Splat

Definition

splat /splæt / n ( infml ) ဖ်ပ္ခနဲျမည္သံ။ The tomato hit the wall with a splat. adv ဖ်ပ္ခနဲ(က်သြားသည္)။ The omelette fell splat onto the floor.

Examples

1. ‘In the other set
2. represented by the chair in Plate III
3. the splat is noticeably thinner and a simple half round decorates the base.’
4. ‘However
5. cutting away all the wood from the front edge of the splat to this line would have produced too sharp a chamfer.’
6. ‘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).’
7. ‘The set is represented by four side chairs and the splat of a fifth.’
8. ‘Also
9. 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.’
10. ‘An armchair with a splat of the same shape in the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover
11. has a history of having been purchased in 1768
12. which helps date the society's side chair.’
13. ‘Smooth
14. uncarved expanses - across the front seat rail
15. the ankles
16. and strapwork in the splat - punctuate the passages of carving and allow them to be seen as distinct themes.’
17. ‘The splat on the chair in Plate III is significantly thinner than the one on the chair in Plate II
18. and it is about three-quarters of an inch narrower across the cusps.’
19. ‘The cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet
20. shaped splats
21. and yoke-shape crests echo English designs
22. but the exuberance of the curvaceous outlines is definitely Mexican.’
23. ‘The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.’
24. ‘A chair's splat with its vertical grain shrinks from side to side
25. while the crest
26. with its horizontal grain
27. shrinks from top to bottom
28. causing a minor break in the flow of the design where they meet.’
29. ‘Then
30. tracing the unique collage
31. he made a pulp-paper multiple of the same subject
32. this demanding Wilfer's invention of the soldered grill
33. to accommodate the curvilinear shapes of the splats.’
34. ‘The Kings also purchased from Chapin a set of six side chairs with claw-and-ball feet and interlacing splats.’
35. ‘Their Gothic strap-work splats with quatrefoil cut-outs in the lower portion indicate their origin in Philadelphia
36. where this pattern was popular.’
37. ‘An overabundance of small
38. 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.’
39. ‘One of the distinctive characteristics of this chair is the splat.’
40. ‘Unlike the uniformity exhibited within each of the four other sets
41. the six side chairs in this set display a significant difference in the splat that separates them into two groups of three.’
42. ‘He landed with a painful splat belly down onto the water's surface.’
43. ‘And then there was a splat; the sound of someone undoubtedly dropping their cheese on toast on the carpet.’
44. ‘A deer in headlights
45. she turns… and unheeded
46. the kid sails right past her
47. hitting the dirt with a splat!’