spray

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. countable,uncountable
    — The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
  2. A small branch of flowers or berries. countable
    — The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.
  3. Something resembling a spray of liquid. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
  4. A collective body of small branches. countable
    — The tree has a beautiful spray.
    A blissful flower out will spring out of this spray; / Its fruit shall be very precious; / We have cause for joy and song, / In honour of that gracious maid, / Who will make us very comfortable; / for now our company will grow quickly, / And man will make peace with God.
  5. A pressurized container; an atomizer. countable
  6. Branches and twigs collectively; foliage. uncountable
    — Gret fur he made þer aniȝt of wode & of sprai.
    There, at night, he made a great box out of wood and spray.
  7. Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. countable
  8. An orchard. countable,obsolete
  9. An ornament or design that resembles a branch. countable
  10. 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. countable
  11. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold. countable
  12. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. countable
  13. The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit. countable
    — This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
  14. A loud scolding or reprimand, usually delivered by a sports coach or similar figure. Australia,countable,uncountable
    — On match days he could give a good spray, and in many ways he was an old-fashioned coach, having learned a lot of his approach from Ron Barassi.
动词 v.
  1. To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. transitive
    — The firemen sprayed the house.
  2. To project in a dispersive manner. ergative
    — Spray some ointment on that scratch.
  3. To project many small items dispersively. figuratively,transitive
    — The sprawl of sheds like Magna Parks 1 to 3 are a particularly vivid measure, because they host the final moment of relative stasis for millions of products that are then sprayed out to homes in every direction.
  4. To urinate in order to mark territory. intransitive
  5. 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. transitive
    — to spray the heap of a target process
  6. To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance. transitive
    — Kevin McLeod sprayed the ball across from the left flank where a raging Ainsworth met it on the volley from 25 yards out, crashing the ball into the roof of the net.
  7. To kick (a ball) poorly and in an unintended direction. transitive
    — Despite a goal to Vin Gardiner for Carlton, courtesy of an infringement, the Blues squandered many opportunities in attack. They sprayed the ball with their field kicking, and in their path toward goal.
  8. To give unwanted advice. derogatory,slang
  9. To shower guests dancing at a function with money. Nigeria
    — “If a celebrator is dancing and you spray him/her, you may go to jail from the party venue because the law enforcement agents will be there, waiting to arrest you.

词形变化

sprays plural sprays present,singular,third-person spraying participle,present sprayed participle,past sprayed past sprays plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”).
Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).
词源 2
From Middle English spray, from Old English *spræġ, sprei (found in place names such as that of Spreyton, England), of unknown origin. Compare English sprig (“shoot, twig”).
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