Splitter vs Splatter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between splitter and splatter

is that splitter is a person or a thing that splits while splatter is an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

to splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

(en noun)

A person or a thing that splits.

(colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.

In baseball, a splitfinger fastball (a type of pitch).

(graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.

* splitter bus

* (GUI) sash

* (one who prefers to split categories) lumper

(wikipedia splatter)

(en noun)

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.

(attributive) A genre of gory horror.

splatter''' film; '''splatter movie

To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.

To cause (something) to splatter.

He splattered paint onto the wall.

To spatter (something or somebody).

* 2012 , Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise (page 100)

Her wet hands splattered him with suds.