SPRAYS
/spɹeɪz/
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Definition
/spɹeɪz/
noun
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.“The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”
- A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- 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.
- A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
verb
- To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.“The firemen sprayed the house.”
- To project in a dispersive manner.“Spray some ointment on that scratch.”
- To project many small items dispersively.
- To urinate in order to mark territory.
- 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.“to spray the heap of a target process”
noun
- A small branch of flowers or berries.“The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.”
- A collective body of small branches.“The tree has a beautiful spray.”
- Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
- An orchard.
- An ornament or design that resembles a branch.
Source: Wiktionary
