Spray
[spreɪ] or [spre]
Definition
(noun.) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage.
(noun.) a jet of vapor.
(noun.) a quantity of small objects flying through the air; 'a spray of bullets'.
(noun.) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying.
(noun.) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall.
(verb.) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets; 'spray water on someone'; 'spray paint on the wall'.
(verb.) cover by spraying with a liquid; 'spray the wall with paint'.
(verb.) be discharged in sprays of liquid; 'Water sprayed all over the floor'.
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Definition
(n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
(n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
(n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
(n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
(v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
(v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
(v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
(v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
(v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Twig, shoot, sprig.[2]. Foam, froth, spume.
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Definition
n. a small shoot of a tree.—adj. Spray′ey branching.
n. small particles of water driven by the wind as from the top of waves &c.—adj. Spray′ey consisting of spray.
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Examples
- Simultaneously the little boat spun around and shot out toward the Gulf Stream like an agitated and very erratic rocket, flinging great sheets of spray high into the air as it sped. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I lay upon my face and peered over with the spray spouting up all around me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave its tread upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- All along, and among, and above these crags dash and flash, sweep and leap, swells, wreaths, drifts of snowy spray. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What to do we knew not --the breakers here, there, everywhere, encompassed us--they roared, and dashed, and flung their hated spray in our faces. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Fear drove many on deck that were used to avoiding the night winds and the spray. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The stream showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of the falling water, the spray from the dam was blowing in the wind. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These lumps are cut to suitable size, and are then ground and washed in the machine shown in Fig. 161, water and steam being sprayed on the rubber during the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The long sprays of the hawthorns, shooting out before them, served as a screen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sheeted sprays drenched the decks like rain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Sprays of water show that the fork is in motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Spraying trees by means of a compression pump. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The spraying of trees (Fig. 143), formerly done slowly and laboriously, is now a relatively simple matter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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