Betekenis van splash In het Nederlands

• 0 If a liquid splashes or if you splash a liquid, it falls on or hits something or someone:

  • Water was splashing from a hole in the roof.

  • Unfortunately some paint splashed onto the rug.

  • She splashed her face with cold water.

  • She poured a large gin and splashed soda into it from a siphon.

  • The kids were splashing (about/around) in the shallow end of the swimming pool.

• 1 to print or show something, or be printed or shown, in a very noticeable way:

  • Several newspapers splashed colour pictures of the star across their front pages.

  • The story has splashed all over Canadian newspapers.

• 2 a small amount of a liquid that has fallen or been dropped:

  • There were several splashes of white paint on the carpet.

  • We heard a splash and then saw that Toni had fallen in the river.

• 3 something or someone bright or very noticeable:

  • The little girl in her flowery dress provides the only splash of colour in the picture.

• 4 a shocking or exciting news story that is given a lot of attention in a newspaper or news programme:

  • The revelation would have been a splash in every newspaper.

  • She came to me because there's been a big splash in the newspaper.

• 5 to scatter liquid or to cause liquid to scatter through the air or onto something:

  • [ T ] She splashed her face with cold water.

  • [ I ] Kids love to splash around in mud puddles.

• 6 a bright area of color or light:

  • a splash of sunlight

  • The child’s red dress brought a splash of color to the picture.

• 7 an amount of liquid scattered, or the sound made by liquid being scattered:

  • I wiped up the splashes from the floor.

  • Jimmy jumped into the pool with a splash.