sprays
/spɹeɪz/ · noun
Meaning
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
- A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- 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.
- A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
- To project in a dispersive manner.
- To project many small items dispersively.
- To urinate in order to mark territory.
- 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.
- A small branch of flowers or berries.
- A collective body of small branches.
- Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
- An orchard.
- An ornament or design that resembles a branch.
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