splash-Splash: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is Splash?

  • To propel or scatter (a fluid) about in flying masses.
  • To scatter fluid onto in flying masses; wet, stain, or soil with flying fluid.
  • To cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses: splashed their hands in the water.
  • To make (one's way) with or by scattering of fluid.
  • To apply patches or spots of a contrasting, usually bright, color to: a floral pattern that was splashed with pink; moonlight splashing the deserted courtyard.
  • To display or publicize very noticeably: Their engagement was splashed all over the tabloids.
  • To cause a fluid to scatter in flying masses: splashed about in the swimming pool.
  • To fall into or move through fluid with this effect: We splashed through the waves.
  • To move, spill, or fly about in scattered masses: Whipped cream splashed onto the counter.
  • To produce a sound or sight associated with this effect.
  • The act or sound of splashing: went for a splash in the lake; heard the splash of the fish being thrown back.
  • A flying mass of fluid.
  • A small amount, especially of a fluid: a splash of liqueur on the cake.
  • A marking produced by or as if by scattered fluid: a splash of light.
  • A great though often short-lived impression; a stir: a publicity splash.
  • splash down To land in water. Used of a spacecraft or missile.

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