spray

Meaning

1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
2. Something resembling a spray of liquid.
3. A pressurized container; an atomizer.
4. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
5. 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.
6. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
7. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
8. 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.
9. A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.

sprinkle

splash

small branch

spray on

pour on

shoot forth

shower bath

spurt out

cascade down

blow against

injection device

sparging

nebulization

sherardizing

smash into pieces

fine mist

spong

nebulise

thin drops of water

thin rain

jet plating

metallizing

branching fault

small bundle

spray pump

spray repair

clading

water fog

spinkle

spray rose

corsage

distributive fault

gush out

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɹeɪ/

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”).