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Sprag vs Spray - What's the difference?

sprag | spray |

As nouns the difference between sprag and spray

is that sprag is a billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop while spray is a fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

As verbs the difference between sprag and spray

is that sprag is to check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel while spray is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To project a liquid in a dispersive manner.

As an adjective sprag

is alternative form of lang=en.

sprag

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * Shakespeare
    • A good sprag memory.

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop.
  • * 1956 , United States Department of the Army, United States Department of the Air Force, Principles of Automotive Vehicles , Technical Manual 9-8000, page 325,
    • A sprag' (fig. 349) is a steel block so shaped as to act as a wedge in the complete assembly. In the '''sprag''' unit under discussion, there are 42 ' sprags assembled into an outer race and held in place by two energizing springs (fig. 350).
  • * 1981 , (US) Departments of the Army and Air Force, Maintenance: Direct Support, and General Support Level , Technical Manual 9-2520-246-34-1, page 2-201,
    • When checking sprags', anvil and spindle ends of micrometer and flat back of ' sprag must all rest on a flat surface as shown in view A.
    Since wear on all sprags' in any one '''sprag''' unit will be the same, it is only necessary to check 5 ' sprags in each assembly.
  • * 2008 , Cliff Ruggles, GM Automatic Overdrive Transmission Builder's and Swapper's Guide , page 52,
    • The sprag' should still be taken apart for visual inspection of the components. I have seen '''sprags''' that still functioned correctly, but when taken apart, the spring cage that holds the ' sprag elements was completely destroyed.
  • * 2009 , Jack Erjavec, Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach , Cengage Learning, page 1192,
    • A one-way sprag' clutch ('''figure 40-36''') consists of a hub and a drum separated by figure-eight-shaped metal pieces called '''sprags'''. The ' sprags are shaped this way so they can lock between the races when a race is turned in one direction only.
    Derived terms
    * sprag clutch

    Verb

    (spragg)
  • To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
  • To prop or sustain with a sprag.

    • Etymology 3

    Compare Icelandic (spraka)? a small flounder.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young salmon.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • 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 ----