Word: spray Part of Speech: verb 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”). Pronunciation: /spɹeɪ/ 1. To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. Labels: transitive Example: The firemen sprayed the house. Example: Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters. 2. To project in a dispersive manner. Labels: ergative Example: Spray some ointment on that scratch. Example: The water sprayed out of the hose. 3. To project many small items dispersively. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The sprawl of sheds like Magna Parks 1 to 3 are a particularly vivid measure, because they host the final moment of relative stasis for millions of products that are then sprayed out to homes in every direction. Example: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. 4. To urinate in order to mark territory. Labels: intransitive 5. To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit. Labels: transitive Example: to spray the heap of a target process Example: 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. 6. To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance. Labels: transitive Example: Kevin McLeod sprayed the ball across from the left flank where a raging Ainsworth met it on the volley from 25 yards out, crashing the ball into the roof of the net. Example: Yunus sprayed it to the wing where Ali was in some space. 7. To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction. Labels: transitive Example: Despite a goal to Vin Gardiner for Carlton, courtesy of an infringement, the Blues squandered many opportunities in attack. They sprayed the ball with their field kicking, and in their path toward goal. Example: But once again their forwards, including Sloss, sprayed the ball in front of goal and squandered their momentum by kicking a solitary goal and six careless behinds. 8. To give unwanted advice. Labels: derogatory, slang 9. To shower guests dancing at a function with money. Labels: Nigeria Example: “If a celebrator is dancing and you spray him/her, you may go to jail from the party venue because the law enforcement agents will be there, waiting to arrest you. Example: Politicians have been known to spray crowds with cash. There is a cottage industry of vendors offering fresh banknotes to partygoers looking to spray their hosts.