| spat | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff | a quarrel about petty points. |
| ~ dustup, quarrel, run-in, wrangle, row, words | an angry dispute.; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. gaiter, spat | a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles. |
| ~ leg covering, legging, leging | a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle). |
| n. (animal) | 3. spat | a young oyster or other bivalve. |
| ~ young, offspring | any immature animal. |
| ~ bivalvia, class bivalvia, class lamellibranchia, class pelecypoda, lamellibranchia | oysters; clams; scallops; mussels. |
| v. (weather) | 4. spat | come down like raindrops.; "Bullets were spatting down on us" |
| ~ come down, precipitate, fall | fall from clouds.; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" |
| v. (contact) | 5. spat | become permanently attached.; "mollusks or oysters spat" |
| ~ attach | become attached.; "The spider's thread attached to the window sill" |
| v. (contact) | 6. spat | strike with a sound like that of falling rain.; "Bullets were spatting the leaves" |
| ~ collide with, impinge on, hit, run into, strike | hit against; come into sudden contact with.; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" |
| v. (communication) | 7. acclaim, applaud, clap, spat | clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval. |
| ~ approve, o.k., okay, sanction | give sanction to.; "I approve of his educational policies" |
| ~ bravo | applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava'. |
| ~ gesticulate, gesture, motion | show, express or direct through movement.; "He gestured his desire to leave" |
| v. (communication) | 8. spat | engage in a brief and petty quarrel. |
| ~ altercate, argufy, quarrel, dispute, scrap | have a disagreement over something.; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" |
| v. (body) | 9. spat | spawn.; "oysters spat" |
| ~ spawn | lay spawn.; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn" |
| v. (body) | 10. clap, spat | clap one's hands together.; "The children were clapping to the music" |
| ~ gesticulate, gesture, motion | show, express or direct through movement.; "He gestured his desire to leave" |
| luda | | |
| n. (location) | 1. luda, luta | an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun. |
| ~ conurbation, sprawl, urban sprawl | an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. |
| ~ cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china | a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world. |
| ~ dairen, dalian, talien | a port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda. |
| ~ lushun, port arthur | a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda. |
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