splat
IPA: spɫˈæt
noun
- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- 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 #
- (programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
- A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
- A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "splat" in Sentences
- Some fall back down and go splat.
- I say do not splat these things together.
- The central splat is in the shape of a lyre.
- It really needs to show that sPlat is notable.
- Ian acts as Lloyd's second in command in SPLAT.
- However, they merely splat uselessly against it.
- A splat is the vertical central element of a chair back.
- Multiple System Failure: denying death and how to 'splat'
- Ingrid is the youngest member of SPLAT but she's no pushover.
- There was a "splat" sound, and Gant poured out of the jumpcar.
- And what happened to your hitchhiking Mars probe can you say "splat"?
- The best defense is to listen for the splat and anticipate the ball action.
- A splat in a petri dish might look more clinical, but it'll still be a splat.
- Ya know how Frogger goes "splat" when he gets run over because you're a dolt and misjudged while playing the game?
- Apparently, Storm using lightning to "splat" someone isn't considered violent so long as she's not holding a howitzer.
- At any rate, The Grudge has atmosphere and shock-value oozing from every frame ... but you find yourself not caring who lives and dies (except for the detective and the smart woman -- who I genuinely hoped would not go "splat" in a choad-like fashion**).
- "A broadly played clown show full of lowbrow antics, Bong's big splat is itself a sort of monster," suggests J Hoberman in the Voice, "the top grossing movie in South Korean history — and, since it surfaced at Cannes last May, festival audiences having been slurping it down like ramen ....
- This is the last week of classes so I am ending with a bang, or rather a "splat" - the class concludes with a great egg toss (one student today managed to successfully catch a raw egg with her face, much to the enjoyment of her peers) and a brief letter (abridged below) I wrote to all my students, concerning what I have learned in China this past year: