Spray

/spɹeɪ/ noun verb

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

What it means

  1. (noun) A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. “The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”
  2. (noun) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
  3. (noun) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
  4. (noun) 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.
  5. (noun) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
  6. (noun) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
  7. (noun) 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.
  8. (verb) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. “The firemen sprayed the house.”
  9. (verb) To project in a dispersive manner. “Spray some ointment on that scratch.”
  10. (verb) To project many small items dispersively.
  11. (verb) To urinate in order to mark territory.
  12. (verb) 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. “to spray the heap of a target process”

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Letter analysis

  • Spray contains 5 letters: 1 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
  • It uses 5 unique letters.
  • Estimated syllable count: 1.
  • Scrabble-style letter score: 10.

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What does Spray mean?

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

What are the anagrams of Spray?

Valid anagrams: prays, raspy.

How many letters are in Spray?

Spray has 5 letters.

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