Definition of Spray

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Definition of Spray

Spray

A small shoot or branch; a twig.

A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.

A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in 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.

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.

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.

An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.

To let fall in the form of spray.

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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Spray Quotations

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

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
Reggie Jackson

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.
Jeremy Rifkin

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

I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.
Lisa Snowdon

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.
Nicolette Sheridan

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
Joshua Slocum

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
Joshua Slocum

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
Joshua Slocum

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
Colleen Atwood

Spray Translations

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

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