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Splayed vs Spayed - What's the difference?

splayed | spayed |

As verbs the difference between splayed and spayed

is that splayed is (splay) while spayed is (spay).

splayed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (splay)

  • splay

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To display; to spread.
  • * Gascoigne
  • our ensigns splayed
  • 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.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
  • * M. Arnold
  • Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Anagrams

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    spayed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spay)

  • spay

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the (etyl) espeier, equivalent to the (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.
  • Synonyms
    * castrate, emasculate (for a male) * geld * neuter * sterilize (used for all species and for both genders)

    References

    * “ spay, v.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    See spayard.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • References

    * “ spay]” listed as a variant spelling of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50232517 spaya(r)d, spayd]”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989