Meaning of "spray" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SPRAY

From Middle Dutch sprāien; related to Middle High German spræjen.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SPRAY

spray  [spreɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPRAY

Spray is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb spray in English.

WHAT DOES SPRAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spray

Spray can refer to: ▪ Spray ▪ Aerosol spray ▪ Blood spray ▪ Road/tire spray, kicked up from a vehicle tire ▪ Snow spray, a spray that creates artificial snow fall ▪ Spray, a type of vector field in differential geometry defined on the tangent bundle of a manifold ▪ Spray, a British synthpop band ▪ Spray, a 2008 video game for Nintendo's Wii video game console ▪ Spray, North Carolina, a former mill town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, now part of Eden, North Carolina ▪ Spray, the ship used in Joshua Slocum's solo circumnavigation in the late 19th century ▪ Spray Network, a Swedish Internet company ▪ USS Spray, a trawler in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919 ▪ USS Spray, a motorboat ordered delivered to the United States Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel but never taken over by the Navy Spraying may refer to: ▪ The creation of a spray ▪ The use of a sprayer ▪ The use of a...

Definition of spray in the English dictionary

The first definition of spray in the dictionary is fine particles of a liquid. Other definition of spray is a liquid, such as perfume, paint, etc, designed to be discharged from an aerosol or atomizer. Spray is also the aerosol or atomizer itself.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPRAY

PRESENT

Present

I spray

you spray

he/she/it sprays

we spray

you spray

they spray

Present continuous

I am spraying

you are spraying

he/she/it is spraying

we are spraying

you are spraying

they are spraying

Present perfect

I have sprayed

you have sprayed

he/she/it has sprayed

we have sprayed

you have sprayed

they have sprayed

Present perfect continuous

I have been spraying

you have been spraying

he/she/it has been spraying

we have been spraying

you have been spraying

they have been spraying

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sprayed

you sprayed

he/she/it sprayed

we sprayed

you sprayed

they sprayed

Past continuous

I was spraying

you were spraying

he/she/it was spraying

we were spraying

you were spraying

they were spraying

Past perfect

I had sprayed

you had sprayed

he/she/it had sprayed

we had sprayed

you had sprayed

they had sprayed

Past perfect continuous

I had been spraying

you had been spraying

he/she/it had been spraying

we had been spraying

you had been spraying

they had been spraying

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will spray

you will spray

he/she/it will spray

we will spray

you will spray

they will spray

Future continuous

I will be spraying

you will be spraying

he/she/it will be spraying

we will be spraying

you will be spraying

they will be spraying

Future perfect

I will have sprayed

you will have sprayed

he/she/it will have sprayed

we will have sprayed

you will have sprayed

they will have sprayed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been spraying

you will have been spraying

he/she/it will have been spraying

we will have been spraying

you will have been spraying

they will have been spraying

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would spray

you would spray

he/she/it would spray

we would spray

you would spray

they would spray

Conditional continuous

I would be spraying

you would be spraying

he/she/it would be spraying

we would be spraying

you would be spraying

they would be spraying

Conditional perfect

I would have spray

you would have spray

he/she/it would have spray

we would have spray

you would have spray

they would have spray

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been spraying

you would have been spraying

he/she/it would have been spraying

we would have been spraying

you would have been spraying

they would have been spraying

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you spray
we let´s spray
you spray

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to spray

Past participle

sprayed

Present Participle

spraying

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SPRAY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «spray» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of spray

aerosol · atomizer · bough · boutonniere · branch · buttonhole · corsage · diffuse · drizzle · moisture · nebulizer · scatter · shoot · shower · spindrift · spoondrift · sprig · sprinkle · sprinkler

TRANSLATION OF SPRAY

Find out the translation of spray to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of spray from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spray» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 喷雾
• Translator English - Spanish: pulverizador
• English: spray
• Translator English - Hindi: स्प्रे
• Translator English - Arabic: رَشَّاش
• Translator English - Russian: мелкие брызги
• Translator English - Portuguese: borrifo
• Translator English - Bengali: স্প্রে
• Translator English - French: vaporisateur
• Translator English - Malay: Semburan
• Translator English - German: Spray
• Translator English - Japanese: 噴霧
• Translator English - Korean: 분무
• Translator English - Javanese: Semprotan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bụi nước
• Translator English - Tamil: தெளிப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: स्प्रे
• Translator English - Turkish: sprey
• Translator English - Italian: spruzzo
• Translator English - Polish: mgiełka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: спрей
• Translator English - Romanian: strop
• Translator English - Greek: σπρέι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: spuit
• Translator English - Swedish: sprej
• Translator English - Norwegian: spray

10 QUOTES WITH «SPRAY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spray.

1

Colleen Atwood

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

2

Johanna Braddy

My must-have hair products are Phyto silk spray and Kusco-Murphy setting lotion.

3

Carly Chaikin

I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.

4

Bradley Chicho

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

5

Sam Claflin

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

6

Jim Dale

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.

7

Domenico Dolce

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

8

Josh Duhamel

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

9

Scilla Elworthy

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

10

Joanna Garcia

I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that show. I was so intimidated doing that show because I thought, 'Oh my gosh, those people are so young and gorgeous, and I'm a million years old, and I need a spray tan, and I'm going to be wearing all these fabulous clothes.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRAY»

Discover the use of spray in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spray and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Handbook of Thermal Spray Technology

It will serve as an introduction and guide for those new to thermal spray, and as a reference for specifiers and users of thermal spray coatings and thermal spray experts. Coverage encompasses basics of th

Joseph R. Davis, 2004

Spray

At home with the wind and the sea, Justin sails his dory across the harbor and suddenly finds himself in the company of the legendary Captain Slocum aboard the Spray.

Robert J. Blake, 1996

Spray

Five teenagers enrol in a play assassination game in a fictional city: Shell, a student, with a perky exterior hiding a vulnerable need to prove herself, falls for Mac when required to assassinate him; Mac a student drop out, resentful of ...

Harry Edge, 2010

Cold Spray Technology

The topic of this book is Cold Spray technology.

Anatolii Papyrin, Vladimir Kosarev, Sergey Klinkov, 2006

The Science and Engineering of Thermal Spray Coatings

This text describes the state of art o f this technology in a logical way: starting from the feedstock used to spray and the methods of manufacturing, u to the present and potential future industrial applications of sprayed coatings.

Lech Pawlowski, 2008

Monster Spray

This is an eLIVE book, meaning each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book.

Staci Williams, 2009

Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley

Spray examines his work from its early development through abstraction, the gradual move to figurative iconography, into figuration and landscape.

Ashley Crawford, Ray Edgar, 2002

Modeling Engine Spray and Combustion Processes

The research necessary for this book was carried out during my employment as a postdoctoral scientist at the Institute of Technical Combustion (ITV) at the Uni versity of Hannover, Germany and at the Engine Research Center (ERC) at the ...

Gunnar Stiesch, 2003

Spray Simulation: Modeling and Numerical Simulation of ...

This book provides an introduction to the various modelling and simulation techniques employed in spray forming, and shows how they are applied in process analysis and development.

Udo Fritsching, 2004

Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag

This is the band's story from the inside, drawing upon exclusive interviews with the group's members, their contemporaries and the groups who were inspired by them.

Steve Chick, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPRAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spray is used in the context of the following news items.

White officer pepper-sprays crowd at Black Lives Matter summit in …

A transit police officer has pepper-sprayed a crowd in Cleveland protesting the arrest of a ... One of the officers turned and began pepper-spraying the crowd. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Man dies after getting pepper-sprayed by police

Police pepper-sprayed Ware, who continued struggling but was eventually handcuffed, Dunn said. But while officers were walking out of the woods with him, ... «CNN, Jul 15»

6 Occupy Wall Street plaintiffs settle pepper-spray lawsuits

Five Occupy Wall Street protesters pepper-sprayed by an NYPD commander in a notorious incident filmed and publicized on the Internet in 2011 have settled ... «Newsday, Jul 15»

Ohio judge lets pepper-spray victim fire back on assailant Diamond …

A woman accused of pepper-spraying a Burger King employee in the face got a taste of her own medicine this week when an Ohio judge took a literal approach ... «Daily Mail, May 15»

Police: Man pepper-sprays himself during robbery attempt

The would-be robber started spraying pepper spray in an effort to take down employees, then walked into the cloud of pepper spray in front of him. Police say ... «New York Post, May 15»

FAA Approves Yamaha RMAX Drone To Spray Crops In U.S.

Yamaha's crop dusting drone gets approval to operate in the U.S. The FAA has imposed 28 limits and conditions on the Yamaha RMAX, as the country slowly ... «Tech Times, May 15»

Suspect tried to hide by spray-painting his face, police say

(CNN) A suspected car thief in Madera, California, spray-painted his face in an ... "He spray-painted his face black and attempted to hide against a white wall in ... «CNN, Mar 15»

Crowd, police clash outside mall

Toledo police early today used pepper spray on a crowd that had gathered outside the Franklin Park Mall for a chance to buy a Nike Air Jordan shoe later this ... «Toledo Blade, Dec 14»

Vaccine spray may not work for swine flu in kids

The nasal spray version of the flu vaccine did not protect young children against swine flu last winter and might not work again this year, health officials said ... «Fox News, Nov 14»

Cashier sprays would-be robber with bug spray until she runs away

She started spraying the robber with Raid and kept spraying until the woman ran away. Police haven't found the would-be robber, but Miller is pretty sure she ... «WGN-TV, Oct 14»