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Definition spray

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spr?ien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spr?wijan? (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“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”).

Noun

spray (plural sprays)

1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
2. A pressurized container; an atomizer.
3. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
4. (medicine) 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.
5. (metalworking) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
6. (metalworking) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
7. (countable, computing) 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.

Verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

1. (transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
2. (ergative) To project in a dispersive manner.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To project many small items dispersively.
4. (intransitive, zoology) To urinate in order to mark territory.
5. (transitive, computing, computer security) 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.

Etymology 2

From Old English sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin.

Noun

spray (countable and uncountable, plural sprays)

1. (countable) A small branch of flowers or berries.
2. (countable) A collective body of small branches.
3. (uncountable) Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
4. (countable, obsolete) An orchard.
5. (countable) An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

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