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单词 splay
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splay

(spleɪ)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense splays, present participle splaying, past tense, past participle splayed
verb
If things splay or are splayed, their ends are spread out away from each other.
He splayed his fingers across his face. [VERB noun]
His fingers splay out in a star shape. [VERB adverb/preposition]
He was on his stomach, his legs splayed apart. [VERB-ed]

splay in British English

(spleɪ)
adjective
1. 
spread out; broad and flat
2. 
turned outwards in an awkward manner
verb
3. 
to spread out; turn out or expand
4. (transitive) veterinary science
to dislocate (a joint)
noun
5. 
a surface of a wall that forms an oblique angle to the main flat surfaces, esp at a doorway or window opening
6. 
enlargement
Word origin
C14: short for display

splay in American English

(spleɪ)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
1. 
to spread out or apart; expand; extend
often with out
2. 
to make or be beveled or sloping
noun
3. 
a sloping or beveled surface or angle, as of the side of a doorway
4. 
a spreading; expansion; enlargement
adjective
5. 
sloping, spreading, or turning outward
6. 
broad and flat
7. 
awkwardly awry
Word origin
ME splaien, aphetic < displaien, to display

Examples of 'splay' in a sentence
splay

He thought it was a bag of rubbish until he noticed a pair of legs splayed out.
The Sun (2010)
I was down on my knee with the lower leg splayed out to the right.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They are usually plugged into iPods with their legs splayed to carve out maximum territory and annoy the person in the next seat.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Lay the fish on the board, cut side down, with the belly splayed open.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A lot of hen breeders put chicks down if they have splayed legs, but she is way too cute for that.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There will be many more of them in the days to come, as the Libyan regime is splayed open.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Hold your head upside down and, with your fingers splayed, lift your hair and blast with the hairdryer.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Very rapidly, she jabbed a knife between the splayed fingers of her hand, making an irregular tattoo of drumming interspersed with gasps of pain.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

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