Spray

/spɹeɪ/ · noun

Meaning

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.

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.

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.

The firemen sprayed the house.

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• sprays
• spraying
• sprayed

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