'Splay' definitions:
Definition of 'splay'
From: WordNet
adjective
Turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees"
noun
An outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
verb
Spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table"
verb
Turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" [syn: turn out, splay, spread out, rotate]
verb
Definition of 'Splay'
From: GCIDE
- Splay \Splay\, v. t. [Abbrev. of display.]
- 1. To display; to spread. [Obs.] "Our ensigns splayed." --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To spay; to castrate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. --Oxf. Gloss. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Splay'
From: GCIDE
- Splay \Splay\, a. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders. [1913 Webster]
- Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Splay'
From: GCIDE
- Splay \Splay\, a. (Arch.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'splay'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrate,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- aggrandizement,
- ampliation,
- amplification,
- attenuation,
- augmentation,
- awkward,
- bestrew,
- branch,
- branch out,
- broadcast,
- broadcasting,
- broadening,
- circumfuse,
- circumfusion,
- crescendo,
- deal out,
- deltoid,
- deploy,
- deployment,
- diffract,
- diffraction,
- diffuse,
- diffusion,
- dilution,
- dispensation,
- dispense,
- dispersal,
- disperse,
- dispersion,
- dispread,
- disseminate,
- dissemination,
- dissipation,
- distribute,
- distribution,
- divaricate,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- divide,
- enlargement,
- evaporation,
- expand,
- expansion,
- extend,
- extension,
- fan,
- fan out,
- fan-shape,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fanned,
- fanning,
- fanning out,
- flabelliform,
- flare,
- flared,
- flaring,
- fragmentation,
- gawky,
- go away,
- go off,
- hiking,
- increase,
- issue,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- magnification,
- open,
- open up,
- outspread,
- outstretch,
- outstretched,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- overscatter,
- oversow,
- overspread,
- patulous,
- peppering,
- propagate,
- propagation,
- publication,
- publish,
- radiate,
- radiation,
- raising,
- ramify,
- retail,
- scatter,
- scattering,
- scatterment,
- separate,
- shotgun pattern,
- sow,
- sow broadcast,
- sowing,
- spattering,
- splayed,
- splaying,
- spraddle,
- spraddled,
- spraddling,
- sprangle,
- sprangled,
- sprangling,
- sprawl,
- sprawling,
- sprawly,
- spread,
- spread like wildfire,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- sprinkling,
- stretched-out,
- strew,
- strewing,
- unfold,
- unfolded,
- ungainly,
- upping,
- utter,
- volatilization,
- wide-open,
- widen,
- widening,
- widespread