spray
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
ball-games
biology
climbing
computing
crafts
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
soccer
sports
zoology
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: sprays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
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.
gloss: Something resembling a spray of liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
gloss: A pressurized container; an atomizer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
He could give a bloody good spray, Bricey,' Cook says. 'He'd be frothing at the mouth after he'd finished.
gloss: To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The firemen sprayed the house.
Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters.
gloss: To project in a dispersive manner.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Spray some ointment on that scratch.
The water sprayed out of the hose.
gloss: To project many small items dispersively.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To urinate in order to mark territory.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to spray the heap of a target process
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.
gloss: To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Yunus sprayed it to the wing where Ali was in some space.
gloss: To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To give unwanted advice.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: To shower guests dancing at a function with money.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
examples: “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.
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.
Derived words: autospray
bear spray
bidet spray
body spray
breath spray
bug spray
capiscum spray
capsicum spray
cooking spray
cryospray
feather spray
fly spray
hair spray
horse spray
hypospray
microspray
nanospray
nasal spray
OC spray
pepper-spray
pepper spray
pool spray
road spray
room spray
salt spray
salt spray test
seaspray
silicone spray
sprayball
spray bar
spraybar
sprayboard
spray bomb
spray bottle
spray bow
spray can
spray cheese
spray condenser
spraydeck
spray drain
spraydrift
spray-dry
sprayey
spray foam
sprayful
spray gun
sprayhood
sprayless
spraylike
spray paint
sprayproof
sprayskirt
spray tan
spray-tan
spray-tanning
thermospray
vanishing spray
electrospray
misspray
overspray
respray
bespray
nanosprayed
presprayed
say it, don't spray it
sprayable
spray and pray
spray-on
spredges
unsprayed
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ցողել
roman: cʻoġel
lang: Armenian
word: սրսկել
roman: srskel
lang: Assamese
word: সিঁচা
roman: xĩsa
lang: Assamese
word: ছটিওৱা
roman: sotiüa
lang: Bulgarian
word: пръскам
roman: prǎskam
lang: Czech
word: rozprášit
lang: Danish
word: spraye
lang: Danish
word: forstøve
lang: Danish
word: oversprøjte
lang: Esperanto
word: spruĉi
lang: Esperanto
word: spraji
lang: Finnish
word: suihkuttaa
lang: Finnish
word: sumuttaa
lang: French
word: pulvériser
lang: French
word: vaporiser
lang: French
word: asperger
lang: German
word: versprühen
lang: German
word: zerstäuben
lang: Greek
word: ψεκάζω
roman: psekázo
lang: Greek
word: ραντίζω
roman: rantízo
lang: Hungarian
word: permetez
lang: Italian
word: polverizzare
lang: Malay
word: سمبور
lang: Malay
word: سمڤروت
lang: Malay
word: sembur
lang: Malay
word: semperut
lang: Māori
word: uwhiuwhi
lang: Polish
word: rozpylać
lang: Polish
word: rozpylić
lang: Polish
word: opryskiwać
lang: Polish
word: opryskać
lang: Portuguese
word: borrifar
lang: Quechua
word: ch'allay
lang: Russian
word: распыля́ть
roman: raspyljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: распыли́ть
roman: raspylítʹ
lang: Russian
word: разбры́згивать
roman: razbrýzgivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: разбры́згать
roman: razbrýzgatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: rociar
lang: Spanish
word: pulverizar
lang: Spanish
word: atomizar
lang: Spanish
word: asperjar
lang: Spanish
word: espreyar
lang: Spanish
word: asperger
lang: Thai
word: พ่น
roman: pôn
lang: Turkish
word: püskürtmek
lang: Vietnamese
word: phun
lang: Vietnamese
word: xịt