splay

English

Etymology

From Middle English, an abbreviated form of display.

Pronunciation

• enPR: splā, IPA: /spleɪ/, X-SAMPA: /spleI/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Verb

splay (third-person singular simple present splays, present participle splaying, simple past and past participle splayed)

1. To display; to spread.
2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
3. To spay; to castrate.
4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Translations

To display; to spread

To dislocate, as a shoulder bone

• Russian: вывихивать (ru) (vyvixivatʹ)

To spay; to castrate

• Russian: стерилизовывать (ru) (sterilizovyvatʹ)

To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Adjective

splay (comparative more splay, superlative most splay)

1. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
   • M. Arnold

     Something splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.

Translations

Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders

• Russian: расправленный (ru) (raspravlennyj)

Noun

splay (plural splays)

1. 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.

Translations

A slope or bevel

• Italian: strombatura (it) f

• Russian: откос (ru) m (otkos)

Anagrams

• palsy
• plays