Splay vs. Chamfer: What's the Difference?

Splay and Chamfer Definitions
Splay
To spread (the limbs, for example) out or apart
The dog rolled on its back and splayed its legs.
Chamfer
To cut off the edge or corner of; bevel.
Splay
To make slanting or sloping; bevel
Splayed the edge of the tabletop.
Chamfer
To cut a groove in; flute.
Splay
To dislocate (a bone). Used of an animal.
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Chamfer
A flat surface made by cutting off the edge or corner of a block of wood or other material.
Splay
To be spread out or apart
After work, he splayed out on the couch.
Chamfer
A furrow or groove, as in a column.
Splay
To slant or slope.
Chamfer
An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
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Splay
Spread or turned out.
Chamfer
(transitive) To cut off the edge or corner of something.
Splay
Clumsy or clumsily formed; awkward.
Chamfer
(transitive) To cut a groove in something.
Splay
An oblique angle or bevel given to the sides of an opening in a wall so that the opening is wider on one side of the wall than on the other.
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Chamfer
The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
Splay
To spread; spread out.
Chamfer
To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
Splay
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
Chamfer
To make a chamfer on.
Splay
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
Chamfer
Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
Splay
To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
Chamfer
Cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel;
Bevel the surface
Splay
To spay; to castrate.
Chamfer
Cut a furrow into a columns
Splay
Spread out; turned outward.
To sit splay-legged
Splay
Flat and ungainly.
Splay shoulders
Splay
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.
Splay
To display; to spread.
Splay
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
Splay
To spay; to castrate.
Splay
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
Splay
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
Sonwthing splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
Splay
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Splay
An outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
Splay
Spread open or apart;
He splayed his huge hands over the table
Splay
Turn outward;
These birds can splay out their toes
Ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees
Splay
Move out of position;
Dislocate joints
The artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically
Splay
Turned outward in an ungainly manner;
Splay knees