splay
IPA: spɫeɪ
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.
verb
- To spread; spread out.
- To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
- To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
- (computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
adjective
- Spread out; turned outward.
- Flat and ungainly.
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Examples of "splay" in Sentences
- First, we search x in the splay tree.
- At the summit is a splay spire with lucarnes.
- Splay node 'x', sending it to the root of the tree.
- Then we splay the new node x to the top of the tree.
- Then we splay the new node 'x' to the top of the tree.
- Splay foot spires are similar but not exactly the same.
- The heels of the spars are secured by splay and heel tackles.
- The tower is in two stages with a splay footed octagonal spire.
- First of all, the splay operation need to be in a critical section.
- Right before they hit, they kind of splay out into this starburst pattern.
- ( "splay" them out, side to side, then shape them up and down after that).
- A fireplace in the wing heated the hall, with its splayed window embrasure.
- They have relatively stiff steel nibs, which are harder to "splay", and well-designed grips.
- In the midst were the deep impressions of the splay-hoofed game, and all about, everywhere, were the lighter footmarks of the wolves.
- Put it on in the background as you work or play, drink or splay, and watch as it works like confident fingers deep into your pleasure center.
- Magazine, _ classed _nominatim_ by an emphatic earnest man, not without a kind of splay-footed strength and sincerity, -- among the chief Heresiarchs of the -- world?
- Had you the happiness to see yourself not long ago, in Fraser's Magazine, classed nominatim by an emphatic earnest man, not without a kind of splay-footed strength and sincerity, ” among the chief Heresiarchs of the ” world?
- Eddie Bernard, director of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, says one possibility is that the earthquake might not have been confined to the main fault, with additional seabed shaking coming from a 'splay' fault.