different between splat vs lamella

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /splæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).

Noun

splat (plural splats)

1. The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia

Noun

splat (plural splats)

1. The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.

   I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.

2. The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.

   The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.

3. (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
4. (computing, slang) Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
   1. The asterisk *
   2. The hash symbol #
5. A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
6. A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPALT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.

Usage notes

• (computing, asterisk): Usage may be limited based on the function of the symbol in a particular context. In the Ruby programming language, for example, the asterisk is called a splat when used to construct or separate an array, but not when used as a multiplication operator.

Verb

splat (third-person singular simple present splats, present participle splatting, simple past and past participle splatted)

1. (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.

2. (transitive) To splatter.

3. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.

Related terms

• splat mat
• splatter

See also

• plop
• splash
• sploosh
• sploop

Anagrams

• -plast, plats, slapt, spalt

English

Etymology

From Latin l?mella (“small, thin plate of metal”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /l??m?l.?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

lamella (plural lamellas or lamellae)

1. A thin, plate-like structure.
2. (mycology) The gill of a mushroom.

Related terms

• lamellate, lamellar
• multilamellate
• multilamellated
• lame (“thin plate; lamina”)

Translations

Anagrams

• malleal

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Lamelle, from French lamelle, from Latin l?mina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?m?l??]
• Hyphenation: la?mel?la
• Rhymes: -l?

Noun

lamella (plural lamellák)

1. small, thin plate made of metal or plastic
2. (photography) blade (one of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera)

Declension

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin l?mella (“small, thin plate of metal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?m?l.la/
• Rhymes: -?lla

Noun

lamella f (plural lamelle)

1. thin plate, lamella
2. (botany) gill, lamella
3. (electronics) wafer

Related terms

• lamellare

Latin

Etymology

l?mina (“thin plate”) +? -lus (“diminutive suffix”)

Noun

l?mella f (genitive l?mellae); first declension

1. A small, thin plate of metal

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: lamelle, omelette
• Galician: lamela
• Portuguese: lamela

References

• lamella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lamella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette