Spray vs Sprout - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between spray and sprout is that spray is spray while sprout is a new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts. As a verb sprout is .
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.
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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.
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(figurative) To project many small items dispersively.
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, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted
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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
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* sprayable
Anagrams
* prays, raspy
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sprout Noun
( en noun)
A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
A child.
A Brussels sprout.
An edible germinated seed.
Verb
Related terms
* brussel sprout
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