spray

See also: Spray

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen ‎(“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną ‎(“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- ‎(“to sow, scatter”). Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen ‎(“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe ‎(“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ ‎(“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ ‎(“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien ‎(“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen ‎(“to spray, sparkle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

spray ‎(plural sprays)

1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

   The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

2. A small branch of flowers or berries.

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

   • Dryden

     The painted birds, companions of the spring, / Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing.

3. A collective body of small branches.

   The tree has a beautiful spray.

   • Spenser

     And from the trees did lop the needless spray.

4. A pressurized container; an atomizer.
5. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
6. (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.
7. (metalworking) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
8. (metalworking) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.

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Derived terms

Derived terms

body spray bug spray capiscum spray cooking spray feather spray fly spray

hair spray pepper spray pool spray spray bottle spray can

spray condenser spray drain spray gun spray paint vanishing spray

Translations

fine, gentle, disperse mist of liquid

• Finnish: sumu (fi), usva (fi)
• French: embrun (fr) m, gouttelette (fr) f
• German: Spray (de) m, Sprühnebel m

• Greek: ψιχάλες (el) f pl ‎(psicháles), ψεκασμός (el) m ‎(psekasmós)
• Navajo: tózhool
• Polish: mgiełka (pl) f
• Portuguese: borrifo (pt) m, spray (pt) m, esprei (pt), esprei (pt)
• Russian: водяна́я пыль f ‎(vodjanája pylʹ), бры́зги (ru) f pl ‎(brýzgi)
• Spanish: spray (es) m, aerosol (es) m, difusión (es) f

small branch of flowers or berries

• Finnish: varpu (fi), terttu
• French: rameau (fr) m, branchette (fr) f, gerbe (fr) f
• German: Reisig (de) n, Blütenstand (de) m
• Greek: κλωνάρι (el) n ‎(klonári)
• Japanese: 小枝 ‎(こえだ, koeda)

• Polish: kiść (pl) f
• Portuguese: raminho m
• Russian: побе́г (ru) m ‎(pobég) (дерева или кустарника), бутонье́рка (ru) f ‎(butonʹjérka) (decoration)
• Spanish: ramito m

pressurized container

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴霧器 (zh), 喷雾器 (zh) ‎(pēnwùqì)

• Finnish: suihkepullo, suihke
• French: pulvérisateur (fr) m, vaporisateur (fr) m

• Japanese: スプレー ‎(supurē)
• Polish: spray (pl) m, spraj m, sprej (pl) m
• Portuguese: spray (pt) m, esprei (pt)
• Russian: пульвериза́тор (ru) m ‎(pulʹverizátor), распыли́тель (ru) m ‎(raspylítelʹ), опры́скиватель (ru) m ‎(oprýskivatelʹ), спрей (ru) m ‎(sprɛj)

commercial product

• Finnish: suihke, spray (fi)
• French: pulvérisation (fr) f
• German: Spray (de) m

• Japanese: スプレー ‎(supurē)
• Portuguese: spray (pt) m, esprei (pt)
• Russian: спрей (ru) m ‎(sprɛj)

Verb

spray ‎(third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

1. (transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner.

   The firemen sprayed the house.‎

   Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters.‎

   Spray some ointment on that scratch.‎

2. (transitive, figuratively) To project many small items dispersively.
   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

3. (transitive, computing, computer security) 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

Derived terms

• say it, don't spray it
• sprayable

Translations

to project a liquid in a disperse manner

• Finnish: suihkuttaa (fi), sumuttaa (fi)
• French: pulvériser (fr), vaporiser (fr), asperger (fr)
• German: versprühen, zerstäuben (de)
• Greek: ψεκάζω (el) ‎(psekázo), ραντίζω (el) ‎(rantízo)
• Malay:

  Rumi: sembur

  Jawi: سمبور

• Polish: rozpylać impf, rozpylić pf, opryskiwać (pl) impf, opryskać pf
• Portuguese: borrifar (pt)
• Quechua: ch'allay
• Russian: распыля́ть (ru) impf ‎(raspyljátʹ), распыли́ть (ru) pf ‎(raspylítʹ), разбры́згивать (ru) impf ‎(razbrýzgivatʹ), разбры́згать (ru) pf ‎(razbrýzgatʹ)
• Spanish: atomizar (es), difundir (es), pulverizar (es)
• Vietnamese: phun (vi), xịt (vi)

to project many small items dispersively

• Finnish: levittää (fi)

• French: pulvériser (fr)

Anagrams

• prays, raspy

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Finnish

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: spray
• IPA^(key): /ˈsprei̯/

Noun

spray

1. spray (device for spraying)

Declension

Inflection of spray (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		spray	sprayt
genitive		sprayn	sprayiden sprayitten
partitive		sprayta	sprayita
illative		sprayhin sprayhyn	sprayihin
		singular	plural
nominative		spray	sprayt
accusative	nom.	spray	sprayt
	gen.	sprayn
genitive		sprayn	sprayiden sprayitten
partitive		sprayta	sprayita
inessive		sprayssa	sprayissa
elative		spraysta	sprayista
illative		sprayhin sprayhyn	sprayihin
adessive		spraylla	sprayilla
ablative		spraylta	sprayilta
allative		spraylle	sprayille
essive		sprayna	sprayina
translative		sprayksi	sprayiksi
instructive		—	sprayin
abessive		spraytta	sprayitta
comitative		—	sprayineen

Inflection of spray (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		spray	sprayt
genitive		sprayn	sprayiden sprayitten
partitive		spraytä	sprayitä
illative		sprayhin sprayhyn	sprayihin
		singular	plural
nominative		spray	sprayt
accusative	nom.	spray	sprayt
	gen.	sprayn
genitive		sprayn	sprayiden sprayitten
partitive		spraytä	sprayitä
inessive		sprayssä	sprayissä
elative		spraystä	sprayistä
illative		sprayhin sprayhyn	sprayihin
adessive		sprayllä	sprayillä
ablative		sprayltä	sprayiltä
allative		spraylle	sprayille
essive		spraynä	sprayinä
translative		sprayksi	sprayiksi
instructive		—	sprayin
abessive		sprayttä	sprayittä
comitative		—	sprayineen

Usage notes

• Many of the inflected forms, especially the plurals, are somewhat awkward. Therefore, it may be advisable to use appropriate synonyms for these cases, such as spraypullo, spraytölkki, suihke, suihkepullo.

Synonyms

• suihke
• suihkepullo

Derived terms

• spreijata

Compounds

• spraydeodorantti
• spraymaalata
• spraymaali
• spraypullo
• spraytölkki

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English spray, from Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen ‎(“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną ‎(“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- ‎(“to sow, scatter”)

Noun

spray m (plural sprays)

1. spray; atomizer (pressurised container with a nozzle that lets out a spray)
2. spray (fine, gentle, disperse mist of liquid)

Synonyms

• (atomizer): borrifador, atomizador, esprei, aerossol, pulverizador
• (fine mist): borrifo, esprei

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Spanish

Noun

spray m ‎(plural sprays)

1. spray