Mist vs Spray - What's the difference?
mist | spray |
(uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
(countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
(figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
* Dryden
To form mist.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
To cover with a mist.
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
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 mist and spray
is that mist is water or other liquid finely suspended in air while spray is a fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.As verbs the difference between mist and spray
is that mist is to form mist while spray is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To project a liquid in a dispersive manner.mist
English
(wikipedia mist)Noun
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
- There was an oily mist on the lens .
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
Derived terms
* misty * mists of time * red mistVerb
(en verb)- It's misting this morning.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- The lens was misted .
- (Shakespeare)
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
Derived terms
* mist overAnagrams
* * ----spray
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 .
- (Knight)
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