Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light splash.
- noun The sound of a light splash.
- intransitive verb To spatter (liquid) about; splash.
- intransitive verb To cause a light splash.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bend down and interweave the branches or twigs of: as, to
plash a hedge. - To bend down a branch.
- noun A branch of a tree partly cut or lopped, and then bent down and bound to other branches.
- noun A small collection of standing water; a puddle; a pool.
- noun A sudden downpour of water; a sudden dash or splash: as, a plash of rain.
- noun A flash; a spot (of light).
- noun A splash or splashing sound.
- To dabble in water; also, to fall with a dabbling sound; splash.
- To splash water or mud.
- To make a splashing noise in.
- To sprinkle with coloring matter so as to produce an imitation of granite: as, to
plash a wall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
- noun A dash of water; a splash.
- transitive verb To splash, as water.
- transitive verb To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter.
- noun The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
- transitive verb To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
- intransitive verb To dabble in water; to splash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialectal A small pool of standing water; a
puddle . - noun A
splash , or the sound made by a splash. - noun The
branch of atree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches. - verb intransitive To
splash . - verb transitive To cause a
splash .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dash a liquid upon or against
- noun the sound like water splashing
- verb interlace the shoots of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash' - Seamus Heaney words, interesting words.
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The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime.
The Mural II 2009
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The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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She collected water in a red plastic cup, then tilted the cup over her belly, letting the thin stream plash onto her skin where it split apart into rivulets that ran down the sides of her pregnant dome.
ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010
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The air smelled strong and alive, and she could hear the purl and plash of fountains, the ting of rain-chimes, and the deep peal of rain-drums.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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She collected water in a red plastic cup, then tilted the cup over her belly, letting the thin stream plash onto her skin where it split apart into rivulets that ran down the sides of her pregnant dome.
ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010
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It felt so much higher there, so much farther from the sparkle and plash of the waves.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
chained_bear commented on the word plash
Noun form is plashoot.
March 22, 2008