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▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
▸ verb:  (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
▸ verb:  (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
▸ verb:  (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To unfurl or unroll (a banner or flag).
▸ verb:  (intransitive)
▸ verb:  To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
▸ verb:  To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
▸ adjective:  Oblique, slanted.
▸ adjective:  Turned outward; spread out.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Crooked, distorted, out of place.
▸ adverb:  In an oblique or slanted manner; obliquely, slantedly.
▸ adverb:  Of walking, etc.: with the feet turned outwards; in a splayfooted manner.
▸ noun:  An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
▸ noun:  (architecture, also attributive)
▸ noun:  A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an 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.
▸ noun:  The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
▸ noun:  (road transport)
▸ noun:  A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
▸ noun:  The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”)

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