splat

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Synoniemen

splash

plop

slush

Vertalingen

الضّجّة

πλατύ τεμάχιον σανίδος

aplastar

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/splæt/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: splatten

Verwant aan Engels: 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”).