splash vs swash

splash

noun
  • The sound made by an object hitting a liquid. 

  • A small amount (of color). 

  • The shooting down of an aircraft over water. 

  • An impact or impression. 

  • A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below. 

  • A small amount of liquid. 

  • A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid. 

  • A large, prominent headline or article. 

  • A splash screen. 

  • The bleeding caused by a knife wound. 

  • A knife. 

verb
  • To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently. 

  • To shoot down (an aircraft) over water. 

  • To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. 

  • To spend (money). 

  • To roughly fill with color. 

  • To hit or expel liquid at. 

  • To stab (a person), causing them to bleed. 

  • To launch a ship. 

  • To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter. 

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. 

adj
  • bold; dramatic. 

  • Having pronounced swashes. 

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. 

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