spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: sprays
Etymology: From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”).
Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).
Senses: examples: text: The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
text: A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut. The café reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside.
ref: 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:
roman: Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá
glosses: A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
examples: text: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: Something resembling a spray of liquid.
synonyms: spray can
glosses: A pressurized container; an atomizer.
synonyms: spray can
glosses: Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
examples: text: This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
ref: 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
examples: text: On match days he could give a good spray, and in many ways he was an old-fashioned coach, having learned a lot of his approach from Ron Barassi.
ref: 2008, Robert Harvey, Harves: Strength Through Loyalty, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN, page 119:
text: Expectations of what they will put up with have changed and a big spray probably doesn't have the effect it used to have. It certainly worked for me, I would get really aggressive and get fired up 'cause it's a motivational device they used.
ref: 2008, Kevin Hillier, Rocket Science: The Biography of Rodney Eade, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN, page 151:
text: He could give a bloody good spray, Bricey,' Cook says. 'He'd be frothing at the mouth after he'd finished.
ref: 2018, Paul Amy, Fabulous Fred: The Strife and Times of Fred Cook, Melbourne Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
Derived terms: bear spray
bidet spray
body spray
breath spray
bug spray
capiscum spray
capsicum spray
cooking spray
feather spray
fly spray
hair spray
horse spray
nasal spray
OC spray
pepper-spray
pepper spray
pool spray
room spray
salt spray
salt spray test
silicone spray
spray bar
spraybar
spray bomb
spray bottle
spray bow
spray can
spray cheese
spray condenser
spray drain
spray-dry
spray foam
spray gun
spray paint
spray tan
spray-tan
spray-tanning
vanishing spray