaf coffee types contain caffeine. A 236-ml (8-oz) cup of decaf coffee contains up to 7 mg of caffeine, whereas a regular cup provided 70-140 mg.
