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Definition of Spray

Spray

  1. A small shoot or branch; a twig.
  2. A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
  3. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
  4. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
  8. To let fall in the form of spray.
  9. 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.

Spray Quotations

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill Hicks

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Doug Coupland

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia

If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp.
Alison Sweeney

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
Charles Schumer
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Spray Translations

spray in French is embrun
spray in Italian is raggio, nebulizzare
spray in Spanish is chispear, spray, rociar

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