Splay vs Spray - What's the difference?
splay | spray |
To display; to spread.
* Gascoigne
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
* M. Arnold
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
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 verbs the difference between splay and spray
is that splay is to display; to spread while spray is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To project a liquid in a dispersive manner.As nouns the difference between splay and spray
is that splay is a slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them while spray is a fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.As an adjective splay
is displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.splay
English
Verb
(en verb)- our ensigns splayed
Adjective
(en adjective)- Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* *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