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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.

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

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