noun
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A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
verb
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To spread; spread out.
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To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
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To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc.
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To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
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To spay; to castrate.
adjective
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Spread out; turned outward.
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to sit splay-legged
definition
Flat and ungainly.
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splay shoulders
Examples of splay in a Sentence
They are relatively large dogs, with broad splay feet, and silky oily coats.
Main doorway has internal splay of dressed limestone rubble.
The conventional dome design has been given a wider splay making it extremely sturdy in high winds.
Another madonna, in the form of a relief, leans in a window splay between the two war memorials.
Cow hocks, weak pasterns, straight stifles, and splay feet are very bad faults.
The term is sometimes applied to the splaying of the edges of a window on the outside, but the wide expansion made inside in order to admit more light is known as a splay.
The layers of tightly packed petals make the half inch flowers splay out to resemble tiny ballerinas ' tutus.
I discovered them several years ago and have sadly watched their further decline as the roofs fall in and walls splay outwards.
Splay the game out on two screens, puff up the single player and sprinkle with a sweet pinch of free online play and you've got a mega hit for the DS.