splat

(Anglès)

Noun

The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
2. (transitive) To splatter.
3. (transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/splæt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: splatten

Cognat amb anglès: splat

In summary

From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).

Sinònims

splash

plop

slush