Spray vs Butter - What's the difference?
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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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(uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
(countable, obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
(uncountable) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it ).
To spread butter on.
to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
As nouns the difference between spray and butter
is that spray is a fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid while butter is a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).As verbs the difference between spray and butter
is that spray is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To project a liquid in a dispersive manner while butter is to spread butter on.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
Derived terms
* * sprayableAnagrams
* prays, raspy ----butter
English
(wikipedia butter)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- butter of antimony
- peanut butter
Derived terms
* almond-butter * apple butter * as if butter would not melt in one's mouth * bean-butter * body butter * bog-butter * brandy butter * bread and butter * bread buttered on both sides * butteraceous * butter-ale * butter-and-egg man * butter and eggs, butter-and-eggs * butter and tallow tree * butter-ball, butterball * butter-back * butter-badger * butter-bag * butter-bake * butter-barrel * butter-basher * butter bean * butter-bird * butter-bitten * butter-boat * butterbore * butter-bowzy * butter-box * butter-boy * butterbread * butter brickle * butterbur * butter-bush * butter-cake * butterchurn * butter clam * butter cloth * butter color, butter colour * butter-cooler * butter cream * butter cross * buttercup * butter curler * butter-cutter * butter dish, butter-dish * butter dock, butter-dock * butter-duck * butter-factor * butter fat, butter-fat, butterfat * butter-fingered, butterfingered * butter-fingers, butterfingers * butter-fish, butterfish * butter-flip * butter-flower * butter icing * butterie * butterine * butterish * butter-jags * butter knife, butter-knife * butter-lamp * butter-leaves * butterless * butter letter * butter-man * butter-mark * butter-milk, buttermilk * butter-mold, butter-mould * butter-mouth * butter muslin * butter-nut, butternut * butter of almonds * butter of antimony * butter of arsenic * butter of bismuth * butter of cacao * butter of mace * butter of tin * butter of wax * butter of zinc * butter oil * butter paper * butter-pat * butter-pear * butter-plate * butter-print * butter-queen * butter-rigged * butter-root * butter salt * butter scoop * butterscot, butter-scotch, butterscotch * butter-slide, butterslide * butter spade * butter-spreader * butter stamp * butter-stick * butter substitute * butter tart * butter-toast * butter tongs * butter-tooth * butter-toothed * butter-tree * butter trier * butter-weed, butterweed * butter week * butter-weight * butter-whore * butter-wife * butter-woman * butter-worker * butter-working * butterwort * buttery * butter yellow * cacao butter * clarified butter * cocoa butter * coconut butter * cocum butter, kokum butter * dika-butter * drawn butter * duck butter * fairy butter, fairy's butter * Galam butter * gren butter * mahwa-butter * make butter and cheese of * May butter * melted butter * nut butter * palm-butter * peanut butter * process butter * renovated butter * rock butter * rum butter * shea butter * sugar-butter sauce * vegetable butter * witches' butterVerb
(en verb)- Butter the toast.
- (Johnson)
