Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
splat . - noun computer graphics A method for combining different
textures by applying analpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completelytransparent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dutch farmer Jan Willem Horstmann, preparing to slaughter the entire line of sheep that he took so many years to breed, as foot-and-mouth disease continued to plague continental Europe "The ethics and legal implications of 'splatting' and 'sloshing' are expected to be hotly debated under the big top."
Perspectives 2007
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And then all the food caught up and came splatting right on me.
The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012
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Think about like this: if you fed 200 dairy cows ex-lax while they were in their stalls in a barn, the sound of cowshit splatting on the floor would be deafening and continuous.
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But given the two frontrunnners have spent more than $20m on splatting each other with attack ads in Florida alone, you can see the size of the mountain Santorum has to climb.12.57pm: Why did Mitt Romeny choose The Villages, a sprawling luxury retirement village north of Tampa for his eve-of-poll rally last night?
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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A decision involving the real death of a real creature, not the press-button splatting of some alien or "terrorist" on a computer screen.
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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It keeps thumping against the turf and splatting against the backstop.
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June Xan Brooks at Wimbledon 2010
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It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.
The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010
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