Splayed vs Spayed - What's the difference?
splayed | spayed |
(splay)
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.
(spay)
To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.
As verbs the difference between splayed and spayed
is that splayed is (splay) while spayed is (spay).splayed
English
Verb
(head)splay
English
Verb
(en verb)- our ensigns splayed
Adjective
(en adjective)- Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* *spayed
English
Verb
(head)spay
English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) espeier, equivalent to the (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Verb
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.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