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  • noun Plural form of splat.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of splat.

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Examples

  • One of the statistics kept was "splats," when the fish hit the ground.

    THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS blacktygrrrr 2010

  • One of the statistics kept was "splats," when the fish hit the ground.

    THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS blacktygrrrr 2010

  • One of the statistics kept was "splats," when the fish hit the ground.

    THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS blacktygrrrr 2010

  • One of the statistics kept was "splats," when the fish hit the ground.

    THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS blacktygrrrr 2010

  • One of the statistics kept was "splats," when the fish hit the ground.

    THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS blacktygrrrr 2010

  • John Robinson, coatings technology leader at Victrex, said: 'A stream of Vicote powder coating passes through the gun and is heated to a temperature where the powder melts and is deposited at high velocity as "splats" on the surface of the substrate.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2009

  • To produce the emerging image, they have developed an algorithm that identifies key features within an original image and converts them into an array of ink blots or "splats".

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

  • Underneath the Bourbon-Street-meets-bunraku jambalaya, some of the original play — in an excellent translation by Shakespeare specialist Jean-Michel D é splats — shines through, particularly in scenes between Blanche and her rough-edged here heavily tattooed gentleman caller Mitch.

    French 'Streetcar' Takes a Detour Via Japan Judy Fayard 2011

  • Up high on the beach were Manila clams -- with   their   built-in Asian-restaurant market, still the cash cow of the South Sound -- while a series of what looked like kiddie pools nearer the waterline held geoducks, giant clams whose space-alienish, three-foot-long siphons sent up eccentric splats of seawater.

    The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010

  • I pulled up to the wall in Newark and threw the stern line to a man who happened to be standing there, willing to help, just as big splats of rain hit my boat.

    A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal 2009

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