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SPLINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thin strip (wood or metal)
Synonyms:
slat; spline
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("spline" is a kind of...):
strip (thin piece of wood or metal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spline"):
lath (a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework)
fin; louver; louvre (one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain)
splat (a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair)
lag; stave (one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)
Holonyms ("spline" is a part of...):
Venetian blind (a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("spline" is a kind of...):
strip (thin piece of wood or metal)
