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View synonyms for splay
splay
[ spley ]
verb (used with object)
- to spread out, expand, or extend.
- to form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel.
- to make with a splay or splays.
- to disjoin; dislocate.
verb (used without object)
- to have an oblique or slanting direction.
- to spread or flare.
noun
- Architecture. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from the window or door proper toward the face of the wall.
adjective
- spread out; wide and flat; turned outward.
- clumsy or awkward.
- oblique or awry.
splay
/ spleɪ /
adjective
- spread out; broad and flat
- turned outwards in an awkward manner
verb
- to spread out; turn out or expand
- tr vet science to dislocate (a joint)
noun
- a surface of a wall that forms an oblique angle to the main flat surfaces, esp at a doorway or window opening
- enlargement
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- un·splayed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of splay1
C14: short for display
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Example Sentences
They are cut on the splay so that the front end is half the width of a header and one side half the length of the brick.
From Project Gutenberg
No variation, no change; the art of it is to keep almost to the same groove, and not to make the figure broad and splay.
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The centre porch has twisted columns, which are carried round the splay of the arch.
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Such a collection of splay feet, puffed joints, and misshapen limbs was assuredly never before made within so small a compass.
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They are boldly splayed off, and in the middle of the splay is set a shaft, which finishes with a sculptured capital.
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