Meaning of Spray | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
   countable, uncountable
2. A small branch of flowers or berries.
   countable
3. Something resembling a spray of liquid.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
4. A collective body of small branches.
   countable
5. A pressurized container; an atomizer.
   countable
6. Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
   uncountable
7. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
   countable
8. An orchard.
   countable, obsolete
9. 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.
   countable
10. An ornament or design that resembles a branch.
    countable
11. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
    countable
12. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
    countable
13. 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.
    countable
14. A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure.
    Australia, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”

“A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut. The café reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside.”

“Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.”

“This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.”

“On match days he could give a good spray, and in many ways he was an old-fashioned coach, having learned a lot of his approach from Ron Barassi.”

“Expectations of what they will put up with have changed and a big spray probably doesn't have the effect it used to have. It certainly worked for me, I would get really aggressive and get fired up 'cause it's a motivational device they used.”

“He could give a bloody good spray, Bricey,' Cook says. 'He'd be frothing at the mouth after he'd finished.”

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

“O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy ſpray / Warbleſt at eve, when all the woods are ſtill, / Thou with freſh hope the lover’s heart doſt fill, / While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.”

“The painted Birds, Companions of the Spring, / Hopping from Spray to Spray, were heard to ſing ; / Both Eyes and Ears receiv’d a like Delight, / Enchanting Muſick, and a charming Sight.”

“The tree has a beautiful spray.”

“A blisful flour, owt of this spray schal springe ; / The fruyt þer-of schal be ful precïous ; / A causë haue [we] for to ioye & synge, / In honure of þat maidë gracïous, / That gret comfort schal cause[n] vnto vs ; / ffor now schal faste oure company encrees, / And god with man schal makë smallë pees.”

A blissful flower out will spring out of this spray; / Its fruit shall be very precious; / We have cause for joy and song, / In honour of that gracious maid, / Who will make us very comfortable; / for now our company will grow quickly, / And man will make peace with God.

“And from the Trees did lop the needless Spray;”

“Gret fur he made þer aniȝt of wode & of sprai.”

There, at night, he made a great box out of wood and spray.

“Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn, / Dark, benighted, travel-worn, / Over many a tangled spray, / All heart-broke I heard her say”

“The pea, being a tendrilled climber, whenever it is to be cultivated to the greatest advantage, ought to be supported by pea sticks, which are branches of trees or shrubs well furnished with spray, and of lengths suited to the height to which the plants grow.”

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