Meaning

14 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

    The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

    Spray, Sprühnebel

    водяна́я пыльvodjanája pylʹ, бры́згиbrýzgi

    a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Something resembling a spray of liquid.

  3. (countable)A pressurized container; an atomizer.

    пульвериза́торpulʹverizátor, распыли́тельraspylítelʹ, опры́скивательoprýskivatelʹ

  4. (countable)Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.

    Spray

    спрейsprɛj

  5. (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. (countable)A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.

    Reisig, Blütenstand

    побе́гpobég, бутонье́ркаbutonʹjérka

  7. (countable)A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.

  8. (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.

  9. (Australia, countable, uncountable)A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.

  10. (countable)A small branch of flowers or berries.

    The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.

    flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage

  11. (countable)A collective body of small branches.

    The tree has a beautiful spray.

  12. (uncountable)Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.

Examples

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  1. They are spraying the fruit trees.

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  2. Don't forget to bring bug spray.

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  3. Tom got sprayed by a skunk.

    ruТома обрызгал скунс.

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  4. Do you have any bug spray?

    deHast du Insektenspray?

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  5. Tom spray painted his bicycle red.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid:
pressurized container:
small branch of flowers or berries:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid:
small branch of flowers or berries:

Origin

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately fr

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”).

From Middle English spray, from Old English *spræġ, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin. Compare English sprig (“shoot, twig”).

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