PLASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plash mean? 

• PLASH (noun)
  The noun PLASH has 1 sense:

1. the sound like water splashing

  Familiarity information: PLASH used as a noun is very rare.

• PLASH (verb)
  The verb PLASH has 2 senses:

1. interlace the shoots of

2. dash a liquid upon or against

  Familiarity information: PLASH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound like water splashing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

plash; splash

Hypernyms ("plash" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plash"):

splat (a single splash)

Derivation:

plash (dash a liquid upon or against)

• PLASH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interlace the shoots of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

plash; pleach

Context example:

pleach a hedge

Hypernyms (to "plash" is one way to...):

enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine (spin, wind, or twist together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dash a liquid upon or against

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

plash; spatter; splash; splatter; splosh; swash

Context example:

The mother splashed the baby's face with water

Hypernyms (to "plash" is one way to...):

disperse; dot; dust; scatter; sprinkle (distribute loosely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "plash"):

puddle (make a puddle by splashing water)

slosh; slosh around; slush; slush around (spill or splash copiously or clumsily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

plash (the sound like water splashing)

 Context examples 

She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on—tap, tap—plash, plash—from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise—tap, tap—plash, plash—as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said: (...)

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)