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单词 splay
释义
splaysplay /spleɪ/ (also splay out) verb [intransitive, transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsplay
Origin:
1300-1400 display
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
splay
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theysplay
he, she, itsplays
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theysplayed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave splayed
he, she, ithas splayed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad splayed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill splay
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have splayed
Continuous Form
PresentIam splaying
he, she, itis splaying
you, we, theyare splaying
PastI, he, she, itwas splaying
you, we, theywere splaying
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been splaying
he, she, ithas been splaying
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been splaying
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be splaying
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been splaying
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Cows with the disease foam at the mouth and their legs splay out.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Behind the Sergeant the Dragoons splayed left and right, but three other horses and four more men died.
  • Four made a phalanx before the booth, tapping their lead truncheons, their feet splayed like a squad of riot police.
  • He splayed into the air; over the water; one arm flung back over his head like a trapeze artist.
  • Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.
  • My hands are still splayed over my lower face.
  • She stood beside McAiister; her feet splayed as though barring the door.
  • Walking through the old foundations, you discover broken bits of dinner plates and an occasional fork with its tines splayed.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The dachshund had his feet splayed out on the sidewalk.· They flung themselves on him, yanked his legs back, crossing them so that his knees splayed out.· Arms and legs splayed out - for the pictures.· Inside, a huge leafless oak has been planted in a glass floor with the roots splayed out beneath your feet.· His fingers are splayed out so that he can feel the very pulse of hundreds of megabytes of information flowing into him.· But try sitting on them and they will end up flattened with four feet splayed out to all points of the compass.· Kali threw down her bunch of ragwort and it landed, splayed out limply, on the top.
NOUN
· Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.· Her legs splayed inelegantly and with her mouth wide and dry with fear, she stared up at the stranger.· Arms and legs splayed out - for the pictures.· In one shot the 27-year-old beauty sits wantonly on a jagged rock, her legs splayed.· He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair, his legs splayed out in front of him.
to spread apart widely, or to make things do this, especially parts of the body:  He sat with his legs splayed out in front of him.
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