spray

Meaning of spray

noun
  1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
    The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
  2. A pressurized container; an atomizer.
  3. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
  4. 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.
  5. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
  6. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
  7. 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.
verb
  1. To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
    The firemen sprayed the house.
  2. To project in a dispersive manner.
    Spray some ointment on that scratch.
  3. To project many small items dispersively.
  4. To urinate in order to mark territory.
  5. 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
  1. A small branch of flowers or berries.
    The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.
  2. A collective body of small branches.
    The tree has a beautiful spray.
  3. Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
  4. An orchard.
  5. An ornament or design that resembles a branch.

Information about spray

Hyphenation of spray

spray

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • spray is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

spray synonyms

Meaning atomizer:

atomizer, sprayer, nebulizer

Meaning spraying:

spraying

Translation of spray

Anagrams of spray

prays, raspy, spary

Words that rhyme with spray

pray, bepray, repray, whipray, unpray, counterpray, overpray, Decaspray, autospray, bespray, blowspray, electrospray, hairspray, hypospray, respray, outpray

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