splat

n.
A slat of wood, as one in the middle of a chair back.

[Perhaps from Middle English splatten, to split open, perhaps from Medieval Latin splattāre, of Low German origin.]

splat² (splăt)
n.
A smacking or splashing noise.

adv.
With a smacking or splashing noise: landed splat on the floor.

[Imitative.]

1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the ‘squashed-bug’ appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers.

2. [MIT] Name used by some people for the # character (ASCII 0100011).

3. The feature key on a Mac (same as alt, sense 2).

4. obs. Name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII ⊗ character. This character is also called blobby and frob, among other names; it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation for tensor product.

5. obs. Name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII ⊕ character. See also ASCII.

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A strip which covers the joints between adjacent sheets of building board.

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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a single splash

Meaning #2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair

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The verb splat has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact

Meaning #2: split open and flatten for cooking, as of fish over an open fire

Meaning #3: flatten on impact

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - lodret træstykke i stoleryg

2.
n. - splat, plask
adv. - splat, plaske
v. tr. - splatte, plaske

Nederlands (Dutch)
spetter (klank), lat in een rugleuning

Français (French)
1.
n. - lamelle de bois (dossier de chaise)

2.
n. - splash
adv. - avec un splash
v. tr. - faire un splash

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Mittelstück der Stuhllehne

2.
n. - Aufklatschen
adv. - mit einem Aufklatschgeräusch
v. - aufklatschen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σανιδάκι (πλάτης καθίσματος), δοκαράκι, θόρυβος από πέσιμο
adv. - με ένα παφ (θόρυβο από πέσιμο)
v. - πέφτω με θόρυβο

Italiano (Italian)
spiaccichio, in uno spiaccico, spiaccicare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pingo (m)
adv. - pouco a pouco
v. - pingar

Русский (Russian)
нащельная рейка, плоская доска в середине спинки стула, звук всплеска

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - listón de respaldo (de una silla)

2.
n. - ruido sordo
adv. - con ruido sordo
v. tr. - chapotear

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - horisontell träbit i möbel
adv. - pladask
v. - ramla pladask

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 泼溅声

2. 长条木板

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 長條木板
adv. - 長條木板

2.
n. - 潑濺聲

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - (의자의 등받이 가운데에 댄) 세로 널

2.
n. - 철썩 소리
adv. - 자유롭게 돈을 쓰다
v. tr. - 자유롭게 돈을 쓰다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 縦長の平板, ピシャッ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صوت ارتطام شىء مبلل بسطح ما (ظرف) بصوت ارتطام (فعل) يرتطم محدثا هذا الصوت‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮לוח-מסעד (באמצע המשענת של כסא)‬
n. - ‮רעש פגיעת משהו כבד ורטוב בפני השטח, "טראח!"‬
adv. - ‮עם רעש מסוג זה‬
v. tr. - ‮נפל או היכה עם רעש מסוג זה‬

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splat	splish splat