splay

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.

   “The Lydian maiden in her web did portray to her full / […] / Aſteriee ſtruggling with an Erne which did away hir beare, / And ouer Leda ſhe had made a Swan his wings to ſplay.”

2. fiil To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
3. fiil To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
4. fiil To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
5. fiil To unfurl or unroll (a banner or flag).

   “Ye grounde yow vpon Godfrey, that grysly gargons face, / Your stondarde, Syr Olifranke, agenst me for to splay: […]”

6. fiil To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
7. fiil To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.

   “"What a finger!" says Mrs. Ponto, and indeed it was a finger, as knotted as a turkey's drumstick, and splaying all over the piano. When she had banged out the tune slowly, she began a different manner of "Gettin' up Stairs," and did so with a fury and swiftness quite incredible.”

8. sıfat Oblique, slanted.
9. sıfat Turned outward; spread out.

   “to sit splay-legged”

10. sıfat Crooked, distorted, out of place.

    “splay shoulders”

11. zarf In an oblique or slanted manner; obliquely, slantedly.
12. zarf Of walking, etc.: with the feet turned outwards; in a splayfooted manner.
13. isim An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
14. isim A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an 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.

    “The daylight was so lowered by the impervious roof of cloud overhead that it scarcely reached further into Lord Mountclere's entrance-hall than to the splays of the windows, even but an hour or two after midday; […]”

15. isim The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
16. isim A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.

    “visibility splay”

17. isim The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
18. fiil Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).

    “Sovves alſo are ſplaied as vvell as camels, but tvvo daies before, they be kept from meat; then hang they them by the forelegs for to make inciſion into their matrice [womb], and to take forth their ſtones: and by this means they vvill ſooner grovv to be fat.”