spatter vs swash

spatter

noun
  • The sound of droplets hitting a surface. 

  • A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface. 

  • A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface. 

  • A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface. 

  • A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface. 

verb
  • To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing. 

  • To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets. 

  • To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something). 

  • To splash (someone or something) with small droplets. 

  • To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around. 

swash

noun
  • A wet splashing sound. 

  • A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. 

  • A smooth stroke; a swish. 

  • The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken. 

  • A streak or patch. 

  • A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes. 

  • A swishing noise. 

  • An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work. 

verb
  • To swipe. 

  • To streak, to color in a swash. 

  • To wade forcefully through liquid. 

  • To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward). 

  • To fall violently or noisily. 

  • To dash or flow noisily; to splash. 

  • To swirl through liquid; to swish. 

adj
  • bold; dramatic. 

  • Having pronounced swashes. 

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