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spray

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–noun
1. water or other liquid broken up into minute droplets and blown, ejected into, or falling through the air.
2. a jet of fine particles of liquid, as medicine, insecticide, paint, perfume, etc., discharged from an atomizer or other device for direct application to a surface.
3. a liquid to be discharged or applied in such a jet.
4. an apparatus or device for discharging such a liquid.
5. a quantity of small objects, flying or discharged through the air: a spray of shattered glass.
–verb (used with object)
6. to scatter in the form of fine particles.
7. to apply as a spray: to spray an insecticide on plants.
8. to sprinkle or treat with a spray: to spray plants with insecticide.
9. to direct a spray of particles, missiles, etc., upon: to spray the mob with tear gas.
–verb (used without object)
10. to scatter spray; discharge a spray: The hose sprayed over the flowers.
11. to issue as spray: The water sprayed from the hose.
Origin:
1615–25; < earlier D spraeyen; c. MHG spræjen

Related forms:
spray⋅a⋅ble, adjective
spray⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
sprayer, noun
sprayless, adjective
spraylike, adjective
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spray 1   (sprā)   
n.  

  1. Water or other liquid moving in a mass of dispersed droplets, as from a wave.

    1. A fine jet of liquid discharged from a pressurized container.

    2. A pressurized container; an atomizer.

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

v.   sprayed, spray·ing, sprays

v.   tr.

  1. To disperse (a liquid) in a mass or jet of droplets.

  2. To apply a spray to (a surface).

v.   intr.

  1. To discharge sprays of liquid.

  2. To move in the form of a spray.


[From obsolete spray, to sprinkle, from Middle Dutch sprayen.]
spray'er n.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: spray
Function: transitive verb
: to disperse among a number of recipients spray trust income —W. M. McGovern, Junior et al.>
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Main Entry: 2spray
Function: intransitive verb
: to emit a stream or spray of urine spray to mark its territory>
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spray (sprā)
n.
A fine jet of liquid discharged from a pressurized container. v. sprayed, spray·ing, sprays
To disperse a liquid in a jet of droplets.

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