spat meaning
EN
[spæt] [-æt] WSpat
- Spat may refer to:
- Spat (unit), a unit of solid angle
- Spats (footwear), a type of shoe accessory
- Wheel spats, British term for aerodynamic fairings that reduce the drag on fixed-undercarriage aircraft
- Spat, the past tense of spit
- Spat (molluscs), settled larvae of shellfish such as oysters and scallops
- Spat, the main villain in the game Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak
- SPAT, Toamasina Autonomous Port of Madagascar, from French Société de Gestion du Port Autonome de Toamasina
- S.P.A.T., Polish Special Forces, from Polish Samodzielny Pododdział Antyterrorystyczny Komisariatu Policji
- NounPLspats
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
- A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- (automotive) (UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- a brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- A light blow with something flat.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
- VerbSGspatsPRspattingPT, PPspatted
- simple past tense and past participle of spit.
- There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.
- If I had known you had a spittoon in the corner I would never have spat on the floor.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
- to quarrel or argue briefly.
- (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
- (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- simple past tense and past participle of spit.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.
- If I had known you had a spittoon in the corner I would never have spat on the floor.
- “I do what I like”, he said, and — just to drive home the point — he spat on the newly-cleaned floor.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- My restless sock feet stopped midtap, on the very floor those gentlemen trod in their calfskin shoes and spats.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of spat in English Dictionary
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- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Irregular verb forms
- Irregular past participles
- Irregular simple past forms
- Irregular past participles
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- Past participles
- Verb simple past forms
- Irregular verb forms
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
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- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "spat" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.