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Meaning of 'splay' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Splay [ a.]
- Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
- A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
2 . Splay [ v. t.]
- To display; to spread.
- To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
- To spay; to castrate.
- To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.

Meaning of 'splay' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . splay [ v]
Meaning (1):
- turn outward
Example in sentence:
  • ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees;
  • These birds can splay out their toes
Meaning (2):
- move out of position
Example in sentence:
  • dislocate joints;
  • the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically
Meaning (3):
- spread open or apart
Example in sentence:
  • He splayed his huge hands over the table
4 . splay [ s]
Meaning (4):
- turned outward in an ungainly manner
Example in sentence:
  • splay knees

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