Surf vs Spray - What's the difference?

surf | spray |

As nouns the difference between surf and spray

is that surf is waves that break on an ocean shoreline while spray is spray.

As a verb surf

is to ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.

surf

English

(wikipedia surf)

Noun

(-)

Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

* 1883 ,

...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5

'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.

* {{quote-book

, page=12 , year=1900 , author=Joseph Grinnell , title=Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska citation , passage=It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf .}}

* {{quote-book

, page=248 , year=1941 , author=Raymond Russell Camp , title=Fishing the Surf citation , passage=In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.}}

* {{quote-book

, page=181 , year=1963 , author=Vlad Evanoff , title=Spin Fishing citation , passage=Snook are found in rivers, canals, inlets and along the surf , especially around sand bars, tidal rips, jetties, bridges and piers.}}

(UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.

Derived terms

* surf line * surf rider noun

Verb

(surf)

To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.

To browse the Internet.

Derived terms

* surfer noun

Derived terms

* (ride a wave) surfer, surfing, surfboard * (browse the Internet) silver surfer

Anagrams

* furs English terms with unknown etymologies ----

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 ----