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What does splay mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: splays |
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| splay - an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger | ||
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| splay - spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table" | ||
| unfold, spread out, spread, open spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms" | ||
| splay - move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" | ||
| dislocate, luxate, slip | ||
| displace, move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" | ||
| splay - turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" | ||
| turn out, spread out, rotate | ||
| turn pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" | ||
Adjectivesplay, splaier, splaiest |
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| splay - turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- splay (Noun)
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. - splay (Verb)
To display; to spread. - splay (Verb)
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. - splay (Verb)
To spay; to castrate. - splay (Verb)
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. - splay (Adjective)
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- splay (v. t.)
To display; to spread. - splay (v. t.)
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. - splay (v. t.)
To spay; to castrate. - splay (v. t.)
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. - splay (a.)
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. - splay (a.)
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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splay
splā, v.t. (archit.) to slope or slant: to dislocate, as the shoulder-bone.—adj. turned outward, as in splay-foot, awkward.—n. Splay′-foot, a flat foot turned outward.—adj. Splay′-footed.—n. Splay′-mouth, a wide mouth, a mouth stretched out in grinning.—adj. Splay′-mouthed. [Display.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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splay
The divergence outwards from the line of fire of the lines which mark the bottom of the sides of an embrasure.
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