Sild vs Spray - What's the difference?

sild | spray |

As nouns the difference between sild and spray

is that sild is herring while spray is spray.

sild

English

Noun

Any young herring (other than a sprat), especially if canned and processed in Scandinavia for sale as a sardine.

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spray

English

Noun

(en noun)

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.

A small branch of flowers or berries.

The bridesmaid carried a spray of lily-of-the-valley.

* Dryden

The painted birds, companions of the spring, / Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing.

A collective body of small branches.

The tree has a beautiful spray .

* Spenser

And from the trees did lop the needless spray .

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.

(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 spray

Verb

To project a liquid in a dispersive manner.

(figurative) To project many small items dispersively.

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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

Derived terms

* * sprayable

Anagrams

* prays, raspy ----