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noun plaʃplæʃ literary 1A splashing sound. the plash of the fountain Example sentencesExamples - It was true sunshine; the true music; the true plash of the fountains from the mouth of stone dolphins.
- Certain tribes of the North American Indians have been similarly fascinated by the loud plash of water, to the beauty of which we have alluded before
- Simply the gentle tones of a flute, the plash of running water and the breathy ululations of the artist's own voice.
Synonyms splashing, swashing, dashing, beating, battering 2A pool or puddle. 水池；水洼 Example sentencesExamples - Carefully picking his way through the sodden hillocks of grass, rather deep plashes and large stones strewn over the landscape, he soon noticed that his horse had wandered back and was taking an interest in his movements.
- I ride fast trying to avoid water and deep muddy plashes.
verb plaʃplæʃ [no object]literary 1Make a splashing sound. the oars plashed in the silence Example sentencesExamples - Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I plashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care.
- Questing and plashing, whiskers twitching, he searches vole-like for paths through the confusing cyberswamp.
- In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance.
- Quietly the boats were launched, plashing outwards towards that blue light that shimmered starlike in the blackness.
- Later there appear to be glass jars tinkling, the soft plashing of paint molecules expelled by industrial sprayguns - perhaps the machine is being coated with a durable finish.
Synonyms swash, wash, break, lap splashing, swashing, dashing, beating, battering - 1.1with object Strike the surface of (water) with a splashing sound.
拍击（水）面；使飞溅 the summer rain, That … plashed the azure of the river's flow Example sentencesExamples - The gravity of the situation made us look in silence, nothing heard but the plashing of the water against the boat.
- Chris plashed the water with his hand.
- As he became more awake, his senses became alert to another sound; that of gurgling, plashing water.
Synonyms splash, wash, swish, slap, slosh, break, purl
Derivativesadjective literary The plashy fens of the pathogen are a fertile habitat for flat-footed doom-mongers. Example sentencesExamples - Manga's familiar marks - the ramjet speed lines, the plashy globular peepers, the buckets of gore, - are merely the crumbs of an old and highly developed art form.
- On the plashy banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd.
- This work (which was used without acknowledgement by A. Wood) is the source of many well-known anecdotes, such as that of Ralegh laying his cloak for the queen in ‘a plashy place’.
OriginEarly 16th century: probably imitative. flash from Middle English: We think of flash in terms of fire and light, but in the Middle Ages it originally meant ‘splash water about’, and like plash (early 16th century) and splash (mid 18th century) probably came from the sound of the word. The association with fire may have developed from the resemblance of the word to flame (see flagrant). The idea of ‘ostentatious stylishness or display of wealth’ goes back to the 17th century. When calling a sudden, brief success a flash in the pan we are referring to early firearms. Sometimes the gunpowder would burn fiercely but ineffectually in the ‘pan’, the part that held the priming charge, without igniting the main charge. The result was a flash and some smoke, but the gun did not fire—what Shakespeare in Macbeth called ‘sound and fury signifying nothing’.
Rhymesabash, ash, Ashe, bash, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash verb plaʃplæʃ [with object]archaic 1Bend down and interweave (branches and twigs) to form a hedge. 〈古〉用（枝条）编筑篱笆 Example sentencesExamples - When hawthorn, blackthorn or firethorn were plashed in a hedge, they formed a difficult defensive hedge that acted as an obstacle to an attacking force.
- Osage orange and some other plants are plashed; that is, the plants are set at an angle rather than perpendicularly, and they are wired together obliquely in such a way that they make an impenetrable barrier just above the surface of the ground.
- 1.1 Make or renew (a hedge) by bending and interweaving branches and twigs.
Example sentencesExamples - If livestock containment was the priority, this usually meant that the hedge would be laid or plashed every 5 to 10 (or even 20) years, in order to reduce its overall bulk and increase its density.
- It had been strongly plashed in the past February, and was stiff and stout.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French plaissier, based on Latin plectere 'to plait'. Compare with pleach. nounplaSHplæʃ literary 1A sound produced by liquid striking something or being struck. 击水声，水的拍击声 Example sentencesExamples - The whole picture reverberates with the rustle and ripple and bank-caught plash of water.
- The snorting of the horse, the plash of hooves in the stream, the light above a dark ridge line, the twitter of birds and insects in the brush, almost (but not quite) transcend the Hollywood platitudes.
- I don't remember hearing the tell-tale plash of water today.
- You can almost hear the whispers and the plash of water against stone.
- Steve heard the rasp of oar-locks and the faint plash of a leisurely moving boat.
Synonyms splashing, swashing, dashing, beating, battering - 1.1 A pool or puddle.
水池；水洼 Example sentencesExamples - Carefully picking his way through the sodden hillocks of grass, rather deep plashes and large stones strewn over the landscape, he soon noticed that his horse had wandered back and was taking an interest in his movements.
- I ride fast trying to avoid water and deep muddy plashes.
verbplaSHplæʃ [no object]literary 1Splash. 发出拍击声；飞溅 gray curtains of rain plashed down 灰色雨帘飞溅而下。 Example sentencesExamples - Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I plashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care.
- Questing and plashing, whiskers twitching, he searches vole-like for paths through the confusing cyberswamp.
- In the rainy months, a symphony of leaks puddled her floor, though she never cared, plashing through, with a duck's insouciance.
- Quietly the boats were launched, plashing outwards towards that blue light that shimmered starlike in the blackness.
- Later there appear to be glass jars tinkling, the soft plashing of paint molecules expelled by industrial sprayguns - perhaps the machine is being coated with a durable finish.
Synonyms swash, wash, break, lap splashing, swashing, dashing, beating, battering - 1.1with object Strike the surface of (water) with a splashing sound.
拍击（水）面；使飞溅 Example sentencesExamples - The gravity of the situation made us look in silence, nothing heard but the plashing of the water against the boat.
- As he became more awake, his senses became alert to another sound; that of gurgling, plashing water.
- Chris plashed the water with his hand.
Synonyms splash, wash, swish, slap, slosh, break, purl
OriginEarly 16th century: probably imitative. verbplaSHplæʃ [with object]archaic 1Bend and interweave (branches and twigs) to form a hedge. 〈古〉用（枝条）编筑篱笆 Example sentencesExamples - Osage orange and some other plants are plashed; that is, the plants are set at an angle rather than perpendicularly, and they are wired together obliquely in such a way that they make an impenetrable barrier just above the surface of the ground.
- When hawthorn, blackthorn or firethorn were plashed in a hedge, they formed a difficult defensive hedge that acted as an obstacle to an attacking force.
- 1.1 Make or renew (a hedge) by bending and interweaving branches and twigs.
Example sentencesExamples - It had been strongly plashed in the past February, and was stiff and stout.
- If livestock containment was the priority, this usually meant that the hedge would be laid or plashed every 5 to 10 (or even 20) years, in order to reduce its overall bulk and increase its density.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French plaissier, based on Latin plectere ‘to plait’. Compare with pleach. |