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How to pronounce splay in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dislocate, luxate, slip
Type of displace, move
Type Words
Synonyms rotate, spread out, turn out
Type of turn


These birds can splay out their toes.
Type Words
Type of cant, bevel, chamfer
Type Words
Type of spread, open, spread out, unfold


He splayed his huge hands over the table.
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splay knees.

Examples of splay

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Simmer the wild rice for 40 to 50 minutes, until the grains have begun to splay.
From the nytimes.com
Place heels together and splay the feet until they point in opposite directions.
From the time.com
Steep sea-floor topography and numerous slumps above the splay fault are shown.
From the sciencedaily.com
Back in her bathroom, Angela turns to splay her fingers under the hand sanitizer.
From the time.com
How about two-feet tall signage letters to splay across your living room wall?
From the guardian.co.uk
I was able to sit back there, though I had to splay my legs to make them fit.
From the washingtonpost.com
This complicates the use of such splay trees in a multi-threaded environment.
From the en.wikipedia.org
After this second set of collisions the splay pattern emerges as shown below.
From the wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com
Sen. Barack Obama has permitted his legs to splay, and his neck is tilted.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • An outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
  • Spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table"
  • Turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees"
  • Turn out: turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
  • Dislocate: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
  • Splay is the first full-length album by Shiner. It was released in January 1996.
  • The talus is an architectural feature of some late medieval castles, especially prevalent in crusader constructions. It consists of a sloping face at the base of a fortified wall. The slope acts as an effective defensive measure in two ways. ...
  • Splay is a physiological term that refers to the difference between urine threshold (the amount of a substance required in the kidneys before it appears in the urine) and saturation, or TM; in this instance, saturation refers to an exhausted supply of renal reabsorption carriers. ...
  • Splay is a term used with injection molded plastics to refer to off-colored streaking that occurs when moisture is caught in the material feed, or if the material degrades during processing. ...