What is the difference between plash and splash?
plash | splash |
(UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
* Isaac Barrow
A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
* Henry James, The Aspern Papers
To splash.
* Keats
* Longfellow
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To cause a splash.
To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
* to plash a hedge
(onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
A small amount of liquid.
A small amount (of color).
A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
An impact or impression.
splash screen
* 2008 , Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005
To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
* 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.
To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
to hit or expel liquid at
To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
To spend (money)
To launch a ship.
* 1999 David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea"'', Atlantic Monthly, March 1999:
Splash is a synonym of plash.
In transitive terms the difference between plash and splash
is that plash is to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of while splash is to spend (money.As nouns the difference between plash and splash
is that plash is a small pool of standing water; a puddle while splash is the sound made by an object hitting a liquid.As verbs the difference between plash and splash
is that plash is to splash while splash is to hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.plash
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(plashes)- Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
- (Francis Bacon)
- These shallow plashes .
- Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.
Verb
- plashing among bedded pebbles
- Far below him plashed the waters.
- to plash a wall in imitation of granite
Etymology 2
(etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.Noun
(plashes)Verb
- (Evelyn)
Anagrams
*splash
English
Noun
(es)- I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
- Add the tomato purée and cook for a further 4-5 minutes. Add a splash of whisky to the pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze. -
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- I felt a splash of rain so put up my hood.
- I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.
- The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
- There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
- The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
- When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.
Synonyms
* plashVerb
(es)- sit and splash in the bathtub
- I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest
- water splashed everywhere
- The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.
- When she comes in the door, splash her with perfume.
- The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
- After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
- In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.