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splash | American Dictionary

splash
verb[ I/T ]
us/splæʃ/

splashverb[I/T] (HIT WITH LIQUID)

to scatter liquid or to cause liquid to scatter through the air or onto something:
[ T ]She splashed her face with cold water.
[ I ]Kids love to splash around in mud puddles.
splash
noun[ C ]
us/splæʃ/

splashnoun[C] (AREA OF BRIGHTNESS)

a bright area of color or light:
a splash of sunlight
The child’s red dress brought a splash of color to the picture.

splashnoun[C] (SCATTERED LIQUID)

an amount of liquid scattered, or the sound made by liquid being scattered:
I wiped up the splashes from the floor.
Jimmy jumped into the pool with a splash.

Examples of splash

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There are sudden splashes of colour amid day-to-day business, but references to music or liturgy are frustratingly few and far between.
At their foot is found a natural spring splashing from the rockface; its sacred role is quietly stated by a sheltering canopy.
Presumably, as the containers were broken, the liquid splashed out, filling the lower levels of the cross-shaped pit.
The potential hazards associated with the use of the substitute chemical include acute irritation and burns from accidental exposure due to spills or splashes.
The screen at the base of the hemisphere was used to control splashing during fabrication.
Lamps positioned below the transparent tanks illuminate patterns on the surface of the water as it ripples and splashes.
You can't go round splashing paint on the walls, things like that really.
I shall advise my librarian that there is little to be gained by splashing out on the third edition.
He is in the bathroom as the scene opens, splashing water on his face.
On the empty platform, costumes were individual splashes of colour and the composite picture was always vivid and could be splendid.
Who hasn't seen images of gang-related violence splashed all over the evening news?
Both tasks are uncontrolled manual processes and there is the potential for skin exposure from splashes and sprays and inhalation exposure due to vaporization of bulk chemical from open containers.
Footsteps, engines, birds, animals and splashing rain are but a few categories of natural sound sources that each have their own set of behavioural and synthesis modelling complexities.
There have been no big media splashes, no major festivals of his music - in any case, these would be quite out of keeping with its self-effacing nature.
The velocity after the splash is controlled by the radial laser intensity profile (see).
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