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a small amount of a liquid that has fallen or been dropped: There were several splashes of white paint on the carpet. B2. the noise of something hitting or moving in water: We heard a splash and then saw that Toni had fallen in the river.
1. a. : to strike and dash about a liquid or semiliquid substance. b. : to move in or into a liquid or semiliquid substance and cause it to spatter. 2. a (1) : to become spattered about. (2) : to spread or scatter in the manner of splashed liquid. b. : to fall, strike, or move with a splashing sound. a brook splashing over rocks. transitive verb. 1
A splash is a tiny amount of a liquid. You might, for example, prefer your coffee with just a splash of cream. A splash can be wet, like a splash of lemonade in your tea, or it can be bright, like a splash of yellow across the oil painting you're working on.
Splash definition: to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter. See examples of SPLASH used in a sentence.
If you splash about or splash around in water, you hit or disturb the water in a noisy way, causing some of it to fly up into the air. A lot of people were in the water, swimming or simply splashing about.
1. The act or sound of splashing: went for a splash in the lake; heard the splash of the fish being thrown back. 2. a. A flying mass of fluid. b. A small amount, especially of a fluid: a splash of liqueur on the cake. 3. A marking produced by or as if by scattered fluid: a splash of light.
the sound of something falling into or moving in water: They sat listening to the splash of raindrops on the lake. a splash of colour. a small area of colour that makes something look brighter: The flowers added a splash of colour to the room. Idioms. make a splash.
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to do something in a way that attracts a lot of attention or causes a lot of excitement Her first book made a big splash. Parents still like to make a splash for a daughter's wedding. See splash in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
1. If you splash around or splash about in water, you hit or disturb the water in a noisy way, causing some of it to fly up into the air. [...] 2. If you splash a liquid somewhere or if it splashes, it hits someone or something and scatters in a lot of small drops. [...] 3. A splash is the sound made when something hits water or falls into it.
