backsplash
A vertical covering on a wall rising above a countertop or other work surface to protect the wall from spills and to decorate the wall.
Noun
- A vertical covering on a wall rising above a countertop or other work surface to protect the wall from spills and to decorate the wall.
- The small splash of water that occurs when an oar enters the water to begin a stroke, just before the rower reaches the catch.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.? Proto-Germanic *baką Proto-West Germanic *bak Old English bæc Middle English bak English back English splash English backsplash From back + splash.
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Verb
- To splash backward.
- He succeeded in cutting the pad of his right palm quite badly on the blade of a paring knife before seizing two of the C-cells, but he felt this no more than he felt the burns he had sustained when he had been...
- More importantly, the use of the delta tube prevents dangerous backsplashing of the agent that can occur when an impinging sparger is used improperly. - 2004, Yin Sun, Detection Technologies for Chemical Warfare Agents...