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Volley vs Spray - What's the difference?

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Volley is a related term of spray.


As nouns the difference between volley and spray

is that volley is the simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired while spray is spray.

As a verb volley

is to fire a volley of shots.

volley

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired
  • * Milton
    • Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew.
  • * Byron
    • Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
  • A burst or emission of many things at once.
    • a volley of words
    (Ben Jonson)
    (Alexander Pope)
  • (sports) The flight of a ball just before it bounces
  • (sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=John Sinnott , title=Aston Villa 2–0 Wigan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley .}}
  • (cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fire a volley of shots
  • (sports) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=May 14 , author=Peter Scrivener , title=Sunderland 1–3 Wolverhampton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Boudewijn Zenden hit the post from 25 yards for the home side before Jody Craddock volleyed Wolves ahead from 10 yards against his former club. }}
  • To be fired in a volley
  • (sports) To make a volley

    • Derived terms

    * half volley * scorpion volley * volleyball

    Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----

    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 ----