Dab vs Spray - What's the difference?
dab | spray |
To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
* S. Sharp
To apply a substance in this way.
To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
* Sir T. More
To apply
A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
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(AAVE) A soft, playful given in greeting or approval.
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A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
(chiefly, in the plural, dated, British) Fingerprint.
A small amount of .
With a dab, or sudden contact.
One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
* Goldsmith
A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially ? a flounder.
(US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus .
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
A small branch of flowers or berries.
* Dryden
A collective body of small branches.
* Spenser
A pressurized container; an atomizer.
Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
(medicine) 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.
(metalworking) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
(metalworking) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
To project a liquid in a dispersive manner.
(figurative) To project many small items dispersively.
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As nouns the difference between dab and spray
is that dab is baptism (christian sacrament with water) while spray is spray.dab
English
(wikipedia dab)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(dabb)- I dabbed my face with a towel.
- A sore should only by dabbing it over with fine lint.
- He dabbed moisturizing liquid on his face.
- to dab him in the neck
Noun
(en noun)- page 197: I step closer to Profit and draw in a deep, steadying breath while the brothers exchange dabs . “What's up, fam? I see you finally made it.”
Coordinate terms
* fistbump, high fiveAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
Perhaps corrupted from adept.Noun
(en noun)- One excels at a plan or the title page, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dab handEtymology 3
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)References
* Oxford English Dictionary (1989)Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.
- The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.
- The painted birds, companions of the spring, / Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing.
- The tree has a beautiful spray .
- And from the trees did lop the needless spray .
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Derived terms
* body spray * bug spray * capiscum spray * cooking spray * feather spray * fly spray * hair spray * pepper spray * spray bottle * spray can * spray condenser * spray drain * spray gun * spray paint * vanishing sprayVerb
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- to spray the heap of a target process