to spray

Definition of to spray in English English dictionary: {n} the drops of water driven from a wave; A small shoot or branch; a twig; scatter in a mass or jet of droplets; "spray water on someone"; "spray paint on the wall"; To let fall in the form of spray; be discharged in sprays of liquid; "Water sprayed all over the floor; A spray of flowers or leaves is a number of flowers or leaves on one stem or branch. a small spray of freesias; A moving mass of dispersed liquid droplets or heat softened particles; a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray; Drying The production of a dried product by the atomization of a liquid into a heated chamber which evaporates the liquid The dried particles fall to the bottom of the vessel and are collected; hitting the ball wildly in all directions with no consistency Example: I guess it was Murphy's law, the day I was putting my best I was spraying my full shots everywhere; When someone sprays against insects, they cover plants or crops with a chemical which prevents insects feeding on them. He doesn't spray against pests or diseases Confine the use of insecticides to the evening and do not spray plants that are in flower Because of the immunity of the immature insects, it's important to spray regularly; cover by spraying with a liquid; "spray the wall with paint"; An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer; A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray; branchlet with foliage; water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall; {i} liquid which falls in small droplets; small flowering branch; 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; Method of application in which the paint is broken up into a fine mist and directed to the surface under pressure Specific types of spray equipment are: aerosol, airless, and air assisted; If you spray a liquid somewhere or if it sprays somewhere, drops of the liquid cover a place or shower someone. A sprayer hooked to a tractor can spray five gallons onto ten acres Two inmates hurled slates at prison officers spraying them with a hose Drops of blood sprayed across the room; A spray is a piece of equipment for spraying water or another liquid, especially over growing plants; A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold; a jet of vapor; flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage a jet of vapor a quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets"; A spray is a liquid kept under pressure in a can or other container, which you can force out in very small drops. hair spray. a can of insect spray; (also known as actuation) See actuation; A fine, gentle, disperse mist of liquid; If something is sprayed, it is painted using paint kept under pressure in a container. The bare metal was sprayed with several coats of primer; flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage; A dispersion of a liquid in a gas (aerosol of liquid droplets) in which the droplets have diameters greater than 10 micrometres For additional definitions and explanations, more complete dictionaries are available See; If a lot of small things spray somewhere or if something sprays them, they are scattered somewhere with a lot of force. A shower of mustard seeds sprayed into the air and fell into the grass The intensity of the blaze shattered windows, spraying glass on the streets below The bullet slammed into the ceiling, spraying them with bits of plaster; To shoot (videotape) something fast "Spray the scene and feed it back ASAP!" said the assignment editor to the annoyed photographer; A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches; hitting the ball wildly in all directions with no consistency Example: "I played well n Friday but Mark was spraying the ball all over the place "; Luminous material ejected from a solar flare with sufficient velocity to escape the Sun (675 km/s) Sprays are usually seen in H alpha with complex and rapidly changing form There is little evidence that sprays are focused by magnetic fields Compare surge; a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying; a quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets"; {f} disperse a liquid in small droplets; coat a surface with droplets of a liquid; 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; To project a liquid in a disperse manner; a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall scatter in a mass or jet of droplets; "spray water on someone"; "spray paint on the wall"; A small branch of flowers or berries; Spray is a lot of small drops of water which are being thrown into the air. The moon was casting a rainbow through the spray from the waterfall; be discharged in sprays of liquid; "Water sprayed all over the floor"; If someone sprays bullets somewhere, they fire a lot of bullets at a group of people or things. He ran to the top of the building spraying bullets into shoppers below The army lorries were sprayed with machine gun fire from guerrillas in the woods; A flowering stem on which lateral flowers are allowed to develop; 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; Cluster of flowers or flowerheads arranged on a single, branched stem