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- Dictionarysplash/splaʃ/
noun
- 1. a sound made by something striking or falling into liquid: "we hit the water with a mighty splash" Similar
- 2. a prominent or sensational news feature or story: informal "a front-page splash" Similar
verb
- 1. cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops: "she splashed cold water on to her face" Similar
- 2. print (a story or photograph, especially a sensational one) in a prominent place in a newspaper or magazine: "the story was splashed across the front pages" Similar
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a small amount of a liquid that has fallen or been dropped: There were several splashes of white paint on the carpet. B2. the noise of something hitting or moving in water: We heard a splash and then saw that Toni had fallen in the river.
1. a. : to strike and dash about a liquid or semiliquid substance. b. : to move in or into a liquid or semiliquid substance and cause it to spatter. 2. a (1) : to become spattered about. (2) : to spread or scatter in the manner of splashed liquid. b. : to fall, strike, or move with a splashing sound. a brook splashing over rocks. transitive verb.
Splash definition: to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter. See examples of SPLASH used in a sentence.
A splash is a tiny amount of a liquid. You might, for example, prefer your coffee with just a splash of cream. A splash can be wet, like a splash of lemonade in your tea, or it can be bright, like a splash of yellow across the oil painting you're working on.
a. A flying mass of fluid. b. A small amount, especially of a fluid: a splash of liqueur on the cake. 3. A marking produced by or as if by scattered fluid: a splash of light.
If you splash about or splash around in water, you hit or disturb the water in a noisy way, causing some of it to fly up into the air.
the sound of something falling into or moving in water: They sat listening to the splash of raindrops on the lake. a splash of colour. a small area of colour that makes something look brighter: The flowers added a splash of colour to the room. Idioms. make a splash.
splash. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing splash1 /splæʃ/ W3 verb 1 [ intransitive] if a liquid splashes, it hits or falls on something and makes a noise splash against/on/over The ocean splashed against the pier. 2 [ transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make someone or ...
splash (something) across/over (something) : to put (something, such as a photograph or news headline) in a place or position where it will be easily seen by many people. The scandal was splashed across the front page. Her picture was splashed (all) over the news.
Definition of splash verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
