splay in English

adjective
1
turned outward or widened.
the girls were sitting splay-legged
noun
1
a widening or outward tapering of something, in particular.
Also, it is well known that spontaneous curvature is a critical determinant of splay, and in turn splay is a controlling membrane deformation of several membrane processes, such as membrane fusion.
verb
1
thrust or spread (things, especially limbs or fingers) out and apart.
her hands were splayed across his broad shoulders

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1. He has splay feet.

2. Eliminate custom metal ceiling splay at curtain wall and replace with fibreglass reinforced gypsum splay units;

3. The most significant disadvantage of splay trees is that the height of a splay tree can be linear.

4. These birds can splay out their toes.

5. The petals splay out from the middle of the flower.

6. His fingers splay out in a star shape.

7. Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed.

8. Cowhocks, weak pasterns, straight stifles and splay feet are very bad faults.

9. Cows with the disease foam at the mouth and their legs splay out.

10. ... imagine that my face is the camera and I would like you to splay your legs before the camera, my face.

11. This is a very convenient system and there not wires to break or terminals to splay.

12. A virgin splay of grass traumatized by five months of snow sloped gently down to the water.

13. The upper member of Guantao Formation consists mainly channel bar, point bar, arrested deposits on valley floor, natural levee, crevasse splay, alluvial lake and alluvial flat microfacies.

14. When Edmontosaurus chomped down, its top teeth would splay outward, sliding across the bottom teeth and grinding up its leafy meals, suggests a new study.

15. Simplified Model Anastomosed fluvial systems have facies associations similar to those of meandering systems (active channel, abandoned channel, overbank, splay) but in different proportions and with different geometries

16. The major sandstone bodies are interpreted as channels, associated with lenticular levee, crevasse-splay, or mouth-bar deposits of a semi-arid alluvial plain on which anastomosing channels dominated.

17. Light is not only let in through the "eye" in the front but also by a number of splay windows opening in the lateral walls and rising above the apses.

18. Everyone feels like they’re dirty and wrong, due to a mixture of ignorance and fear, and even the Barniest of hodads splay-legged paddling towards the shoulder before ditching his board mid-face feels justified in looking down his nose at devotees

19. When the sealing cap (1) is pressed on to the closure, the two splayed struts (12) are pushed into an essentially extended position and thus cause the two anchoring flaps (9) to splay outwards, teeth (11) on the flaps thus engaging in grooves (6) on the inside surface of the threaded portion (2) of the closure.

20. The composition for an alignment film that is used for splay alignment includes polyvinyl alcohol (PVA); 13 to 25 % by weight of an aery late monomer based on the weight of the polyvinyl alcohol; 20 to 30 % by weight of a compatibilizing agent based on the weight of the acrylate monomer; and 10 to 50 % by weight of an aqueous photo initiator based on the weight of the acrylate monomer.