Splay vs Chamfer - What's the difference?
splay | chamfer |
To display; to spread.
* Gascoigne
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
* M. Arnold
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
(woodworking, engineering, drafting, CAD) an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges
to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel
to cut a groove in something; to flute
As verbs the difference between splay and chamfer
is that splay is to display; to spread while chamfer is to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel.As nouns the difference between splay and chamfer
is that splay is a slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them while chamfer is (woodworking|engineering|drafting|cad) an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.As an adjective splay
is displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.splay
English
Verb
(en verb)- our ensigns splayed
Adjective
(en adjective)- Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.