splat
/splat/
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American sound/splat/
splat
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Myanmar meaning
စူးရှသည့် ဖိတ်စဉ်သော အသံ။ ဖိတ်စင်သံနှင့် အတူ။ ဖိတ်စင်သံနှင့်အတူ လဲကျသည် ၊ ထိုးနှက်သည်။
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- ‘In the other set, represented by the chair in Plate III, the splat is noticeably thinner and a simple half round decorates the base.’
- ‘However, cutting away all the wood from the front edge of the splat to this line would have produced too sharp a chamfer.’
- ‘Almost all chairs with splats of this strapwork design have a deep quarter-round molding above a fillet (although some nonurban examples have no cut molding).’
- ‘The set is represented by four side chairs and the splat of a fifth.’
- ‘Also, the maker was content to use the same splat template for both the side chairs and the larger armchair producing a somewhat crowded effect in the backs of the side chairs.’
- ‘An armchair with a splat of the same shape in the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, has a history of having been purchased in 1768, which helps date the society's side chair.’
- ‘Smooth, uncarved expanses - across the front seat rail, the ankles, and strapwork in the splat - punctuate the passages of carving and allow them to be seen as distinct themes.’
- ‘The splat on the chair in Plate III is significantly thinner than the one on the chair in Plate II, and it is about three-quarters of an inch narrower across the cusps.’
- ‘The cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, shaped splats, and yoke-shape crests echo English designs, but the exuberance of the curvaceous outlines is definitely Mexican.’
- ‘The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.’
- ‘A chair's splat with its vertical grain shrinks from side to side, while the crest, with its horizontal grain, shrinks from top to bottom, causing a minor break in the flow of the design where they meet.’
- ‘Then, tracing the unique collage, he made a pulp-paper multiple of the same subject, this demanding Wilfer's invention of the soldered grill, to accommodate the curvilinear shapes of the splats.’
- ‘The Kings also purchased from Chapin a set of six side chairs with claw-and-ball feet and interlacing splats.’
- ‘Their Gothic strap-work splats with quatrefoil cut-outs in the lower portion indicate their origin in Philadelphia, where this pattern was popular.’
- ‘An overabundance of small, wormlike volutes worked into the beaded outlines of the splat and crest rails of the Corbit chairs suggest a tentative link to another chair with a Delaware history of ownership.’
- ‘One of the distinctive characteristics of this chair is the splat.’
- ‘Unlike the uniformity exhibited within each of the four other sets, the six side chairs in this set display a significant difference in the splat that separates them into two groups of three.’
- ‘He landed with a painful splat belly down onto the water's surface.’
- ‘And then there was a splat; the sound of someone undoubtedly dropping their cheese on toast on the carpet.’
- ‘A deer in headlights, she turns… and unheeded, the kid sails right past her, hitting the dirt with a splat!’
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