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plash

(plăsh)

1. A light splash.

2. The sound of a light splash.

v. plashed, plash·ing, plash·es

v.tr.

To spatter (liquid) about; splash.

v.intr.

To cause a light splash.

[Possibly from Middle English plashe, pool of water, from Old English plæsc.]

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plash

(plæʃ)

vb, n

a less common word for splash

[Old English plæsc, probably imitative; compare Dutch plas]

plash

(plæʃ)

(Horticulture) another word for pleach

[C15: from Old French plassier, from plais hedge, woven fence, from Latin plectere to plait; compare pleach]

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plash

(plæʃ)

n.

1. a gentle splash.

2. a pool or puddle.

v.t., v.i.

3. to splash gently.

[before 1000; Middle English plasch pool, puddle, Old English plæsc; c. Dutch, Low German plas]

plash′ing•ly, adv.

Plash

a heavy fall of rain or similar outpouring.

Examples: plash of rain, 1887; of sunlight, 1848; of water, 1851; of waterfowl, 1882.

plash

Past participle: plashed
Gerund: plashing

Imperative
plash
plash

Present
I plash
you plash
he/she/it plashes
we plash
you plash
they plash

Preterite
I plashed
you plashed
he/she/it plashed
we plashed
you plashed
they plashed

Present Continuous
I am plashing
you are plashing
he/she/it is plashing
we are plashing
you are plashing
they are plashing

Present Perfect
I have plashed
you have plashed
he/she/it has plashed
we have plashed
you have plashed
they have plashed

Past Continuous
I was plashing
you were plashing
he/she/it was plashing
we were plashing
you were plashing
they were plashing

Past Perfect
I had plashed
you had plashed
he/she/it had plashed
we had plashed
you had plashed
they had plashed

Future
I will plash
you will plash
he/she/it will plash
we will plash
you will plash
they will plash

Future Perfect
I will have plashed
you will have plashed
he/she/it will have plashed
we will have plashed
you will have plashed
they will have plashed

Future Continuous
I will be plashing
you will be plashing
he/she/it will be plashing
we will be plashing
you will be plashing
they will be plashing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been plashing
you have been plashing
he/she/it has been plashing
we have been plashing
you have been plashing
they have been plashing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been plashing
you will have been plashing
he/she/it will have been plashing
we will have been plashing
you will have been plashing
they will have been plashing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been plashing
you had been plashing
he/she/it had been plashing
we had been plashing
you had been plashing
they had been plashing

Conditional
I would plash
you would plash
he/she/it would plash
we would plash
you would plash
they would plash

Past Conditional
I would have plashed
you would have plashed
he/she/it would have plashed
we would have plashed
you would have plashed
they would have plashed

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Noun	1.	plash - the sound like water splashing splash noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" splat - a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
Verb	1.	plash - interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge" pleach interlace, intertwine, lace, twine, enlace, entwine - spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"
	2.	plash - dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" spatter, splatter, swash, splash, splosh puddle - make a puddle by splashing water slosh around, slush around, slush, slosh - spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" disperse, sprinkle, dot, scatter, dust - distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"

Translations

panschen planschen plätschern

barboter clapoter

plash

(liter)

n (of water, rain) → Plätschern nt; (of oars) → Platschen nt

vi (water, rain) → plätschern; (oars) → platschen

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A volley was heard, and some bullets whistled past, while others plashed against something.

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Neptune was already unsubstantial in the twilight, half god, half ghost, and his fountain plashed dreamily to the men and satyrs who idled together on its marge.

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Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.

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And so, in better heart, the three plashed painfully down the never-ending lane.

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In the fountain, where the water danced and sparkled in the sun, astride of every drop she saw merry little spirits, who plashed and floated in the clear, cool waves, and sang as gayly as the flowers, on whom they scattered glittering dew.