Splash

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Splash \Splash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Splashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Splashing}.] [Akin to plash.]
     1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
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     2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Splash \Splash\, v. i.
     To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a
     way as to spatter.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Splash \Splash\, n.
     1. Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown
        from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of
        matter which wets or disfigures.
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     2. A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  splash
       n 1: the sound like water splashing [syn: {plash}]
       2: a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of
          paint"; "a splatter of mud" [syn: {dab}, {splatter}]
       3: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn:
           {spatter}, {spattering}, {splashing}, {splattering}]
       4: the act of scattering water about haphazardly [syn: {splashing}]
       v 1: cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force;
            "She splashed the water around her" [syn: {sprinkle}, {splosh}]
       2: walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet
          meadow" [syn: {squelch}, {squish}, {splosh}, {slosh}, {slop}]
       3: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the
          baby's face with water" [syn: {spatter}, {splatter}, {plash},
           {splosh}, {swash}]
       4: mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or
          texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered; "The
          mountain was splashed with snow"
       5: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"
          [syn: {splosh}, {slosh}, {slush}]
       6: soil or stain with a splashed liquid
       7: strike and dash about in a liquid; "The boys splashed around
          in the pool"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  202 Moby Thesaurus words for "splash":
     ado, asperge, babble, bedabble, bedew, bespatter, bespeckle,
     bespot, besprinkle, birthmark, blaze, blazon, blemish, bloodstain,
     blot, blotch, blur, brand, bravura, brilliancy, brouhaha, bubble,
     burble, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, commotion, cut,
     cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, dab, dabble, damp, dampen,
     dapple, dappledness, dappleness, daring, dash, daub, dazzle,
     demonstration, dew, discoloration, display, dot, dottedness,
     douche, douse, dramatics, dramatize, drench, drown, earmark, eclat,
     engraving, etalage, excitement, exhibition, exhibitionism, eyesore,
     false front, fanfaronade, flaunt, flaunting, fleck, flick,
     flourish, flyspeck, foam, foofaraw, freckle, freckliness, froth,
     gash, glare, glitter, graving, guggle, gurgle, hack, histrionics,
     hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, impression, irrigate,
     jot, lap, lapping, lentigo, macula, maculate, maculation, macule,
     make a figure, make a show, make a splash, manifestation, mark,
     marking, moisten, mole, mottle, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch,
     paddle, pageant, pageantry, parade, patch, plash, plaster, play up,
     point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, prick, puncture, purl,
     ripple, ripple of applause, ripple of laughter, scar,
     scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sensation, sham,
     shine, show, shower, showing-off, slobber, slop, slosh, smear,
     smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soak, sop, sparge, spatter,
     speck, speckle, speckliness, spectacle, spindrift, splatter,
     splosh, splotch, splurge, sponge, spot, spottedness, spottiness,
     spray, spread, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, squirt, staginess, stain,
     stigma, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, swash,
     swish, syringe, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, theatrics,
     throw, tick, tittle, to-do, trill, uproar, vaunt, wash, washing,
     water, watermark, wet, wet down
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SPLash!
       
          1. Software Research Northwest, 1987.  Compiler for SPL[3].
       
          2. Systems Programming LAnguage for Software Hackers.
          Mentioned in TeX for the Impatient, Paul W. Abrahams, A-W
          1990.