Whip vs Splash - What's the difference?
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A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals
# Same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
(hunting) A whipper-in.
* 1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 27:
(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
Whipped cream.
(nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
(African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
(roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
To hit with a whip.
By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
(slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
* 2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
To urge into action.
(nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
* Moxon
(nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
* John Gay
To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
* He whipped the ball at me.
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To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
* Emerson
To snap back and forth like a whip.
* The pennants whipped in the wind.
To move very fast.
* The wind whipped through the valley.
* L'Estrange
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
To move (something) very fast; often with up'', ''out , etc.
* L'Estrange
* Walpole
(roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
(figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
* Shakespeare
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
(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:
As an acronym whip
is (baseball) ; a statistic of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched.As a noun splash is
(onomatopoeia) the sound made by an object hitting a liquid.As a verb splash is
to hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.whip
English
Noun
(en noun)- From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.
Synonyms
* (last for directing animals) crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (lash for corporal punishment) cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (political party enforcer) party whipDerived terms
* bullock-whip * bullwhip * buggy whip * coachwhip * dogwhip * drafting whip * horsewhip * longe whip * party whip * signal whip, signalwhip * snake whip, snakewhip * stockwhip * whipcracking * whip snake * yard whipVerb
(whipp)- The rider whipped the horse.
- I whipped her with a newspaper.
- She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
- to whip eggs or cream
- He whipped the department into shape.
- Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
- to whip a ruffle
- In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
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- whipping their rough surface for a trout
- Two friends, travelling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.
- He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
- She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.
- He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
- They would whip me with their fine wits.
- to whip wheat
Synonyms
* flail * flog * knout * lash * quirt * scourge * thrash * threshDerived terms
* whip in * whip off * whipped vote * whipper * whip upReferences
* Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books :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.