spray

Meanings

Noun

• A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
• 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.
• A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
• 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.
• A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
• A small branch of flowers or berries.
• A collective body of small branches.
• Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
• An orchard.
• An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

Verb

• To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
• To project in a dispersive manner.
• 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.

Origin

• From Middle Dutch spraien, sprayen, spraeyen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną ("to spray, sprinkle"), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- ("to sow, scatter"). Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen, Danish dialectal språe, Swedish dialectal språ, Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ, Dutch sproeien ("to spray, sprinkle"), German sprühen ("to spray, sparkle").
• From Middle English spray, from Old English *spræġ, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin.