SPLASHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splashing mean? 

• SPLASHING (noun)
  The noun SPLASHING has 2 senses:

1. the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

2. the act of scattering water about haphazardly

  Familiarity information: SPLASHING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLASHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

spatter; spattering; splash; splashing; splattering

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

painting (the act of applying paint to a surface)

Derivation:

splash (dash a liquid upon or against)

splash (cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of scattering water about haphazardly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

splash; splashing

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

wetting (the act of making something wet)

Derivation:

splash (strike and dash about in a liquid)

 Context examples 

He baled wildly at first, splashing himself and flinging the water so short a distance that it ran back into the pool.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A single cab was splashing its way from the Oxford Street end.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing against the windows.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I turned, and Miss Ingram darted forwards from her sofa: the others, too, looked up from their several occupations; for at the same time a crunching of wheels and a splashing tramp of horse-hoofs became audible on the wet gravel.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I thanked him, and took my seat at the board; but found it extremely difficult to handle my knife and fork with anything like dexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while he was standing opposite, staring so hard, and making me blush in the most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I stood there, with his blood splashing round me, and I waited for a bit, but all was quiet, so I took heart once more.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was now visible a house or houses—for the building spread far—with many windows, and lights burning in some; we went up a broad pebbly path, splashing wet, and were admitted at a door; then the servant led me through a passage into a room with a fire, where she left me alone.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)