spray
English
/spɹeɪ/
noun
Definitions
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
- (countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- (countable) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- (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.
- (metalworking) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- (metalworking) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- (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.
Etymology
Derived from Middle Dutch spraien, sprāien derived from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (sprinkle, spray) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (twist, scatter, strew, be quick, sow, twitch, turn, fidget, jump, flinch, push, be productive, earn).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sper-
Gloss
twist, scatter, strew, be quick, sow, twitch, turn, fidget, jump, flinch, push, be productive, earn
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
踊
Emoji
🪢
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- agrospraying English
- board English
- bow English
- cryospray English
- deck English
- dry English
- electrospray English
- electrospraying English
- hood English
- microelectrospray English
- microspray English
- microsprayer English
- nanoelectrospray English
- nanospray English
- nanosprayer English
- nonsprayable English
- overspray English
- respray English
- resprayer English
- sea English
- seaspray English
- skirt English
- spray bow English
- spray-dry English
- sprayable English
- sprayboard English
- spraydeck English
- sprayer English
- sprayey English
- sprayhood English
- spraying English
- sprayless English
- spraylike English
- sprayproof English
- sprayskirt English
- thermospray English
- unsprayable English
- jalkaspray Finnish
- spray Finnish
- spraydeodorantti Finnish
- spraymaalata Finnish
- spraytölkki Finnish
- sporta Latin
- spurius Latin
- Spray German
- Sprühdose German
- Sprühkäse German
- Sprühnebel German
- Sprühregen German
- besprühen German
- sprühen German
- versprühen German
- orrspray Hungarian
- spray Hungarian
- besproeien Dutch, Flemish
- haarspray Dutch, Flemish
- spray Dutch, Flemish
- sproeien Dutch, Flemish
- sproeier Dutch, Flemish
- verfspray Dutch, Flemish
- спрей Russian
- espray Spanish, Castilian
- διασπείρω Ancient Greek
- διασπορά Ancient Greek
- σπάργανον Ancient Greek
- σπέρμα Ancient Greek
- σπαρνός Ancient Greek
- σπείρω Ancient Greek
- σπεῖρα Ancient Greek
- σπεῖρον Ancient Greek
- σπορά Ancient Greek
- σπόρος Ancient Greek
- *sper- Proto-Indo-European
- *sper-to Proto-Indo-European
- *sperH- Proto-Indo-European
- *spor- Proto-Indo-European
- *sprend- Proto-Indo-European
- *spérmn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- *spéryeti Proto-Indo-European
- hårspray Norwegian Bokmål
- nesespray Norwegian Bokmål
- spray Norwegian Bokmål
- sprayboks Norwegian Bokmål
- spraye Norwegian Bokmål
- spraymaling Norwegian Bokmål
- spray Portuguese
- *sparaz Proto-Germanic
- *sparāną Proto-Germanic
- *sprēwijaną Proto-Germanic
- *spurnaną Proto-Germanic
- *spurô Proto-Germanic
- spray Polish
- hårspray Norwegian Nynorsk
- spray Norwegian Nynorsk
- sprayboks Norwegian Nynorsk
- spraye Norwegian Nynorsk
- spreawlian Old English
- spraien, sprāien Middle Dutch
- sproeyen Middle Dutch
- spræjen Middle High German
- *sparja Proto-Albanian
- σπέρνω gkm
- *spéřřō Proto-Hellenic
- 𐌔𐌓𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌋 Etruscan
- bow
- sea
- dry
- deck
- hood
- skirt
- board
- respray
- sprayey
- sprayer
- seaspray
- spraying
- spraylike
- spray-dry
- sprayable
- resprayer
- spraydeck
- cryospray
- sprayless
- overspray
- nanospray
- sprayhood
- spray bow
- sprayboard
- sprayproof
- sprayskirt
- microspray
- unsprayable
- nanosprayer
- thermospray
- agrospraying
- microsprayer
- nonsprayable
- electrospray
- electrospraying
- nanoelectrospray
- microelectrospray