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spat (root: spit)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spat has 3 senses
- spat(n = noun.communication) bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, squabble, tiff - a quarrel about petty points; Array is a kind of dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle
- spat(n = noun.artifact) gaiter - a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles; Array is a kind of leg covering, legging, leging
- spat(n = noun.animal) Array - a young oyster or other bivalve; Array is a kind of offspring, young
Derived form verb spat5
is a member of bivalvia, class bivalvia, class lamellibranchia, class pelecypoda, lamellibranchia
Derived forms verb spat6, verb spat2
Verb spat has 7 senses
- spat(v = verb.weather) Array - come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on us" is one way to come down, fall, precipitate
- spat(v = verb.contact) Array - become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat" is one way to attach
- spat(v = verb.contact) Array - strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were spatting the leaves" is one way to collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike
- spat(v = verb.communication) acclaim, applaud, clap - clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval; Array is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
- spat(v = verb.communication) Array - engage in a brief and petty quarrel; Array is one way to altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap
- spat(v = verb.body) Array - spawn; "oysters spat" is one way to spawn
- spat(v = verb.body) clap - clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music" is one way to gesticulate, gesture, motion
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Derived form noun spat3
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derived form noun spat1
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue spat
Sam wants to spat with Sue
Derived form noun spat3
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
spat, imp.
spat, n. [From the root of spit; hence, literally, that which is ejected.].
A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively. [1913 Webster]
spat, v. i. & t.
To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn. [1913 Webster]
spat, n. [Cf. Pat.].
- A light blow with something flat. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension. [1913 Webster]
spat, v. i.
To dispute. Smart. [1913 Webster]
spat, v. t.
To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands. [1913 Webster]
"Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands."
[1913 Webster]
spat, n. [Short for Spatterdash.].
- A legging; a gaiter. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- A kind of short cloth or leather gaiter worn over the upper part of the shoe and fastened beneath the instep; -- chiefly in
pl. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spat, past and past part. of SPIT.
spat, n.
1 (usu. in pl.) hist. a short cloth gaiter protecting the shoe from mud etc.
2 a cover for an aircraft wheel.
1 (usu. in pl.) hist. a short cloth gaiter protecting the shoe from mud etc.
2 a cover for an aircraft wheel.
spat, n. & v. US colloq.
--n.
1 a petty quarrel.
2 a slight amount.
--v.intr. (spatted, spatting) quarrel pettily.
--n.
1 a petty quarrel.
2 a slight amount.
--v.intr. (spatted, spatting) quarrel pettily.
spat, n. & v.
--n. the spawn of shellfish, esp. the oyster.
--v. (spatted, spatting)
1 intr. (of an oyster) spawn.
2 tr. shed (spawn).
--n. the spawn of shellfish, esp. the oyster.
--v. (spatted, spatting)
1 intr. (of an oyster) spawn.
2 tr. shed (spawn).
Etymology
AF, of unkn. orig.
THESAURUS
spat
altercate, altercation, argument, beef, bicker, bickering, blood feud, box, brawl, broil, brood, buffet, burst, caterwaul, chop, clutch, contention, controversy, differ, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, fall, falling-out, farrow, feud, fight, flite, fliting, fracas, fry, fuss, get, hassle, hatch, have words, imbroglio, join issue, litter, logomachy, miff, nest, open quarrel, paste, polemic, punch, quarrel, set to, sharp words, slanging match, slap, smack, snarl, spar, spawn, squabble, strife, swack, tiff, tussle, vendetta, words, wrangle, youngROGET THESAURUS
spat
Discord
N discord, disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, Kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows, discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited, quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, Mars gravior sub pace latet, discord, discordance, dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling, harshness, Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert, marrowbones and cleavers, discordant, dissonant, absonant, out of tune, tuneless, unmusical, untunable, unmelodious, immelodious, unharmonious, inharmonious, singsong, cacophonous, harsh, jarring.Posterity
N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.
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