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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Splash \Splash\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Splashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Splashing}.] [Akin to plash.]
1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Splash \Splash\, verb (used without an object) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Splash \Splash\, noun
1. Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
2. A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
splash
noun
1: the sound like water splashing [syn: {plash}]
2: a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud" [syn: {dab}, {splatter}]
3: the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface [syn: {spatter}, {spattering}, {splashing}, {splattering}]
4: the act of scattering water about haphazardly [syn: {splashing}]
verb
1: cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; "She splashed the water around her" [syn: {sprinkle}, {splosh}]
2: walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: {squelch}, {squish}, {splosh}, {slosh}, {slop}]
3: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: {spatter}, {splatter}, {plash}, {splosh}, {swash}]
4: mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered; "The mountain was splashed with snow"
5: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor" [syn: {splosh}, {slosh}, {slush}]
6: soil or stain with a splashed liquid
7: strike and dash about in a liquid; "The boys splashed around in the pool"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "splash": ado, asperge, babble, bedabble, bedew, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, besprinkle, birthmark, blaze, blazon, blemish, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bravura, brilliancy, brouhaha, bubble, burble, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, commotion, cut, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, dab, dabble, damp, dampen, dapple, dappledness, dappleness, daring, dash, daub, dazzle, demonstration, dew, discoloration, display, dot, dottedness, douche, douse, dramatics, dramatize, drench, drown, earmark, eclat, engraving, etalage, excitement, exhibition, exhibitionism, eyesore, false front, fanfaronade, flaunt, flaunting, fleck, flick, flourish, flyspeck, foam, foofaraw, freckle, freckliness, froth, gash, glare, glitter, graving, guggle, gurgle, hack, histrionics, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, impression, irrigate, jot, lap, lapping, lentigo, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, make a figure, make a show, make a splash, manifestation, mark, marking, moisten, mole, mottle, mottledness, nevus, nick, notch, paddle, pageant, pageantry, parade, patch, plash, plaster, play up, point, pointillage, pointillism, polka dot, prick, puncture, purl, ripple, ripple of applause, ripple of laughter, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, sensation, sham, shine, show, shower, showing-off, slobber, slop, slosh, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soak, sop, sparge, spatter, speck, speckle, speckliness, spectacle, spindrift, splatter, splosh, splotch, splurge, sponge, spot, spottedness, spottiness, spray, spread, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, squirt, staginess, stain, stigma, stipple, stippledness, stippling, strawberry mark, swash, swish, syringe, taint, tarnish, tattoo, tattoo mark, theatrics, throw, tick, tittle, to-do, trill, uproar, vaunt, wash, washing, water, watermark, wet, wet down
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SPLash!
1. Software Research Northwest, 1987. Compiler for SPL[3]. 2. Systems Programming LAnguage for Software Hackers. Mentioned in TeX for the Impatient, Paul W. Abrahams, A-W 1990.
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